Vinyl Album - Gene Pitney - The Big Sixteen - Musicor

Vinyl Album

Artist:	Gene Pitney
Title:	The Big Sixteen
Label:	Musicor
Country:	Australia
Catalogue:	L-34,582
Date:	1972
Format:	LP
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	Gene Pitney	The Ship True Love Goodbye	Nader, Barkan	Rate
A2	Gene Pitney	Twenty-Four Hours From Tulsa	David, Bacharach	Rate
A3	Gene Pitney	Only Love Can Break A Heart	David, Bacharach	Rate
A4	Gene Pitney	Not Responsible	Raleigh, Barkan	Rate
A5	Gene Pitney	Teardrop By Teardrop	Halley	Rate
A6	Gene Pitney	Donna Means Heartbreak	David, Hampton	Rate
A7	Gene Pitney	Aladdin's Lamp	Pitney	Rate
A8	Gene Pitney	The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance	David, Bacharach	Rate
B1	Gene Pitney	Keep Tellin' Yourself	Greenwich, Powers, Glick	Rate
B2	Gene Pitney	Mecca	Nader, Gluck	Rate
B3	Gene Pitney	Town Without Pity	Tiomkin, Washington	Rate
B4	Gene Pitney	Tower Tall	Mandel, Sachs	Rate
B5	Gene Pitney	Cry Your Eyes Out	Raleigh, Gluck	Rate
B6	Gene Pitney	True Love Never Runs Smooth	David, Bacharach	Rate
B7	Gene Pitney	Take Me Tonight	Schroeder, Gold, Alfred	Rate
B8	Gene Pitney	Half Heaven - Half Heartache	Schroeder, Gold, Goehring	Rate

Notes

Left the year blank as this LP has mixed vintage. The catalogue number suggests an issue some time after mid-1973, the label and cover says Published 1972 but the original USA and UK issues are from 1964. I've gone with the branding on the label(Musicore) over the trademark on the cover(Interfusion), This is a Festival issue but this album surfaced in Australia first time out on CBS in 1964 or 1965. Like I said - mixed vintage.

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Number: 689160

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Uploaded By: Neil Forbes
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Number: 689161

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Number: 689162

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Number: 689163

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Comments and Reviews


wax_museum ● 8th Apr 2016		What DID happen to Neil???



wax_museum ● 8th Apr 2016		True, but sometimes Festival re-issued and dropped the prefix, so just L instead of ITFL, I guess we need some consistency about whether a new label e.g. Interfusion to Musicor constitutes a new entry and new date. If it does then this should not be listed as 1969, etc.



PhilMH 8th Apr 2016		The catalogue number SOSL-10086 in brackets on the labels indicates that there was a previous Stateside label issue for this; 45cat shows Gene had singles on Stateside in Australia in 1970 and 1971.



PhilMH 8th Apr 2016		Michael deLooper's Festival LPs listing has this as ITFL 34,582 in November 1972, indicating that it was first issued on Interfusion (hence that logo on the cover). As Neil said (what's happened to him, anyway?), Festival reduced all their prefixes to simply L in 1973, so as this copy is on a different label as well, I think it should be made 1973.



wax_museum ● 8th Apr 2016		Cat # is 1972



Neil Forbes 8th Mar 2015		Sorry, RC but this particular issue was dated some time after mid-1973. The catalogue prefix for ALL Festival LP issues was reduced to the simple "L" prefix followed by a five-digit number about mid-73. Prior to this an Interfusion LP would've had an ITFL prefix(from mid-1972 to mid-1973, and before that, an SITFL prefix with a 9 added ahead of the number from when Stereo LPs were first issued(and when the Interfusion label first appeared, 1970 or so). So two typical Festival numbers prior to this(and these are actual numbers) would be SFL-934426(Jamie Redfern's When You Wish Upon A Star) and FL-34671(Jamie Redfern's Sitting On Top Of The World) issued in 1971 and 1972 respectively. This Gene Pitney LP, if it had been issued in 1972 would've been either ITFL-34,582(for Interfusion) or ML-34,582(for Musicore). The simple fact that the number is simply L-34,582 puts the manufacture and issue of this LP sometime AFTER mid-1973.



Record Collector 8th Mar 2015		The album was issued in 1972



Record Collector 8th Mar 2015		Yes I know your aware of those songs neil but there's other people on this site don't



Neil Forbes 8th Mar 2015		I know the songs, RC, don't need to hear them, got them stored as MP3 files anyway. But they're not in this album which was first issued a full decade ahead of Blue Angel. This copy I've put up is a mid-1973 or later reissue(I'm not sure of the year this was issued, that's why I left the year blank).



Record Collector 8th Mar 2015		and this one also



Record Collector 8th Mar 2015		always be my favorite



Neil Forbes 8th Mar 2015		Well, you know now, RC. Go out and grab a few of his albums(or a few more if you've already got one or two) and sample his wares! He really was a great performer. He had quite a few more hits than his Australian chart history would indicate, mainly in Britain and Europe where he was more appreciated than in his home market of the USA. His run of hits in Australia stopped in 1966 but picked up again(briefly) in 1974/75 with *Blue Angel* and *Trans-Canada Highway* but we made up for lost time by filling the venues where he performed to capacity. GENE PITNEY - A truly great performer, sorely missed!



Neil Forbes 8th Mar 2015		Yeah, RC! Ya did! Now I'm feeling old(oooh my achin' bones!) Ha-ha.



Record Collector 8th Mar 2015		yes I know now neil that he had hits in the sixties but I didn't know in 1975



Neil Forbes 8th Mar 2015		Gene Pitney goes back a lot further than that, RC, but sadly he's no longer with us. I saw him perform 'live' at Newcastle's Civic Theatre once in 1974, just a short time after "Blue Angel" came out, then probably 4 or 5 times more at the Newcastle Worker's Club, before and after the 1989 earthquake forced the complete rebuild during 1990. He always performed to packed auditoria(plural of auditorium).



Record Collector 8th Mar 2015		did I say 1975? ooooohhhh now that is scary



Record Collector 8th Mar 2015		first time I heard gene Pitney was in 1975 with two single releases and one of them went to number one



Neil Forbes 8th Mar 2015		Oh RC, really! You're not putting your trust in that spell-check are you?



Record Collector 8th Mar 2015		Sorry it's now been corrected grrr those spell correcting feature Is not doing the job it supposed to do haha



Neil Forbes 8th Mar 2015		What was written on that "hot paper", RC?



Record Collector 8th Mar 2015		So I say there be a interfusion issue like popcorn by hot butter ok you younger generation yes I made a pun there's no need remind me haha



Neil Forbes 8th Mar 2015		Well, RC, that's why I referred to this as a Musicore issue as that's the trademark on the label, and it's what's on the label that counts most.



Record Collector 8th Mar 2015		Interesting as this is on the above label distributed by festivel as interfusion would be the main label



Record Collector 8th Mar 2015		In a sigfreed accent from get smart I am so confuuusseedd haha



Neil Forbes 8th Mar 2015		My notes pretty-much say it all. Bought this album because it contained(apart from some of the usual suspects), some rare tracks that don't always get an airing on a Gene Pitney LP. Aladdin's Lamp was originally on the back of I'm Gonna Be Strong(I have a British Stateside of that pairing), and Pitney's version of Helen Shapiro's Not Responsible is another rare cut. This album really proved itself a fantastic "find" for me.

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Linked Releases

USA - Musicor - 1964 [Mono]

USA - Musicor - 1964 [Stereo]

UK - Stateside - 1965

Canada - Birchmount - 1972