This is so grand! GENE PITNEY - Town without pity REACTION - First time hearing
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GENE PITNEY - Town without pity REACTION - First time hearing
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Gene deserved so much more attention than he ever got. Not only this song---which is GREAT---but almost everything the guy ever recorded.
I grew up with Gene Pitney and sadly, most people today don't know how great he was.
I know.
One of the greatest songs ever written/arranged/sung. Masterpiece. Undeniable.
Love, love, love Gene! Such a distinctive, emotive voice. In the top 5 of my favorite singers
ths song was used in the soundtrack for the movie Town without Pity, btw the next song you need to do is The man Who shot Liberty Valence! Which is from the soundtrack of the movie The Man who shot liberty Valence LOL
You beat me. love that movie.
The song never made it into the movie. There were timing and logistical issues so the song was released well after the movie was.
He reacted to that song months ago
One of the best voices in rock history
Love this song ❤️😍❤️😍❤️😍❤️
Thanks for reacting to Gene Pitney. He was a favorite of mine back in the day. He had several hits. You might want to give a listen to The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance or 24 Hours from Tulsa. Both big hits for him.
Thank you so much, you're the only one so far that reacted to this, on of my favorite 😍 song.
Yes! Harri, Gene Pitney had a fantastic voice that actually made these fine songs great! This great track was used on a great movie with the same title, TOWN WITH-OUT A PITY! with Kirk Dougles who played an American lawyer in a foreign county, I believe rape was the case... Yes! Harri, Gene Pitney had a great amount of hits and is sadly missed, now the world seems like a town without a PITNEY... Great stuff Harri, love your channel and keep up the great work! signed, Greg the Egg.
Also had a movie made of one of his songs “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance”
Love this song. Gene Pitney had so many greats hits for himself and wrote hits for several others. His voice is so emotionally packed in this song it just mesmerizing. Next 24 Hours to Tulsa.
Great reaction Harri. Thanks Harri and Daniel. Another wonderful choice. Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦
Thanks Mary. 👍🇨🇦🙃
An outstanding movie. Christine Kaufmann was soo, soo beautiful. A great, riviting story too.
Harri, you should make time to watch this sober, disquieting, remorseful movie, you won't be disappointed
Gene Pitney had a big hit in the UK with "24 Hours from Tulsa." While touring there, Andrew Loog Oldham, the Rolling Stones' manager, did some publicity work for Gene and introduced him to the boys. Gene played piano on the "Not Fade Away" sessions and later covered "That Girl Belongs to Yesterday" by Jagger/Richards. Talk about strange bedfellows.
Great song and great voice!
Gene was a great composer for other artists as well as himself. He was hugely popular in the sixties, with many, many big hits.
I was reminded of this song today, and I searched for reactions. Yours is the only one. Thanks Harri! Great reaction!
God bless! 🙏
Searched and can't believe there's only one reaction
"Town Without Pity" was written by composer Dimitri Tiomkin for the 1961 film of the same title, starring Kirk Douglas as a military lawyer tasked with defending American servicemen accused of raping a girl in post war Germany. Billie Holiday passed in 1959, so she could not have covered the song. But it would have been neat to hear her do so. In some other part of the multiverse perhaps. Dimitri Tiomkin was a Russian-born American film composer who received 22 Academy Award nominations during his career, winning four Oscars. He worked with Frank Capra on You Can't Take It With You (1938), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Meet John Doe (1941), and It's a Wonderful Life (1946). He also composed the scores for Duel in the Sun (1946), Strangers on a Train (1951), The Thing from Another World (1951), High Noon (1952), The Big Sky (1952), The High and the Mighty (1954), Dial M for Murder (1954), Giant (1956), Friendly Persuasion (1956), Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957), Wild Is the Wind (1957), The Old Man and the Sea (1958), Rio Bravo (1959), The Unforgiven (1960), and many others I left out. Tiomkin also wrote the song "Wild Is the Wind" originally recorded by Johnny Mathis in 1957 and famously covered by Nina Simone in 1959 and David Bowie in 1976. Check those versions out when you can, it'll be well worth your time.
