Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Take These Eager Lips and Hold Me Fast

Singer Gene Pitney has died.

And if you're thinking to yourself, "Who the hell is Gene Pitney?" go download "Town Without Pity" right now. It's an awesome song.

4 comments:

Jess Hutch said...

Man, I love that song. Super melodramatic. John Waters used it really well in Hairspray...

Anonymous said...

Goodta seeya recognize a pretty-damned good vocalist...I thought he hadda great voice...

Rain said...

That song is one of those examples where a movie's theme song is far more memorable than the movie itself (a courtroom drama about a rape trial, starring Kirk Douglas).

Anonymous said...

One of my all-time favorite songs...EVER !! It was the first record I bought...and I played that it over and over and over... You're right though, the movie sucked, except for a very young, pretty, Christine Kaufman, who would later replace Janet Leigh as Mrs. Tony Curtis.
S.