NEW 📀 Town Without Pity - Gene Pitney {Stereo} 1961
1961-62......#13 U.S. Billboard Hot 100, #11 U.S. Cash Box Top 100, #10 Canada Original video edited and remastered with HQ stereo sound / To find out more about spectral editing and sound source separation, go to http://www.monotostereo.info/ Town Without Pity is a song written by composer Dimitri Tiomkin and lyricist Ned Washington. The track, produced by Aaron Schroeder, was originally recorded by Gene Pitney for the 1961 film of the same title. In the US, the Gene Pitney recording went to #13 on the Hot 100. This tragic song, in the key of B Minor, first ends the chorus in D Major, before going up a key in the refrain to C Minor, with the coda ending the song in the same minor key. In 1962, the song received a Golden Globe Award for Best Song and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song (losing to "Moon River" from Breakfast at Tiffany's).
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