Modern music fans might not know too much about the work of Gene Pitney, who passed away in 2006. He was a standout songwriter and a thrilling performer, both of his own songs and of those written by ...

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 ...