I do love this song. I have loved this song since I was a child. Of course, back then, I didn't realise just how brutal the song was.
It's basically a "Dear John" letter from Gene to his love, back in Tulsa.
It starts off with the line; "Dearest, Darling", which sounds romantic, but then he goes into graphic details about how he fell in love with another woman as he drove into a hotel!
Seriously, at this point, Gene sounds a bit of a stalker. It was the 60s. It was acceptable then! He asks this woman at the hotel, where he can get something to eat. She shows him and then they're dancing and he's like; "yeah, I love you now. I'd die if you ever leave me".
I wonder if woman two knew about woman one? I'll tell you what, I wouldn't be trusting him too much when he was off on the road, travelling. You'd be worried if he'd leave you, everytime he asked a woman for directions.
Seriously, I love this love. It's a classic. Gene Pitney was an amazing singer. And I'm sure the real Gene was nothing like the narrator of this song.
Another reason I love this song is that it was used on a TV advert when I was a kid, here in the UK. I don't actually remember the company it was advertising, but the advert rewrote the lyrics and one of the lyrics was "Twenty four toasters from Scunthorpe". And everytime my mum and I heard this song, for years later, we'd always say "Twenty four toasters from Scunthorpe".
I hope the lost love didn't feel too bad about being brutally dumped. If he was easily swayed to fall in love with another he didn't know, then he wasn't the one for you!
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