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Gene Pitney

Archive Posted On May 1, 2006

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GENE PITNEY, who wrote Rick Nelson’s hit “Hello Mary Lou” and had more than a dozen top-40 singles himself during the 1960s, died April 5 while on tour in the U.K. He was 65.

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