Gene Pitney Sings World Wide Winners

Gene Pitney Sings World Wide Winners is American singer Gene Pitney's fourth album, released on the Musicor label in 1963. The album mainly comprised material released on Pitney's first two albums, plus two non-album single tracks: "Louisiana Mama" and "Mr. Moon, Mr. Cupid & I", and one previously unreleased track: "Garden of Love".

Gene Pitney Sings World Wide Winners
Compilation album by
Gene Pitney
Released1963
GenrePop
Length30:30
LabelMusicor
ProducerAaron Schroeder, Wally Gold
Gene Pitney chronology
Gene Pitney Sings Just for You
(1962)
Gene Pitney Sings World Wide Winners
(1963)
Blue Gene
(1963)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
allmusic.com[1]

The album reached No. 41 on the US Billboard albums chart during a 29-week run on the chart.[2]

Track listing

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All tracks composed by Gene Pitney; except where indicated

Side 1

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  1. "Mr. Moon, Mr. Cupid & I" – 2:15 (Non-album B-side of the "Every Breath I Take" single)
  2. "Only Love Can Break a Heart" (Hal David, Burt Bacharach) – 2:52 (from Only Love Can Break a Heart)
  3. "If I Didn't Have a Dime" (Bert Russell, Phil Medley) – 2:31 (from Only Love Can Break a Heart)
  4. "(The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance" (Hal David, Burt Bacharach) – 3:00 (from Only Love Can Break a Heart)
  5. "Louisiana Mama" – 2:20 (Non-album single A-side)
  6. "Every Breath I Take" (Gerry Goffin, Carole King) – 2:46 (from The Many Sides of Gene Pitney)

Side 2

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  1. "Tower Tall" (Mel Mandel, Norman Sachs) – 3:21 (from Only Love Can Break a Heart)
  2. "Hello Mary Lou" – 2:15 (from The Many Sides of Gene Pitney)
  3. "Half Heaven – Half Heartache" (Aaron Schroeder, George Goehring, Wally Gold) – 2:50 (from Only Love Can Break a Heart)
  4. "Garden of Love" – 1:45 (non-single LP debut)
  5. "Town Without Pity" (Dimitri Tiomkin, Ned Washington) – 2:53 (from The Many Sides of Gene Pitney)
  6. "(I Wanna) Love My Life Away" – 1:53 (from The Many Sides of Gene Pitney)

References

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  1. ^ Gene Pitney Sings World Wide Winners at AllMusic
  2. ^ "Billboard Top 200 09-07-1963". Retrieved April 6, 2017.