Gene Pitney: The great Amercian who destroyed his own career by promoting the British Invasion.
Always a big fan of his oldies hits playing in the grocery store… and later finding out all the songs he wrote for other pop sensations. Remarkable.
My favorite collaboration of his was the dirty unreleased song he sang with the Rolling Stones (w/ Graham Nash and Allan Clarke), about Andrew Oldham (the Rolling Stones ex-producer)…. Andrew’s Blues.