Gene Pitney, who died yesterday at 65 after a performance at a hotel in Wales, was a singer and songwriter whose wailing tenor could be heard in such early 1960s hits as “Only Love Can Break a Heart,” ...

American singer Gene Pitney, who shot to fame in the 1960s with hits including “24 Hours from Tulsa,” has died while on tour in Britain, his agent said on Wednesday. Jene Levy said Pitney, 66, was ...

LONDON – Gene Pitney, whose keening tenor voice produced a string of hits including “24 Hours From Tulsa,” was found dead in his hotel room in Wales on Wednesday following a concert that fans ...

It is a shame that in today's celebrity-obsessed world -- where the diet of a talent-challenged teen diva, some drug-addled indie rocker's rendezvous with a rehab clinic, and random shootings of ...

For a guy who was a dominant figure on the U.S. charts for a good stretch of the early ’60s, wrote big hits for Ricky Nelson and The Crystals, and later gained great popularity overseas, Gene Pitney ...

Gene Pitney’s high school bandmates said the rock ‘n’ roll legend used to come down to Paper Mill Pond in the Rockville section of Vernon to write songs. On Tuesday, Rob Terry and Dick Spurling, lead ...