Fact #84226
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Short story:
Gene Pitney enters the UK singles chart with the Burt Bacharach/Hal David composition 24 Hours From Tulsa. It will peak at No5.
Full article:
Gene Pitney : It was a sheer fluke that I was in England to plug it. The real reason I was over was that someone in New York had found out that there was a thing called Mecca Ballrooms in England, and they thought, 'Hey, this is perfect, we'll send Gene over with (his recent single) Mecca and it'll be a great hit.' But, when I got there, I soon realised that no-one at EMI was interested because I was a ballad singer and Mecca was a ballroom tour. So I cancelled the tour.
Then I thought to myself, 'Seeing as I'm here and I have all this time on my hands, I may as well do the television and promotion with the new song I have out in the States, Tulsa, which was a far stronger song anyway. I did every tv show, every interview, everything the record company wanted, and it really took off. It was the one big record which really broke me in Europe.
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Then I thought to myself, 'Seeing as I'm here and I have all this time on my hands, I may as well do the television and promotion with the new song I have out in the States, Tulsa, which was a far stronger song anyway. I did every tv show, every interview, everything the record company wanted, and it really took off. It was the one big record which really broke me in Europe.
(Source : not known)