"I AM THE ANTICHRIST, THOR THE THUNDER GOD, AND I WILL PERSONALLY FUCKING DEMOLISH THAT FUCKING KHABA IN THE NAME OF THE TRUE NAME OF GOD WITH MY SLEDGEHAMMER, MJOELNER, TO CELEBRATE MY 40th FUCKING BIRTHDAY !!" - youtube - watch?v=bHIpzGGOcUs - "ALLAHU AKBAR !!"
from now on i'll listen to this excellent song on a different channel so i don't have to deal with all the bullshyte about islam......................
I don't like the song so I don't listen to it, but I don't care about it all that much. I don't think it should be ban because Muslims would not listen to it.
Gene Pitney as a rock and roll person and the Kingston Trio singing folk were my musical beginnings. I had actually forgotten he had done this song until I found it on YouTube. What is this about 1960?
Mecca n the birthplace of Mohammed, a place of pilgrimage for Muslims; a place heavily visited by, or wiyh a special attraction foa, a particular person or group, eg St Andrew as a Mecca for golfers.
So sad that he's gone, Rockville Connecticut is now a "Town without Pitney"
Unless you were around in this era, you can't know how hard it was to get the lyrics on ancient AM Radios...We argued for hours about this song and others, like "Moody River"...it was just too fuzzy to understand sometimes...
Gene Pitney was in my time a sad song singer.It was either a heart break song or a pain can't have song.But I loved his stylr and voice...Rebecca Anne..
Oh for the love of God Gene was a Catholic, this is a song nothing more. Heaven, Nirvana, Mecca, Summerland, its all the same. It means where love IS.
When I was in high school in the early 70's ,a friend and I went to a girls
house after school . There were a few girls there and we were listening to records
One of them put this record on and did a little Egyptian dance , I feel in love with her
right then! She had dark hair and had it in a poney tail. Too bad I never saw her again. I never saw anything so sensual up until that time. Now every time I hear this song
@chuc555 What a MISS! I've been there, and again!! How I wish I had know what to say and what to do! I share your disappointment , and your JOY, for the memory of that beautiful girl!
Sorry about the spelling Professor but I was typing fast, NO I am not muslim but yes I have read it, if you had you'd know that Abraham, Moses, Joshua, Ishmael, John the Baptist, Jesus, Joseph and Mary are mentioned in it You think Mohammed got that direct from God? Christianity and Judism were a big influence on him he expexted to be the final prophet and to be accepted Actually I don't believe any of it, it's all myth Did you read the Koran? I doubt it but I read Mein Kampf too and I'm no nazi
I'm just saying I don't like censorship no matter who's doing it, yes the Muslims are the guilty party now at least for the most and I mean most part, I was just mentioning that censorship based on religion, or anything else, has been used for centuries including by Christians I agree with you on the Muslim Jihad issue completey I was just putting it in a broader sense
what a great piece of music....besides that, I usually don't leave comments on here but inkerbellamusic's tiny comment made me (to use that person's language) f..king mad - if we were as rude and small brained as you, Tinkerbell, we'd make a "stoopid" remark like the one you left on here, but we're not on your level. So we just pray that you're just a single case of a NAZI in this world. unfortunately it's known that this planet is still packed with dummies like you.
Thanks for posting this song with lyrics. After 47 years I fully understand what he was saying. "Brownstone house", which still sounds distorted, were words I never understood before. Sad but true what people have said about what would happen if this song was released today, with the PC police and terrorists.
If Pitney had released this song in America today, the PC police would accuse him of insulting Islam. The self-righteous Muslims would - as always - play the victim card, feign outrage, and demand that his record label fire him. It's pathetic how far we've fallen as a society.
@chucknchar try lyric directory.n e t I had to put spaces in tthe word net so it would take it..dont put the spaces in they should have them..Rebecca Anne.
he did have a lot of realy good hit and my wife loves them all exspealey a town without pitty. she says she grew up in a small town whee every one knew every one elses bizness execpt ther own(Marienville)
It's a good thing Gene didn't release this song today. Muslims would accuse him of blasphmy and make threats at him. Even 1963 had muslim americans who at least found the song sacreligious and tried to have stations ban it.
@NolifeRob Do you have any foundation for that statement? You're a liar, is what you are. There were no Muslims objecting to Pitney's music at all. Get stuffed.
