Posted on 08/02/2019 7:26:46 AM PDT by simpson96
"Twenty Four Hours from Tulsa" is a song written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, about a traveling man who detours to a romance in a motel and ends up never returning home, which was a hit for Gene Pitney. The song peaked at #17 on the December 7th, 1963 Hot 100 and #2 on the 6 December 1963 WLS Silver Dollar Survey.
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A great voice. My favorite by him is Town Without Pity
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Or as a friend of mine in college thought she heard : Down and Out City.
We still sing those words to it to this day.
Good for him. Pitney’s travelin man sounds like a maroon.
“Boondock” means “mountain” in Tagalog, so it’s like saying, “down in the mountains.”
I know it’s an old thread, but was thinking of him today for some reason. He also sang in Italian:
Gene Pitney- Quando vedrai la mia ragazza - Festival di San Remo 1964 https://youtu.be/lSlYI9VPyqs
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