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 ...

LONDON (AP) -- Gene Pitney, whose keening tenor voice produced a string of hits including "Town Without Pity" was found dead in his hotel room in Wales Wednesday following a concert that fans ...

Gene Pitney, the clean-cut crooner who became a teenage idol in the early 1960s with hits like ''Town Without Pity,'' ''(The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance'' and ''Only Love Can Break a Heart'' -- ...

Today in Music History for Feb. 17: ...