Blue Gene (Gene Pitney album) explained

Blue Gene
Type:	Studio
Artist:	Gene Pitney
Cover:	Blue Gene Gene Pitney Album Cover.jpg
Released:	February 1964
Recorded:	1963
Genre:	Pop
Length:	33:32
Label:	Musicor
Producer:	Aaron Schroeder, Wally Gold
Prev Title:	Gene Pitney Sings World Wide Winners
Prev Year:	1962
Next Title:	Gene Pitney Meets the Fair Young Ladies of Folkland
Next Year:	1964

Blue Gene is American singer Gene Pitney's fifth album, released on the Musicor label in 1964. The album contained the Burt Bacharach and Hal David hit "Twenty Four Hours from Tulsa", a top 10 hit in the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia and a top 20 hit on the US Billboard Hot 100 (#17), as well as the minor hit "Yesterday's Hero" (#64).^[1]

Track listing

1. "Twenty Four Hours from Tulsa" (Hal David, Burt Bacharach) – 3:00
2. "Autumn Leaves" (Johnny Mercer, Joseph Kosma) – 2:38
3. "Half the Laughter, Twice the Tears" (Carl Spencer, Al Cleveland) – 2:12
4. "I'll Be Seeing You" (Irving Kahal, Sammy Fain) – 2:59
5. "Lonely Night Dreams" (John Gluck, Jr., Neval Nader) – 2:42
6. "Answer Me, My Love" (Carl Sigman, Gerhard Winkler) – 3:04
7. "Blue Gene" (C. Taylor) – 2:09
8. "Yesterday's Hero" (Al Cleveland, Carl Spencer) – 2:33
9. "Maybe You'll Be There" (Rube Bloom, Sammy Gallop) – 2:42
10. "Keep Tellin' Yourself" (Ellie Greenwich, Elmo Glick, Tony Powers) – 2:23
11. "I Can't Run Away" (Gary Geld, Peter Udell) – 2:03
12. "House Without Windows" (Fred Tobias, Lee Pockriss) – 2:26

U.K. album track listing (release on EMI's Stateside label, cat. no. SL 10119)

1. "Twenty Four Hours from Tulsa" (Hal David, Burt Bacharach) – 3:00
2. "Autumn Leaves" (Johnny Mercer, Joseph Kosma) – 2:38
3. "Half the Laughter, Twice the Tears" (Carl Spencer, Al Cleveland) – 2:12
4. "I'll Be Seeing You (Irving Kahal, Sammy Fain) – 2:59
5. "Lonely Night Dreams" (John Gluck, Jr., Neval Nader) – 2:42
6. "Answer Me My Love" (Carl Sigman, Gerhard Winkler) – 3:04
7. "Blue Gene" (Chip Taylor) – 2:09
8. "Yesterday's Hero" (Al Cleveland, Carl Spencer) – 2:33
9. "Maybe You'll Be There" (Rube Bloom, Sammy Gallop) – 2:42
10. "Keep Tellin' Yourself" (Ellie Greenwich, Elmo Glick, Tony Powers) – 2:23
11. "I Can't Run Away" (Gary Geld, Peter Udell) – 2:03
12. "Take It Like a Man" (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller) – 2:19

Personnel

• Burt Bacharach, Bert Keyes, Garry Sherman – arranger, conductor

Notes and References

1. Web site: Billboard Hot 100 - Gene Pitney. April 7, 2017. April 8, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170408022209/http://www.billboard.com/artist/302676/gene-pitney/chart?f=379. dead.