@NolifeRob I agree, but screw the moslems they are sick ,there koran talks of peace,but their kind of peace- being you become a moslem or you are a infidel and we have the right and obligation to KILL you. read it yourself.
@JJMFB1 yes I have read it myself, the whole book, it can be twisted just as the Bible can be twisted particularly the old testement which the Koran is based on You have heard ot the Crusades? the Spanish Conquistafors, and the Spanish Inquisition? haven't you? While at this time Islam is the most violent of the prosylitizing religions Christianity has been repeonsible for having infidels burned at the stake A few centuries ago the Western World had no separation of church and state either
@elamite66 Your moslem to say what you say,next try to write in english your spelling is so bad. Since you claim to have read the koran,then you would see it tells moslems to kill infidels,how can the koran be based on old testament, Moh.got the koran he claims direct from God,odd God picked a warlord who could not read or right,and on his death bed his aunt asked if she will meet him in Heaven,he replied he wasn't sure where he was going.Catholics did all that pope asked and they were wrong.
@JJMFB1 If you had read the Koran you would know that Mohammed never claimed to have communicated directly with God, it was the arch angel Gabriel who recited God's words to him, not that I believe any of that mytholigy, so it's obbious you have not read the book, the Old Testement was pretty bloody too, the Jews under Joshua attacked Jericho with no provocation and God supposedly told them to kill every living thing from babies to dogs and they did with no reservations except for the whore
@JJMFB1 Mohammad was not a warlord but a trader married to an older widow when he supposedly recieved the message in the cave, maybe later he could be called a warlord, but was not Joshua a warlord? the old testement is full of war and violence and that may be why it's such a major influence on the Koran the new testement is mentioned only as regards Jesus etc. the message of Christ is barely mentioned and the apostles are not mentioned at all
@JJMFB1 I just read my channel which i had never payed any attention to and saw your rantings I won't get personal about your family not knowing them for all I know they're great people and as I said before maybe you yourself are a hard working family man and as I also said before what's with Arizona and California? I never mentioned them I got a family too which you don't have the decency to respect My Dad was on Iwo Jima and I was in Vietnam and my son was in Desert Storm you should read it
@NolifeRob yes you're right I remember back in the 1970s Anthony Quin made a film "the Prophet" it was about the prophet Mohamed It opened in New York and Muslims protestested and to my disgust the movie was pulled At that time Islam did not have the influence it has now People protested films about Christ but they were not pulled It's bad enough that some Muslim countries have oligarghic dictatorships but now we in the West have to put up with this shit!!!!! It's a disgrace
@elamite66 How can you take both sides in this argument,you talk censorship in the 70's because a movie was about moh. the killer,and even more today you can show Jesus in a glass of piss or shit thrown all over him and we Christians hate it but turn the other cheek,but in Sweden and most of the world these moslem crazies kill and riot all the time,they live in the dark ages,if I had my way screw PC,I would put a pig in every moslem terrorists grave then they would not see allah or the virgins
@JJMFB1 I DON'T LIKE CENSORSHIP IS THAT SO HARD TO UNDERSTAND i'M FROM NEW YORK AND ON 9-11 i WOULD HAVE LIKED NOTHING BETTER THAN TO HIT MECCA WITH TOMOHAWK MISSLES YOU DON'T SOUND TO ME LIKE YOU READ THE KORAN JUST READ ABOUT IT YOU'LL NEVER GET THE WHOLE TRUTH WITHOUT PRIMARY RESEARCH NOT SOME RABBLE ROUSING POLITICAL MORONS ON FOX NEWS OR THE LIKE I'M ALSO SICK OF HEARING ABOUT PC HOW ABOUT FACTS? PARAPHRASING SOME QUOTES FROM THE KORAN DOESN'T MEAN YOU READ IT NOW DOE'S IT? KNOW YOUR ENEMY
Hard to believe that some folks didn't know what/where Mecca is and its context in this song. Gene had it right about the girl across the street. I am reminded of another song by Billy Joe Royal I believe along the same line.
@itchycoopark2 myself also I was 12 when the record came out and I loved it and understood the conotation of Mecca I guess because I was always interested in history, in any case great song, great song writer and great vocalist and probably great musician, producer etc.
