Paul Stanley was no stranger to breaking down boundaries and pushing things musically and stylistically, but there was a band he called a real gamechanger.
Pitney, who was only 21 years old just starting out his career when the song was released in 1961, handles all of those various moods in a bravura performance. Kind of an odd story, this one.
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