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Only Love Can Break a Heart
Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 1962
Genre Pop
Length30:54
Label Musicor
Producer Aaron Schroeder, Wally Gold
Gene Pitney chronology
The Many Sides of Gene Pitney
(1962)
Only Love Can Break a Heart
(1962)
Gene Pitney Sings Just for You
(1963)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [1]
New Record Mirror [2]

Only Love Can Break a Heart is the second album by songwriter and recording artist Gene Pitney, released on the Musicor label in 1962. It included the top 10 hits " Only Love Can Break a Heart" (#2) and " (The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance" (#4), which was written for but not ultimately used in, the film of the same name. Three other singles from the album also charted; "Half Heaven-Half Heartache" at #12, "True Love Never Runs Smooth" at #21, and "If I Didn't Have a Dime" at #58. [3]

Track listing

Side 1

  1. "True Love Never Runs Smooth" ( Hal David, Burt Bacharach) – 2:26
  2. "Cry Your Eyes Out" ( Ben Raleigh, John Gluck, Jr) – 2:04
  3. " Only Love Can Break a Heart" (David, Bacharach) – 2:49
  4. "Donna Means Heartbreak" (David, Paul Hampton) – 2:23
  5. "I Should Try to Forget" ( Aaron Schroeder, Gloria Shayne, Martin Kalmanoff) – 2:12
  6. "My Heart, Your Heart" (Bob Halley) – 2:23

Side 2

  1. " Half Heaven – Half Heartache" (Schroeder, George Goehring, Wally Gold) – 2:43
  2. "Tower Tall" (Mel Mandel, Norman Sachs) – 3:21
  3. " (The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance" (David, Bacharach) – 2:58
  4. "Little Betty Falling Star" ( Bob Hilliard, Bacharach) – 2:22
  5. "If I Didn't Have a Dime" ( Bert Russell, Phil Medley) – 2:31
  6. "Going to Church on Sunday" (Halley) – 2:53

Personnel

  • Gene Pitney – vocals
  • Alan Lorber, Burt Bacharach, Chuck Sagle – arranger, conductor
  • Maurice Seymour – cover photography
  • Norman Weiser – artwork

References

  1. ^ Only Love Can Break a Heart at AllMusic
  2. ^ Watson, Jimmy (27 April 1963). "Gene Pitney: Only Love Can Break A Heart" (PDF). New Record Mirror. No. 111. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 5 August 2022.
  3. ^ "Gene Pitney Charts". Retrieved April 6, 2017.