(I Wanna) Love My Life Away Explained

(I Wanna) Love My Life Away
Type:	single
Artist:	Gene Pitney
B-Side:	I Laughed So Hard I Cried
Released:	1961
Genre:	Pop
Label:	Musicor
Producer:	Aaron Schroeder

"(I Wanna) Love My Life Away" is a song written and sung by Gene Pitney, which he released in 1961. The song was Pitney's first charting single, and spent 8 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at No. 39,^[1] while reaching No. 23 on Canada's CHUM Hit Parade.^[2] In the United Kingdom, the song spent 11 weeks on the Record Retailer chart, reaching No. 26.^[3]

Jody Miller released a version in 1978, which reached No. 67 on Billboards Hot Country Singles chart.^[4]

Chart performance

Chart (1961)	Peak position
US Billboard Hot 100	39
Canada - CHUM Hit Parade	23
UK Record Retailer	26

Notes and References

1. http://www.billboard.com/artist/302676/gene-pitney/chart?page=1&f=379 Gene Pitney - Chart History - The Hot 100
2. Web site: CHUM Hit Parade – Week of March 6, 1961, chart No. 201 . . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20061107221913/http://www.1050chum.com/charts/chartview.aspx?img=19610306 . November 7, 2006 . June 13, 2017.
3. http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/9624/gene%20pitney/ Gene Pitney - Full Official Chart History
4. "Billboard Hot Country Singles", Billboard, August 12, 1978. p. 44. Retrieved October 14, 2016.