Back in 1963, I heard this song only once and then it just disappeared from radio - back in Taiwan, I was only 11. But I knew the song title has to do with something like "Mecca". More than 40 years later, I found the song for sell under Gene Pitney and bought it, so glad that so many people here knew and liked this song. Good song to sing along in the car when you are in the Oldies mood. Brought back all the fond memories.
actually some of us who were teens in the 60s not only knew what Mecca was, we also knew that the line in this song "East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet" comes from the Rudyard Kipling poem The Ballad of East and West.
I bet most kids who bought this when it was popular didn't even know where or what Mecca was or it's significance in the song. At first I thought he meant that, like Mecca is to non-Muslims, his girlfriend's house was forbidden to him, then I realized what he meant was that he worshipped it, like Muslims do Mecca.
@Stormy868 Muslims do face Mecca when they pray. Pitney (or, I should say to be so utterly precise, the character singing in "Mecca") faces his girl friend's house when he prays. That is what the reference to Mecca in the song was about. I should have stated it more carefully. Muslims worship God, not Mecca, but they do regard Mecca as a sacred city, do they not? If not, please correct me and elaborate on this.
And by the way, what does the Koran say about the use of profanity?
I am a Muslim too. But I do respect how the other people think about us, even if they have had a wrong informations about Islam. Because people do not have a clear picture yet. So, we most make it clear to them. But what I saw by your replay will never make a sense. If you really Muslim, do not tarnish the image of Islam by using dirty words. And you most know that you only represent yourself if you say bad words or bad things.
@motowngirl65 I know how you feel but I heard the same thing when I was a kid, there's always good music and there's always bad music no generation has a lock on what's good or bad music
Spring, '63, I was 16 y/o, and lost in another world every time I heard this masterpiece by one of the Best voices of the 60's. What drama, what production, what a vocal. Young people of today : hear what you're missing! Wolfsky9
I was 16 in '63 too! I feel the same way. I remember going to a dance and the boy I liked didn't like me. I would dance a slow dance close with someone else and look over their shoulder to see him... ah, wax poetic. it's one reasons I became a lyricist... when I couldn't express my feelings to another, I put them down on paper, still do... I guess it kind of eases things; keeps things in perspective; I can feel the balance and drama. much love to you in your future. Toronto.
this song always amuses me -if you want to read into it the flute is the unattainable girl while the duane eddy-esque guitar is the pining american(pronounced mair-cun)
I had many issues with my wife, for years prior to getting married. Now on our 33rd year. I often said that, if I had it to do over again, I would have just been more honest with myself and my feelings. The lesson is not to make the same mistake twice.
The instrument at the opening I don't believe is a true "fakir's flute" - an instrument that's almost unlistenable to western ears. I think that it's actually a schwam - a wide double reed ancestor of the modern oboe which came to Europe via the Middle East. Today, the schwam is commonly found either in early music groups or in oriental band units in the Shriners fraternity. The major drawback of the schawm was that it is virtually impossible to play it softly. Best if played outdoors!
VinDcator - the soprano MIGHT have been Cissy Houston, mother of the [in]famous Whitney. She was known to have been on some of GP's records along with many others during this time period.
Thank you Brent441 for posting my favorite Gene Pitney song with lyrics. Now I understand it. On my record (Album) I always thought he sings "my baby lives IN mecca" instead of "IS" mecca, meaning forbidden territory. Now they have the same situation in Bosnia f. i. in Mostar.
The Bush family played this for the Bin Laden clan during there visits to the Bush family estate. The two families have a long and close history and have gotten incredibly wealthy together. Also weird but true. Bush and Bin Laden Sr were at a Carlyle Group meeting together on 9/11. What are the odds?
Don't spread lies especially on such a touchy subject, if don't know facts.
Bush SR was onboard private yacht loaned by Greek tycoon in Sep. '01 cruising the Mediterranean and Bin Laden, with whom the Bush family had severed ties 3-4 years prior in '97 or '98, nowhere in sight.
Based on above, not sure if your last sentence holds merit either, Osama absolutely hates anything that's American, FYI.
Ignorant child. Bush Sr was in Washington D.C. at a Carlyle Investor Group Meeting along with Shafig bin Ladin, the brother of Osama. Case closed, this is a fact, you are foolish and wrong. Ask your boss at the fast food joint, she might be able to tell you this.
March 16, 2003; check it out. The attendance of both Bush Sr and Bin Ladens brother is explicitly mentioned in his article entitled Connections And Then Some , page F1. What is the reference for your utter fantasy?
