Gene Pitney A. Orlowski, G Pitney, G. Pitney, G.Pitney, Gene, Gene Ditney
American singer/songwriter, musician and engineer. He was born February 17, 1941 in Hartford, Connecticut and died in a hotel after a gig on April 5, 2006 in Cardiff, Wales, UK. At the beginning of his musical career Pitney cut a few records under different pseudonyms, as Jamie & Jane with Ginny Arnell in 1958 and as Billy Bryan in 1959. From 1961 he worked with songwriters Burt Bacharach and Hal David. Through the mid-1960s, he enjoyed success as a recording artist on both sides of the Atlantic. Inducted into Rock And Roll Hall of Fame in 2002 (Performer).