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Gene Pitney: It Hurts to Be in Love

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This dvd might not play in your dvd player unless you hack it using a code you may find online. My version is PAL although Amazon or it's seller advertised it as NTSC.

The program is over one hour long and contains most of Pitney's hits including some songs he wrote for other singers including "Hello Mary Lou" (Rick Nelson), "He's A Rebel" (The Crystals) and "Rubber Ball" (Bobby Vee). His voice is in fine shape and both he and the audience are enjoying the show.

While the year of the concert isn't given, it does take place in his latter years (his hair is gray) and is probably representative of his on stage performances up to the time of his death.

Highly recommended for Gene's fans if they can get this dvd to play in their player.

Songs: Introduction (snippets of his hits from the concert) and then the complete versions of Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa, Last Chance To Turn Around, Backstage, Looking Through The Eyes Of Love, It Hurts To Be In Love, Mecca, If I Didn't Have A Dime, Half Heaven-Half Heartache, I'm Gonna Be Strong, Nobody Needs Your Love, Jamaica Farewell, The Angels Got Together, True Love Never Runs Smooth, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Only Love Can Break A Heart, I Must Be Seeing Things, I Wanna Love My Life Away, Hello Mary Lou, Rubber Ball, She's A Rebel, Oceans Away, She's A Heartbreaker, Town Without Pity, and Heavenly Stop (Intrumental).

This DVD is a great sample of his DINNER SHOWS later in his life.
Just to beable to see this master perform was a treat.
Picture and Sound was fine. And Gene Pitney covers all his big hits fine.
Only Two draw backs
1. The DVD has a Region encoding hold and would not play on my home unit but play fine on both my laptop and my portable player.
2. I wish the show had be taped closer to Gene Pitney's Prime
It is like see Paul Anka or Barry Manilow today.
But after all said if you liked his songs you'll enjoy this DVD

A fabulous DVD even if I can only watch it on my computer as it is in PAL format. He does a fabulous job even though it was later in his life when it was taped. He didn't change his songs around like a lot of older performers unfortunately do. His voice is still good and strong on the DVD and I would recommend it to anyone who was a fan of Gene's.

What a sad loss it was when he died, I wish we could get more DVD's of his.

Great addition to my collection. Nice selection of songs and much better than watching chopped up segments on YouTube. Happy that a DVR was included because the original DVD will not play on my equipment.

Gene Pitney was an established singer-songwriter that was well unrated in the US. He made his career huge in the UK and Australia. He wrote songs for Roy Orbison, The Crystals and Ricky Nelson. This Video was recorded when he was 60 at Foxwoods in CT. He died six years later and is very much missed. I highly recommend this video if you liked Gene Pitney-you will see him perform with an orchestra and backline singers-its Great and well worth the money.

In Concert/It Hurts to
be In Love

Some years ago(about 10) I caught his concert from Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut in 1999 on Connecticut PBS which was aired in 2001. I taped in on vhs at the time then later i burned in on dvd.

If there are any copies(good ones) it would be a great thing if it was made available.I guessing that gene must be about 70+-.

I will be ordering the above mentiond cd soon.