I was just a kid when this tune hot the top 10 chart, Back in those days all muisic from folk country rocknroll were all played side by side, early man learned to communicate,
Although nearly every Gene Pitney song is perfection, I've always felt Mecca to be his very best, along with Half Heaven Half Heartache - his songs are UNIFORMLY heads & tails above what his contemporaries were doing at the time, and he never gave less than his all into a recording, whether it was an A or B side (check out Donna Means Heartbreak), For a white guy from Connecticut, he had amazing elasticity to his voice!
I've always loved that instrumental break with that guitar solo that sounds like something that would not be out of place on a typical soundtrack to a Roger Corman film.
as a kid at my aunties christmas parties, this song was a strong favourite, funny how haunting a song like this can be for the rest of your life.. fabulous..
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"I AM THE ANTICHRIST, THOR THE THUNDER GOD, AND I WILL PERSONALLY FUCKING DEMOLISH THAT FUCKING KHABA IN THE NAME OF THE TRUE NAME OF GOD WITH MY SLEDGEHAMMER, MJOELNER, TO CELEBRATE MY 40th FUCKING BIRTHDAY !!" - youtube - watch?v=bHIpzGGOcUs - "ALLAHU AKBAR !!"
polterguy2 1 week ago
Eeeeeeeeeeeeecum!!! Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeecum!
Diablo666Daemon666 1 month ago
from now on i'll listen to this excellent song on a different channel so i don't have to deal with all the bullshyte about islam......................
samisunc 2 months ago in playlist More videos from Brent441
Great song from the 60s!
azzarbprime1 3 months ago
Love it !
Orbisonlover 3 months ago
extraordinaria voz de nuestro idolo de todos los tiempos
leopili100 3 months ago
I don't like the song so I don't listen to it, but I don't care about it all that much. I don't think it should be ban because Muslims would not listen to it.
GouledXD 4 months ago
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FeatureMediaLtd 4 months ago
Gene Pitney as a rock and roll person and the Kingston Trio singing folk were my musical beginnings. I had actually forgotten he had done this song until I found it on YouTube. What is this about 1960?
TheOldpoop 4 months ago
Islam is a religion will not be properly understood
Mecca and did not touch the bad and all your words a lie
slom2926 6 months ago
NOTE; Click on (show more -bar-) to see the LYRICS to this great song...Please let me know of any omissions or errors...Thank You...
Brent441 7 months ago
Mecca n the birthplace of Mohammed, a place of pilgrimage for Muslims; a place heavily visited by, or wiyh a special attraction foa, a particular person or group, eg St Andrew as a Mecca for golfers.
divisorplot 7 months ago
Serbien General
divisorplot 8 months ago
So sad that he's gone, Rockville Connecticut is now a "Town without Pitney"
Unless you were around in this era, you can't know how hard it was to get the lyrics on ancient AM Radios...We argued for hours about this song and others, like "Moody River"...it was just too fuzzy to understand sometimes...
Dale in Alabama
vonmazur1 8 months ago
we used to swoone over him. oh he was so handsome. A lot of us would have had his baby if he would have smiled at us....Rebecca Anne
rebbeccanne 10 months ago
One of my fave's among many by Pitney. He was the first to use this mid eastern background music and it paid off.
Tonithenightowl 10 months ago
Gene Pitney was in my time a sad song singer.It was either a heart break song or a pain can't have song.But I loved his stylr and voice...Rebecca Anne..
rebbeccanne 10 months ago
@rebbeccanne The 60s had a lot of great rock and roll stars that specialized in sad songs, another one I'm sure you remember is Del Shannon.
MVillani1985 9 months ago
Only her true spirit of her heart could sing that way... thank u for responding!
VinDcator 11 months ago
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Oh for the love of God Gene was a Catholic, this is a song nothing more. Heaven, Nirvana, Mecca, Summerland, its all the same. It means where love IS.
Tonithenightowl 11 months ago
When I was in high school in the early 70's ,a friend and I went to a girls
house after school . There were a few girls there and we were listening to records
One of them put this record on and did a little Egyptian dance , I feel in love with her
right then! She had dark hair and had it in a poney tail. Too bad I never saw her again. I never saw anything so sensual up until that time. Now every time I hear this song
I think of her!
chuc555 1 year ago
@chuc555 coooool
bigeeezy 11 months ago
@chuc555 What a MISS! I've been there, and again!! How I wish I had know what to say and what to do! I share your disappointment , and your JOY, for the memory of that beautiful girl!
