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Mecca (song)

"Mecca"
Mecca - Gene Pitney.jpg
Single by Gene Pitney
from the album Gene Pitney Sings Just for You
B-side "Teardrop by Teardrop"
Released March 1963
Genre Pop
Length 2:18
Label Musicor
Songwriter(s) Neval Nader, John Gluck Jr.
Producer(s) Jerry Ragavoy
Gene Pitney singles chronology
"Half Heaven - Half Heartache"
(1962)
"Mecca"
(1963)
"True Love Never Runs Smooth"
(1963)
"Half Heaven - Half Heartache"
(1962)
"Mecca"
(1963)
"True Love Never Runs Smooth"
(1963)

"Mecca" is a 1963 song which was a hit for Gene Pitney. It was the first release and greatest hit from his LP, Gene Pitney Sings Just for You.

In the U.S., "Mecca" peaked at #12 on the pop chart and #4 Easy Listening. It was a bigger hit in Australia, where it peaked at #7, and in Canada where it reached #2.

The B-side, "Teardrop by Teardrop," charted at #130 on the Billboard Bubbling Under the Hot 100 chart.


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