Town Without Pitney

Just to note the passing of another teen icon of my youth. Gene Pitney never had the kind of success he dreamed of in his own country. He did OK, but he was always a bigger star in Europe, and especially in Britain, where he recently died while on tour. I’ll remember him best as the author of “Hello, Mary Lou” (yes, I was a Rick Nelson fan and proud of it!), and for “Town Without Pity”, “Twenty-four Hours from Tulsa”, and “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance”.