Gene Pitney dies aged 65

[Maczebus]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/4878926.stm

I remember him appearing on a tv show here on an outside broadcast performing a single. Except he missed his cue for when to start lip-syncing.
Shame that that's my over-riding memory of him, but then I did perhaps miss his hey-day.

[obie]

My impression is that he'd always been more popular in the UK than the US despite being an American, and that he's been unfairly branded as a teeny-bopper when his range was a lot greater than that. He was experimenting with Eastern sounds in the early 60s before the psychedelia movement really started, and was likely an influence on both the Beatles and Bowie.