Fun fact: Gene wrote "Hello Mary Lou," which Rick Nelson had a huge hit with in the same year, 1961. Gene didn't record it himself until the next year. Of course, the song has been covered hundreds of times, making Gene a nice bit of cash in royalties.
One of my all time favorites ❤
I was thinking "would Harri review this song?" Nah.. And, I found it ! It floored me! Harri, you are the man!
Thank you for reacting to Gene Pitney. Wonderful voice and great reaction 👍
I love his song heartbreaker. Best he ever did.
If you haven't yet, please listen to "Half Heaven, Half Heartache." You will be stunned!
Harri, Liberace was a flamboyant pianist. Gene Pitney was a fantastic singer and songwriter. No comparison. 😉🙃👍🇬🇧🤴🇺🇸🇨🇦
Harri you are so right about it sounding ike a James Bond theme - why on earth wasn't Gene asked to do one???????
I'm so happy you listened to this! I used to listen to it on It's 45 a lot! Thanks for sharing this!
"Before this clay and granite planet falls apart" ... I had forgotten how awesome the lyrics of this song are. It's no wonder it was nominated for a 1962 Academy Award for Best Song, losing eventually to "Moon River". Add another great request to the Daniel Volk collection.
Thanks for the nice comment J K. Clare. You have a pretty nice collection of requests too. I always enjoy them. 👍🙃
That my favorite parrrt!
Dude, the world was pig-rich with cinematic/Broadway music around 1961. Can I say three words? West....Side....Story. Four more words: The Sound of Music. I don't know, maybe it was the vacuum left in the wake of Elvis' momentary departure from the chaos he created, when he enlisted in the Army. Everybody scrambling to regain the attention of the public. Anyway, the abundance of fascinating musical ideas in 1961 reminds me of the same (cinematic) glut of 1939.
B.T.W., I too single out that ".....granite planet falls apart....." as a high point of the song. I thought he sang "grey", not clay" though.
A blast from the past 1961. I have the 45 record of this. No auto tune pure talent.
Gene Pitney was an American singer-songwriter & musician in the 60's-70's. He had a lot of great songs such as "(The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance", "Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa", "I'm Gonna Be Strong", "It Hurts To Be In Love", "Half Heaven, Half Heartache", "Mecca" etc. He also wrote the early 1960's hits "Rubber Ball" recorded by "Bobby Vee", "Hello Mary Lou" by "Rick Nelson", "He's A Rebel" by the "Crystals" & "Today's Teardrops" by "Roy Orbison".
Yes! Yes! 💖
Such a wonderful singer with so many hits, personally and for others.Great list of songs.👍✌️🇨🇦
"It hurts to be in Love" is one of his best.
Always loved him!
The Scottish singer Eddi Reader, who was the lead singer in the band Fairground Attraction, did a fantastic cover of this old classic, giving her 'female perspective' on the lyrics! 😲
Great song and the late, great Ronnie Montrose does a brilliant, instrumental cover of this song that is amazing. One of the times I saw him he opened for Journey on that tour, seeing it live was memorable.
Town Without Pity was written for Gene as the title song of the 1961 movie of the same name. Billie Holiday died in 1959.
Absolutely loved this song when it came out.
from Connecticut where we called him the Rockville Rocket
Glad to see someone mention it, Rockville, Vernon, Broad Brook, Manchester, Stafford, Crystal Lake, Somers, Enfield ... everyone was proud of him.
@@982spyder5 entire State. Born in Bridgeport and my older sister would play his records. A true talent and from what i hear a very nice man
I have loved that song by Gene Pitney for many, many years now I am pleased that you found it and liked it. "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" is also brilliant.
I requested "The man who shot Liberty Valance" last year. Check it out. 🙃👍
to me Gene's best song "I'm going to be Strong"
Love me some Gene Pitney music! Check out a couple of tracks he did a bit later in his career, Backstage, and She's A Heartbreaker. Great singer, had a sound like nobody else. This was a movie theme, may be where you got the James Bond feel...
As you know I am a big fan of you Hari. Not surprised that you would dig this.
Gene was a phenomenal singer period.
I played this for my kids and I've no doubt they'll play it for theirs because the lesson is, we all go through this. Teenage angst has been the same throughout the decades.