VinDcator 11 months ago
Sorry about the spelling Professor but I was typing fast, NO I am not muslim but yes I have read it, if you had you'd know that Abraham, Moses, Joshua, Ishmael, John the Baptist, Jesus, Joseph and Mary are mentioned in it You think Mohammed got that direct from God? Christianity and Judism were a big influence on him he expexted to be the final prophet and to be accepted Actually I don't believe any of it, it's all myth Did you read the Koran? I doubt it but I read Mein Kampf too and I'm no nazi
elamite66 1 year ago
I'm just saying I don't like censorship no matter who's doing it, yes the Muslims are the guilty party now at least for the most and I mean most part, I was just mentioning that censorship based on religion, or anything else, has been used for centuries including by Christians I agree with you on the Muslim Jihad issue completey I was just putting it in a broader sense
elamite66 1 year ago
Thank you, Brent. Are some saying that love can't live in Mecca?
lamarlansing 1 year ago
and just how many separate beats are going on in here? I count at least five. Great post.
MrChicagoPaul 1 year ago
what a great piece of music....besides that, I usually don't leave comments on here but inkerbellamusic's tiny comment made me (to use that person's language) f..king mad - if we were as rude and small brained as you, Tinkerbell, we'd make a "stoopid" remark like the one you left on here, but we're not on your level. So we just pray that you're just a single case of a NAZI in this world. unfortunately it's known that this planet is still packed with dummies like you.
MrGisberts 1 year ago
fuck the muslims
tinkerbellamusic 1 year ago
@tinkerbellamusic Fuck the bigots. (Yes, the irony is not lost on me.)
UraniumAngel 1 year ago
He had a fantastic voice!
zaaritha 1 year ago
love love love this song, and do not think it is insulting.
goldcherries 1 year ago
Mecca is a city in California. Zip code 92254.
ffc313 1 year ago
@ffc313 Yeah, but brownstone houses make me think of Brooklyn NY!
weightfeather1 1 year ago
I live on the West side, she lives on the East side of the stree-ee-eet
And though they say that East is East and West is West
And never the twain shall meet
Each morning I face her window and pray that our love can be
'cause that brownstone house where my baby lives
Is Mecca (Mecca, Mecca, Mecca) Mecca (Mecca, Mecca) to me-e-e-e-e-e.
Oh she's my dream goddess and her ruby lips are so div-i-ine
And though her folks say we're too young to know of love
I worship at her shrine
vergeharget 1 year ago
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Archangel101576 1 year ago
Thank you for the lyrics! I never had understood the fisrt line of the second verse.
CraigSD 1 year ago
My mom just told me about this song. She said when she was a kid she'd play it over and over again on her little record player. ;) ... hm.
willow003 1 year ago
Thanks for posting this song with lyrics. After 47 years I fully understand what he was saying. "Brownstone house", which still sounds distorted, were words I never understood before. Sad but true what people have said about what would happen if this song was released today, with the PC police and terrorists.
robertrfj 1 year ago
What a unique sound.
hackman1911 1 year ago
Gene Pitney never won a Grammy but his recording of Town Without Pity won an Oscar.
WytZox1 1 year ago
@WytZox1 Actually, Town Without Pity did not win the Oscar....the award went to Moon River
kiddnc 1 year ago
If Pitney had released this song in America today, the PC police would accuse him of insulting Islam. The self-righteous Muslims would - as always - play the victim card, feign outrage, and demand that his record label fire him. It's pathetic how far we've fallen as a society.
Archangel101576 1 year ago
@Archangel101576 FUCK THE PC POLICE!!!
mikethegent 1 year ago
this song was so different for it's time and of course no one but Gene could pull it off with aplomb
Tonithenightowl 1 year ago
went to high school in Connecticut with this guy...loved this song better than " Rock the Casbah" only one better was "Town without Pitney"
vonmazur1 1 year ago
Why haven't the Muzzies declared JIHAD on Gene Pitney??
