Only Love Can Break a Heart (album)

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Only Love Can Break a Heart
File:Only Love Can Break a Heart Album Cover.jpg
Studio album by Gene Pitney
Released 1962
Genre Pop
Length 30:54
Label Musicor
Producer Aaron Schroeder, Wally Gold
Gene Pitney chronology
The Many Sides of Gene Pitney
(1962)The Many Sides of Gene Pitney1962
Only Love Can Break a Heart
(1962)
Gene Pitney Sings Just for You
(1963)Gene Pitney Sings Just for You1963

Only Love Can Break a Heart is the second album of Gene Pitney, released on the Musicor label in 1962. It included the top 10 hits "Only Love Can Break a Heart" and "(The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance", which was written for but not ultimately used in, the film of the same name.

Track listing

  1. "True Love Never Runs Smooth" (Hal David, Burt Bacharach) - 2:26
  2. "Cry Your Eyes Out" (Ben Raleigh, John Gluck, Jnr) - 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
  7. "Half Heaven - Half Heartache" (Schroeder, George Goehring, Wally Gold) - 2:43
  8. "Tower-Tall" (Mel Mandel, Norman Sachs) - 3:21
  9. "(The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance" (David, Bacharach) - 2:58
  10. "Little Betty Falling Star" (Bob Hilliard, Bacharach) - 2:22
  11. "If I Didn't Have a Dime" (Bert Russell, Phil Medley) - 2:31
  12. "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