Gene Pitney's Big Sixteen

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Gene Pitney's Big Sixteen
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Compilation album by
Gene Pitney
Released1964
Recorded1962–1964
Genre Pop
Length42:43
Label Musicor
Producer Aaron Schroeder, Wally Gold
Gene Pitney chronology
Gene Pitney Meets the Fair Young Ladies of Folkland
(1964)
Gene Pitney's Big Sixteen
(1964)
Gene Italiano
(1964)
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Gene Pitney's Big Sixteen is a compilation of hits by American singer Gene Pitney, released on the Musicor label in 1964. The album contains a mix of hit singles and album cuts from Pitney's early records.

Contents

Track listing

Side 1

  1. "Ship True Love Goodbye" (Mark Barkan, Neval Nader) – 2:25 (from Gene Pitney Sings Just for You )
  2. "Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa" (Hal David, Burt Bacharach) – 3:00 (from Blue Gene )
  3. "Only Love Can Break a Heart" (David, Bacharach) – 2:49 (from Only Love Can Break a Heart )
  4. "Not Responsible" (Ben Raleigh, Barkan) – 2:31 (from Gene Pitney Sings Just for You)
  5. "Teardrop by Teardrop" (Bob Halley) – 2:19 (from Gene Pitney Sings Just for You)
  6. "Donna Means Heartbreak" (David, Paul Hampton) – 2:23 (from Only Love Can Break a Heart)
  7. "Aladdin's Lamp" (Gene Pitney) – 2:28 (from Gene Pitney Sings Just for You)
  8. "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" (David, Bacharach) – 2:58 (from Only Love Can Break a Heart)

Side 2

  1. "Keep Tellin' Yourself" (Ellie Greenwich, Elmo Glick, Tony Powers) – 2:23 (from Blue Gene)
  2. "Mecca" (John Gluck Jr., Nader) – 2:21 (from Gene Pitney Sings Just for You)
  3. "Town Without Pity" (Dimitri Tiomkin, Ned Washington) – 2:55 (from The Many Sides of Gene Pitney )
  4. "Tower Tall" (Mel Mandel, Norman Sachs) – 3:21 (from Only Love Can Break a Heart)
  5. "Cry Your Eyes Out" (Raleigh, J. Gluck) – 2:04 (from Only Love Can Break a Heart)
  6. "True Love Never Runs Smooth" (David, Bacharach) – 2:26 (from Only Love Can Break a Heart)
  7. "Take Me Tonight" (Aaron Schroeder, Roy Alfred, Wally Gold) – 2:37 (from The Many Sides of Gene Pitney)
  8. "Half Heaven – Half Heartache" (Schroeder, George Goehring, Gold)– 2:43 (from Only Love Can Break a Heart)

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