Godzilla1985 1 year ago
@Godzilla1985 Maybe because he is gone....
that song was published in the early 60's
veredw 1 year ago
Wasn't it great to hear this song on the radio in 1963 and not have to worry about the Muslims protesting it?
soulguy10306 1 year ago
The ONLY religion is love.
windberjohnstown 1 year ago
There was a British group that made the number 43 spot on radio Caroline's hitparade with this song in 1964. Can anyone tell?
laurenswesselingh 1 year ago
Have always wondered who was the session singer with that great angelic, operatic voice? Wonderful post!
VinDcator 1 year ago
Is your name Brent or are you involved in the oil business?
jimbobubbadj 1 year ago
@jimbobubbadj Brent Oil and WTI Oil are 2 pricing mechanisms for oil.
jimbobubbadj 1 year ago
Gene's been gone several years already. It doesn't seem possible.
veritasvg 1 year ago
God, this man had such a great voice. What range. Sad he died so suddenly of a heart attack.
He was one of my rock idols growing up. Many don't know he was an excellent writer. He wrote Hello Mary Lou for Rick Nelson.
JustAGuyNamedSteve1 1 year ago
When I first heard this song, I was about seven years old and thought this had to be a really cute guy, and he was.
247GPfan 1 year ago
What a well crafted song, both writer and singer. Excellant.
Building529 1 year ago 2
its a town in cal.-featured in wild angels/ bruce dern
phillfoote 1 year ago
@Brent441 It sounds like my "teen" goddess not "dream".
guidoman 2 years ago
Lol me, I love this song.
justlooking213 2 years ago
where are the lyrics?
chucknchar 2 years ago
@chucknchar try lyric directory.n e t I had to put spaces in so it would take it..dont put the spaces in they should have them..Rebecca Anne.
rebbeccanne 10 months ago
@chucknchar try lyric directory.n e t I had to put spaces in tthe word net so it would take it..dont put the spaces in they should have them..Rebecca Anne.
rebbeccanne 10 months ago
he did have a lot of realy good hit and my wife loves them all exspealey a town without pitty. she says she grew up in a small town whee every one knew every one elses bizness execpt ther own(Marienville)
donald42dunkle 2 years ago
Oh, no! Gene was in love with an Islamofascist!!!!
motelcalifornia 2 years ago
Love this song by Gene Pitney... what a
talented guy! Bravo, Gene!
LADYSEASTAR 2 years ago 5
This was a hot song on CKLW In Detroit
in 1963 a very big request,Gene had many
good songs,bring back many good memories.
Gregory195216 2 years ago
I picture Mecca with camels, oil, woman in veils, palm trees, mosques and dunes.
jimbobubbadj 2 years ago
Although the song refers to a symbolic Mecca, I had the same reaction when I heard it a few minutes ago, after a couple of decades.
avidreader111 2 years ago
The best song from Gene Pity. Brings back many a fond memory.
wyip52 2 years ago 2
To NolifeRob, it would have been a fatwa, like the one issued on Salman Rushdie. GP never would have been able to travel outside the USA.
njva17420 2 years ago
@njva17420 BWAAhaha... Salman... that Salman, he was in a real rush to die.
DancingSpiderman 2 years ago
Huh???
njva17420 2 years ago
It's a good thing Gene didn't release this song today. Muslims would accuse him of blasphmy and make threats at him. Even 1963 had muslim americans who at least found the song sacreligious and tried to have stations ban it.
NolifeRob 2 years ago 19
@NolifeRob Do you have any foundation for that statement? You're a liar, is what you are. There were no Muslims objecting to Pitney's music at all. Get stuffed.
universalradio 1 year ago 2
@NolifeRob
You're quit right!
Fuck them muslims!!!
Gene was a great singer, may he rest in peace.
And may all them muslims follow him in peace.
If not, then in pieces.
Kluif100 1 year ago
@NolifeRob I agree, but screw the moslems they are sick ,there koran talks of peace,but their kind of peace- being you become a moslem or you are a infidel and we have the right and obligation to KILL you. read it yourself.
JJMFB1 1 year ago
@JJMFB1 yes I have read it myself, the whole book, it can be twisted just as the Bible can be twisted particularly the old testement which the Koran is based on You have heard ot the Crusades? the Spanish Conquistafors, and the Spanish Inquisition? haven't you? While at this time Islam is the most violent of the prosylitizing religions Christianity has been repeonsible for having infidels burned at the stake A few centuries ago the Western World had no separation of church and state either
elamite66 1 year ago
@elamite66 Your moslem to say what you say,next try to write in english your spelling is so bad. Since you claim to have read the koran,then you would see it tells moslems to kill infidels,how can the koran be based on old testament, Moh.got the koran he claims direct from God,odd God picked a warlord who could not read or right,and on his death bed his aunt asked if she will meet him in Heaven,he replied he wasn't sure where he was going.Catholics did all that pope asked and they were wrong.
