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It Hurts to Be in Love and Eleven More Hit Songs

It Hurts to Be in Love and Eleven More Hit Songs is American singer Gene Pitney's ninth album, released on the Musicor label in the United States in 1964. The album was released as I'm Gonna Be Strong on the Stateside label in the United Kingdom.[citation needed]

It Hurts to Be in Love and Eleven More Hit Songs
Studio album by
Gene Pitney
Released1964
GenrePop
LabelMusicor (United States)
Stateside (United Kingdom)
Gene Pitney chronology
Gene Italiano
(1964) 		It Hurts to Be in Love and Eleven More Hit Songs
(1964) 		Gene Pitney's Big Sixteen, Volume Two
(1965)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
allmusic.com[1]
Record Mirror[2]

The album marked a turning point in Pitney's career with his popularity waning in his home country while rising in Britain. The title track, "It Hurts to Be in Love", and "I'm Gonna Be Strong" were Pitney's last top 10 hits in the United States. The latter single as well as "That Girl Belongs to Yesterday", an early Jagger/Richards composition, were also top 10 hits in the United Kingdom.

The album reached #42 on the US album charts and stayed on the Billboard charts for 17 weeks.[3]

Track listing

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  1. "I'm Gonna Be Strong" (Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil) – 2:12
  2. "Walk" (Helen Miller, Howard Greenfield) – 2:21
  3. "I Love You More Today" (Van McCoy) – 2:18
  4. "Who Needs It" (Len Beadle, Robin Conrad) – 2:08
  5. "Follow the Sun" (Peter Udell, Gary Geld) – 2:28
  6. "Lips Are Redder On You" (Joe Meek) – 2:20
  7. "It Hurts to Be in Love" (Miller, Greenfield) – 2:34
  8. "The Last Two People On Earth" (Bob Brass, Al Kooper, Irwin Levine) – 2:52
  9. "That Girl Belongs to Yesterday" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards) – 2:51
  10. "E Se Domani" (Carlo Alberto Rossi, Giorgio Calabrese) – 2:48
  11. "Hawaii" (Brass, Kooper, Levine) – 2:08
  12. "I'm Gonna Find Myself a Girl" (Ray Adams, Valerie Avon, Elaine Adams) – 2:39

Singles

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Year Titles
 Chart position
Billboard[4]
1964 "It Hurts to Be in Love"
b/w "Hawaii" 		7
1964 "I'm Gonna Be Strong"
b/w "E Se Domani" 		9
1964 "That Girl Belongs to Yesterday"
b/w "Who Needs It" 		47

References

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  1. ^ It Hurts to Be in Love and Eleven More Hit Songs at AllMusic
  2. ^ Jones, Peter; Jopling, Norman (27 February 1965). "Gene Pitney" (PDF). Record Mirror. No. 207. p. 11. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 17 August 2022.
  3. ^ "Billboard 200 12-26-1964". Retrieved April 8, 2017.
  4. ^ "Billboard - Gene Pitney Chart History". Billboard.com.
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