[mikeb704]

"Only Love Can Break a Heart" was written by Burt Bacharach (?) and Hal David, I think. Sung by the GREAT Gene Pitney. Wonder if Saddam is playing Gene's "Mecca" in his own little corner of Hades these days.

[archy]

"Only Love Can Break a Heart" was written by Burt Bacharach (?) and Hal David, I think. Sung by the GREAT Gene Pitney. Wonder if Saddam is playing Gene's "Mecca" in his own little corner of Hades these days.

It was indeed Bacharach/David who penned Gene Pitney's classic 1962 hit, also covered by Neil Sedaka and Willie Nelson, among others.

If Saddam is in Hell, I'm sure they have special tunes better fitting to him than Gene Pitney...and if he lives, I hope that he's somewhere where the only entertainment is an old Grundig that only picks up the Russian *Special channel 7* trance/industrial electronic music station.