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SONGWRITER PROFILE • GENE PITNEY
[Click HERE To Go Back To The Start Of This Interview]
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Tell me about my favourite Pitney song - "Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart"
Yeah - that one made it twice for me, once back in the sixties, and then again in the nineties. I was in London in 1966 I think, and Ron Richards called me and asked me to listen to this song, sung by one of the writers, Roger Cook. But although I loved the song, I was nervous because Roger's demo version was so good. I was sure I couldn't do it any better. But they assured me that Roger was not interested in a singing career, so I took the song, and of course, it went Number One back in 1967.
Anyway, twenty-five years go by, and I am back in England, when somebody asks if I would like to do a duet on one of my songs with Marc Almond. And I almost turned it down! I was tired, I was in the middle of the tour, and the weather was bad. They wanted me to travel up from Bristol where I had been singing the previous night, go into a studio at 11am, do the track and then appear that night in Manchester. But it seemed so off-the-wall, such a weird situation, that I thought - why not? So I went in and did my part - I never met Marc, he was in the USA while I was touring the UK - and then I went back to finish my tour. The next time I heard the song was when Marc and I met in Las Vegas to make the video, about three months later, and he had of course, by then added his vocals to my track. I really liked the finished recording - and it gave me another hit!
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