GENE PITNEY- "THAT GIRL BELONGS TO YESTERDAY"

"That Girl Belongs To Yesterday" peaked at #49 on 2-21-1964 on the Billboard Hot 100. (This song was written by Keith Richard and Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones) "In March,1964, Gene was present alongside Phil Spector at some of the early recording sessions by top group The Rolling Stones, for their first-ever album, made in London, featuring 12 tracks on the United Artists label. Gene had become a good friend of The Stones a year earlier when he was in England doing a tour. So Gene sat in on the recordings. He played piano on a couple of the tracks that included “Little By Little” and “Not Fade Away”. The Rolling Stones really liked Gene, so Mick Jagger and Keith Richard wrote a song for him called “That Girl Belongs To Yesterday”, which was released as a single by Gene. This became the first song composed by Jagger/Richard to have ever charted in the USA and also the first to hit the Top 10 in the UK, peaking at No.7 in March,1964. From 1961 until 1968, Gene was one of the most successful male solo pop singers in his own country, America. He had his final US Top 20 hit in 1968 with: “She’s A Heartbreaker” which reached the Top 40 in Great Britain a few years later, in 1974. Back in 1962 , Gene had done his first tour of Great Britain, helped by him having a hit in the charts called: “Town Without Pity”. (https://beat-magazine.co.uk/2020/backbeat-gene-pitney)

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