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Gene Pitney 1966 Tour Caravan Poster w/Many Hit-Makers....
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Gene Pitney 1966 Tour Caravan Poster w/Many Hit-Makers. An original cardboard window card advertising "The Gene Pitney Show" full of Top 40 talent stopping at the Symphony Hall in Newark, New Jersey for two shows on Sunday afternoon, April 24, 1966. A very catchy six-color poster utilizing yellow, blue, white, peach, black and red, done by the Murray Poster Printing Co. out of New York.Pitney led the charge on the strength of his Top 40 successes going back five years at this point - 14 in all so far. Nest to his photo, the poster displays the shortened version of "I'm Gonna Be Strong," a top-tenner from 1964, and "Town Without Pity," Gene's first-ever Top 20 hit from 1961.
Then there's everyone else, often backed up by the Triumphs Orchestra - "orchestra" being a very loose term, as you can see by their picture under "Triumphs." Those five gentlemen were basically just the back-up band for the solo vocalists.
Len Barry's "Like a Baby" was a Top 30 hit, but he's best known for his one smash, "1-2-3." The McCoys' "Hang On Sloopy" is great to see on a poster, a #1 classic from the previous year. "Fever" was its Top 10 follow-up, and "Up and Down" was the Top 50 follow-up to that.
Bobby Goldsboro would become massive with "Honey" two years later, but at this point he's on the board due to one Top 10 hit, "See the Funny Little Clown." B.J. Thomas had a pretty distinguished career, and this poster may be his 'rookie card': "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" was his first and current hit, and a top-tenner at that.
The Outsiders (from Cleveland) also had a Top 10 hit on the charts right now with "Time Won't Let Me." And yet another musician on here was experiencing the exact same timing with her one & only hit: Norma Tanega went national Top 25 with "Walkin' My Cat Named Dog." And the fine-print Turley Richards wouldn't chart anything in Billboard until 1970, but never had a hit.
Oh, wait... there's Chad & Jeremy. Nice big yellow stripe for those fellows, who had one more Top 30 hit after this before going away. "A Summer Song" was their smash, a Top 10 hit from the summer of 1964. "Before and After" went Top 20 for them in 1965, and "Yesterday's Gone" was their first hit from the spring of '64.
Measures 18" x 24" and grades to repaired Very Good condition. Poster has a very neat horizontal crease all the way across the board, running perfectly between the different artists' photographs and color-boxes. It's neat enough to be a factory fold, but we don't know why that would've been done. Poster has been repaired/restored in several different areas. Those would include each corner, the top center and bottom center margin areas, the left edge where the crease begins, and in the white margin to the left of "Len." There are light surface scuffs/scratches on the photos of Gene Pitney and B.J. Thomas. COA from Heritage Auctions.
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2022 May 15 Entertainment & Music Memorabilia Showcase Auction #41165 (go to Auction Home page)
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