The song applies today as it did then
Chills.
I think I like his 1962 Acadamy Awards version best.
You should hear him sing It's Over, It's Over!!
In Connecticut he is the "Rockville Rocket" from Rockville CT.
Glad to see someone mention it, Rockville, Vernon, Broad Brook, Manchester, Stafford, Somers, Enfield ... everyone was proud of him.
Also known as the Rockville rocket from Rockville Connecticut was a hit back in the sixties....I like the name of the town matches his vocation.
Glad to see someone mention it, Rockville, Vernon, Broad Brook, Manchester, Stafford, Somers, Enfield ... everyone was proud of Gene.
What is strange about Gene is that while he was still alive he had after his hey day become someone many forgot about. I always loved him throughout my life (starting from a young age as my mum loved him), and over the decades friends would ask what I was listening too. I would say Gene Pitney and most didn't know who he was. Then the new version of of Somethings Gotten Hold of my Heart with Marc Almond came out and suddenly he was known again in the late 80s. I never stopped loving his music from when I was young until now. This is why I so love these reaction videos that bring this talent to the attention of a new audience.
He to me was one of the most underrated artists of all time. I loved him even when it was not particularly cool to love him. Such a distinctive voice.
Gene Pitney also sang in multiple languages at a time when few pop singers did, including iItalian and Hebrew.
One of the best singers in pop history, easily identifiable. Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa my favorite.
Since the song's composer Dmitri Tiomkin wrote a number of film scores, it's no wonder you hear a "Bond"-like quality to the music. Gene Pitney did indeed have a unique voice and style. Sadly, he died in 2006 of a heart attack. He was only 66. What a loss...
Written for a movie of the same name.
The 'Town Without Pity' movie is very good but also brutally sad. His tone on the song matches the movie. Gene Pitney had a very nice career and I was a fan.
OMG Gene Pitney and Dynamo twins 😱
Harri you have to check out the FANTASTIC Instrumental version of this Beautiful song by Ronnie Montrose! YOU’LL LOVE IT! GOD BLESS!✌️😎
I love GP. What a voice!!!
It was a movie soundtrack for the movie of the same name.
Hey Hari, love your channel! You cover a much wider array of styles/artists than most reactors. None of the ones I follow have covered this song! Thank-you.
Would love to hear you listen to Laura Nyro. What a great talent! Not under rated but under appreciated. 4-5 of her earliest songs were covered by major artists of the late 60's and early 70's and became huge hits for them. She wrote these at 16-17 years old! I generally prefer her versions. I hope you look into it and maybe do And When I Die or Wedding Bell Blues. That would be amazing. Just subbed!
Thanks for that.
Gene Pitney is a favorite from the 60s. You’re hearing a slow jazz style popular in those days reminiscent of Frank Sinatra and his contemporaries. While this song is a favorite, please listen to Gene Pitney’s “I’m Gonna Be Strong.” It’s a song portrait of a magnificent voice. It’s top of the list for me.
You need to read the background on Gene Pitney. I remember this hit song being played on the radio when I was a little girl and I'm 73 now. I thought it was haunting and the tune was stuck in my head for a long time! He was doing what he spent most of his life doing..performing..they discovered his body lying on his hotel bed, fully clothed not long after his last performance in Wales. Very satisfying performance he had commented that night..RIP Gene!!
(Well done!)
Try the later Gene Pitney singing with Marc Almond on "Something's Got Ahold of My Heart"
Good one Daniel ! If you watched the movie "Look Who's Talking," this reminds you of Kirstie Alley and John Travolta in the kitchen~Love it!! This one turns the light bulb on in your head ! So many songs rattling around in my head! ✌👍
Yeah.. Remember Look Who's Talking and the funny scene. Thanks for your great comment . 🙃👍🇺🇸🇨🇦🇬🇧🤴
Gene Pitney, not Elvis, was my favourie growing up.
Please react to his song Twenty Four Hours from Tulsa. He recorded some songs by Burt Bachrach. He also started his own record label when he couldn't get a record contract. Amazing.
