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Fact #105161

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Gene Pitney enters the Billboard Singles Chart in the USA with It Hurts To Be In Love, which will peak at No7.

Full article:

Gene Pitney : It Hurts To Be In Love came about as a result of one of those things that happen to you in your career over which you have no real control, but which exert a really strong influence. I'd gone to see (Brill Building publisher) Don Kirshner at Screen Gems Music. Don was very good because he was one of the very few successful publishers who, instead of playing things which sounded as close as they could get to your last hit, would play you things which were different, that took you down other avenues.

He played me the Neil Sedaka demo of It Hurts To Be In Love and I said to him, 'That's a hit song. Why are you playing that for me?' And he said that Neil had just changed producer, and his new people didn't want any baggage coming with him from his previous deal, and they'd thrown it out. So I told Don, 'I'll take it. And the backing track is so good, can you get me that also?'

Don called me back later and said, 'You got it.' and I took the track into the same studio where Neil had cut his demo, and I brought in the same girl who'd done the background vocals on the demo, Toni Wine