Gene Pitney (born Gene Francis Alan Pitney in Hartford, Connecticut, USA on… Read Full Bio ↴Gene Pitney (born Gene Francis Alan Pitney in Hartford, Connecticut, USA on 17 February 1940 - died 5 April 2006 (Cardiff, Wales). After a successful singing career spanning five decades, at the age of 66, he was found dead of natural causes, while in the middle of a sellout UK tour.

Pitney, a pop rock pioneer, had his greatest success overall in Britain, first travelling there after his first self penned hit in 1961. "I Wanna Love My Life Away" hit #26 on the UK singles chart & just broke into the top 40 in the US.

His early music recorded for the "musicor" label was romantic, lonely and dramatic, fitting in alongside contemporaries like Buddy Holly, Neil Sedaka, Roy Orbison & serves as an audio time capsule of a more innocent time.

Gene Pitney - Yesterday's Hero...

Gene was a Brill Building songwriter who even before his singing career took off, had written one of Ricky Nelson's biggest hits "Hello Mary Lou". He had been helped out initially in his career by Burt Bacharach & Hal David, and later recorded some of their songs which became big hits like "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" and the classic "Only Love Can Break A Heart". At the time his "Only Love..." recording was a #2 chart hit, he had written the number 1 song that week; "He's A Rebel" (A Phil Spector production recorded by The Crystals). All in all Pitney himself recorded 16 top 40 songs in the US from 1961 to 1968.

Gene's biggest popularity was in England, where he used the Rolling Stones publicist Andrew Loog Oldham to get his fame established, which lasted there to the day of his death. In the UK, Gene had 40 top-40 charting hits through 1974. He finally hit #1 in the UK in 1990, performing a duet with Marc Almond of Soft Cell. Pitney died April 5 on tour in 2006. He was found by his tour manager fully clothed on his bed at a Hilton Hotel in Cardiff , shortly after performing a concert.

All by Myself
Gene Pitney Lyrics

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Little girl don't you want to stay?
I want to be your lover man
All by myself
All by myself

I don't need no one to love you
I'm gonna love you all by myself

You'll find, little girl, you know it too,
Don't you know I'm in love with you
All by myself
All by myself.

I don't want no one to love you
I want to love you all by myself

Meet me in the parlor 'bout half past one,
We'll go on down and have some fun
All by ourselves,
All by ourselves,

We don't need nobody with us
We gonna do it all by ourselves.

Overall Meaning

The song "All by Myself" by Gene Pitney is a love song that is sung by a man who is deeply in love with a woman. He is asking her to stay with him and be his lover. He tells her that he doesn't need anyone else to love her, he will love her all by himself. He is very confident in his love for her and tells her that she knows that he is in love with her. He doesn't want anyone else to love her, he only wants to love her by himself.

The man invites the woman to meet him in the parlor at half past one. He wants to have fun with her, all by themselves. He tells her that they don't need anybody with them, they can do it all by themselves. This line shows that he wants to spend time with her alone and does not want anyone else to interfere with their time together. The song is a declaration of love and a desire for intimacy and togetherness.

Line by Line Meaning

Little girl don't you want to stay?
Wouldn't you like to spend time with me?

I want to be your lover man
I desire to be your romantic partner

All by myself
Without any assistance or company

I don't need no one to love you
I don't require anyone else to love you

I'm gonna love you all by myself
I will give you all the affection on my own

You'll find, little girl, you know it too,
You will understand, as will I,

Don't you know I'm in love with you
That I am in love with you

All by myself
Without any assistance or company

All by myself.
Without any assistance or company

I don't want no one to love you
I desire to be the sole person who loves you

I want to love you all by myself
I aspire to give you all my love on my own

Meet me in the parlor 'bout half past one,
Let's rendezvous in the parlor around 1:30

We'll go on down and have some fun
We'll head out and enjoy ourselves

All by ourselves,
Without any assistance or company

We don't need nobody with us
We don't require any outside help

We gonna do it all by ourselves.
We will accomplish everything on our own

Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Round Hill Music Big Loud Songs
Written by: Eric Carmen, Sergei Rachmaninoff

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