Gene Pitney/It Hurts to be in Love
Should watch the movie. It's just as sad as the song. It is set in Germany right after world war 2 with American army still there.
Harri 1961 before Bond and after Holliday.
Great request Daniel. Great analysis Harri! This is a marvelous song
Thanks for the comment D. Rice
I just now noticed that Dmitri Tiomkin composed the tune. Tiomkin wrote the scores to dozens of Hollywood productions.
Such a fantastic song. Thanks
Time for another Gene Pitney song please
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence..... both movie theme songs.
sort of sounds like a Gypsy Rose Lee Burlesque !
He would end his live shows with this tune.
You have to react to Ronnie Montrose guitar cover of this song, its a classic!
For a James Bond episode, Yes!
I love this song!
This song came out in 1961 and my folks played it all the time... us teens however went for his later hits in 1963..
Hi Harri .. Please check out "I'm Gonna Be Strong" .. It is a masterpiece, and it really shows off Gene's amazing voice at its climactic finish .. ( PS - A young Cyndi Lauper does a very good cover of it, and it highlights her wonderful voice too ) ..Cheers, Wayne
Gene Pitney - (The Man Who Shot) Liiberty Valance. Also, The Royal Guardsmen (Snoopy vs The Red Baron) did a great, great cover of Liberty Valance
I miss him RIP Gene
Absolutely correct on the James Bond sound, but the Liberace not so much. Gene was an amazing talent, he also wrote “He’s a rebel” for the Crystals. And I’ll always think of James Bond now when I hear this.
To this day I'm baffled at how rarely this song is played on oldies stations. If anything, I hear Pitney's lesser exciting "It Hurts to Be in Love" and "24 Hours From Tulsa." Both OK, but minor in comparison to "Town Without Pity."
All I think of is Kirstie alley dancing to this with John Travolta peeking around the corner in that movie look who's talking
it's a teenage angst song. Very good and really dramatic. I love it.
I remember this song from my childhood. It still sounds great six decades later. Wonderful choice Daniel. Nice reaction Harri. I can definitely see what you mean about the James Bond tone. Very astute observation! 🌺✌️
Thanks Debbie. I love the late Gene Pitney.alot. 👍🙃
Gene was from near here. Oddly enough he's on the Rolling Stones first LP.
I love me some Gene Pitney! Hope you do more reactions of his stuff!!
He had a whole album of old songs like Slow Boat to China, Moulin Rouge, Golden Earrings, serenade of the Bells, Two Sleepy People. And some recordings as a duet with George Jones.
A couple of minor points -- The song came out before the first James Bond film, and after Billie Holliday had died.
My favorite of His. He was fantastic!
I agree with you about it sounding like a sixties Bond soundtrack, except they always used a female singer. Gene Pitney, sounds a little like "Paul Anka" a singer/Heart throb of the same era, and maybe even more famous than Pitney. You could probably say that about many songs of the early to mid-sixties, having that same sound as a Bond soundtrack, because that's when the Sean Connery Bond films were made, and the sound quality of the studios, were all at this level. When I hear that early 60s sound, it takes me right back to when I was a boy of between 6 to 8 yrs. old.
Thank you Harri
Tom Jones, Duran Duran, and other men did James Bond theme songs. A man sung From Russia With Love too.
The James Bond feel can definitely hear. As for the Billie Holiday reference, not at all.
Known as the Rockville Rocket from Rockville Connecticut. He moved to England and became a bigger success there.
He never moved to England. He resided just 10 miles where he grew up in Rockville Connecticut. He lived in the same home from 1970 till his death.
This brought back some memories!
I still have a record of Gene Pitney. My favourite song is "The man who shot Liberty Valance", which is from the movie of the same name with my favourite actor James Stewart.
This song was used by the movie, Town Without Pity.
Also made into a movie.
Since I have roots in the area, I've commented favorably about the "Rockville Rocket", but I'd be remiss if I didn't mention @Harribest for his unfailing optimism in evaluating music! He never fails to identify the high points of a song, regardless of the genre.
This is pre-James Bond movies.
Live or Video 50s threw 80s 😊
This movie that this song was made for was very disturbing for me as a little girl. Please try to watch the movie