Saturday, October 23, 2010

dangerous minds has a GREAT posting on the rockville rocket

meant to post it the other day, but here it is NOW. there are a few videos as well. stop on by. it's a WONDERFUL website anyway


 by Richard Metzger
 
Clean cut, All-American crooner Gene Pitney was a massive star in the 1960s—and remained popular in Europe—but he is all but forgotten today in the country of his birth. Pitney possessed one of the most distinctive male voices of the 60s, a high pitched, quavering vibrato that made his songs of unrequited love and losers promising to prove themselves to their women particularly moving..................