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 ...

Gene Pitney, the songwriter behind “Hello, Mary Lou” and a singer identified by his pleasant tenor and falsetto flourishes on hits such as “Only Love Can Break a Heart,” died Wednesday following a ...

LONDON - Gene Pitney, a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame whose hits included "Town Without Pity" and "Only Love Can Break a Heart," died Wednesday at a hotel in Wales after playing a show, his ...

Those who listen to oldies radio often hear the music of dead people, but Gene Pitney is a live man walking. "There's people out there who think I'm dead," Pitney, 60, said in a telephone interview ...

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 ...

In January, the Town Council voted to name a blighted parcel at 19 Grove St. into the “Gene Pitney Memorial Park.” Since then, crews have worked on the finishing touches of the park. According to the ...