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Fact #99297

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Short story:

Gene Pitney enters the UK singles chart with That Girl Belongs To Yesterday, written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones. It will peak at No7.

Full article:

Gene Pitney : Andrew Oldham (manager of The Rolling Stones] was my publicist at the time. He'd worked on the record (Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa) and we'd gotten on really well together, which led to my meeting and hanging out with The Rolling Stones, who were then just starting to write songs.


Keith Richards (Rolling Stones) : I suppose really the credit for that must go to Andrew, because I'd never thought of writing. It had never occurred to me. I though that was something else, like being a novelist or a computer operator. It was just a completely different field, that I hadn't thought of. I just thought of myself as a guitar player. It hadn't occurred to Mick either.


?Although I suppose we dabbled with it occasionally, when we were sitting around with Brian, but I remember we just gave up in despair. It was Andrew who really forced Mick and I to sit down and try it, and who got us through that initial period that you have to go through where you just write absolute rubbish. You just re-write other people's songs. Until you start coming up with songs of your own. It was Andrew that made us persevere with that. Maybe because he wanted to promote the group, and get as much out of us as possible, I suppose.


Gene Pitney : They'd recorded My Only Girl with a guy named George Bean but they didn't like the way it had come out