JJMFB1 1 year ago
@JJMFB1 If you had read the Koran you would know that Mohammed never claimed to have communicated directly with God, it was the arch angel Gabriel who recited God's words to him, not that I believe any of that mytholigy, so it's obbious you have not read the book, the Old Testement was pretty bloody too, the Jews under Joshua attacked Jericho with no provocation and God supposedly told them to kill every living thing from babies to dogs and they did with no reservations except for the whore
elamite66 1 year ago
@JJMFB1 Mohammad was not a warlord but a trader married to an older widow when he supposedly recieved the message in the cave, maybe later he could be called a warlord, but was not Joshua a warlord? the old testement is full of war and violence and that may be why it's such a major influence on the Koran the new testement is mentioned only as regards Jesus etc. the message of Christ is barely mentioned and the apostles are not mentioned at all
elamite66 1 year ago
@JJMFB1 I just read my channel which i had never payed any attention to and saw your rantings I won't get personal about your family not knowing them for all I know they're great people and as I said before maybe you yourself are a hard working family man and as I also said before what's with Arizona and California? I never mentioned them I got a family too which you don't have the decency to respect My Dad was on Iwo Jima and I was in Vietnam and my son was in Desert Storm you should read it
elamite66 10 months ago
@NolifeRob yes you're right I remember back in the 1970s Anthony Quin made a film "the Prophet" it was about the prophet Mohamed It opened in New York and Muslims protestested and to my disgust the movie was pulled At that time Islam did not have the influence it has now People protested films about Christ but they were not pulled It's bad enough that some Muslim countries have oligarghic dictatorships but now we in the West have to put up with this shit!!!!! It's a disgrace
elamite66 1 year ago
@elamite66 How can you take both sides in this argument,you talk censorship in the 70's because a movie was about moh. the killer,and even more today you can show Jesus in a glass of piss or shit thrown all over him and we Christians hate it but turn the other cheek,but in Sweden and most of the world these moslem crazies kill and riot all the time,they live in the dark ages,if I had my way screw PC,I would put a pig in every moslem terrorists grave then they would not see allah or the virgins
JJMFB1 1 year ago
@JJMFB1 I DON'T LIKE CENSORSHIP IS THAT SO HARD TO UNDERSTAND i'M FROM NEW YORK AND ON 9-11 i WOULD HAVE LIKED NOTHING BETTER THAN TO HIT MECCA WITH TOMOHAWK MISSLES YOU DON'T SOUND TO ME LIKE YOU READ THE KORAN JUST READ ABOUT IT YOU'LL NEVER GET THE WHOLE TRUTH WITHOUT PRIMARY RESEARCH NOT SOME RABBLE ROUSING POLITICAL MORONS ON FOX NEWS OR THE LIKE I'M ALSO SICK OF HEARING ABOUT PC HOW ABOUT FACTS? PARAPHRASING SOME QUOTES FROM THE KORAN DOESN'T MEAN YOU READ IT NOW DOE'S IT? KNOW YOUR ENEMY
elamite66 1 year ago
@NolifeRob
Thats because at that time the US wasn't dropping bombs on the heads of muslims. They were already busy doing that in vietnam.
rencrow 7 months ago
BJR's "Down In the Boondocks"
njva17420 2 years ago
Hard to believe that some folks didn't know what/where Mecca is and its context in this song. Gene had it right about the girl across the street. I am reminded of another song by Billy Joe Royal I believe along the same line.
njva17420 2 years ago 2
I loved this song as a kid and I knew what Mecca was and what the lyrics meant .. Pitney could write a lyric ...
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itchycoopark2 2 years ago
@itchycoopark2 myself also I was 12 when the record came out and I loved it and understood the conotation of Mecca I guess because I was always interested in history, in any case great song, great song writer and great vocalist and probably great musician, producer etc.
elamite66 1 year ago
Back in 1963, I heard this song only once and then it just disappeared from radio - back in Taiwan, I was only 11. But I knew the song title has to do with something like "Mecca". More than 40 years later, I found the song for sell under Gene Pitney and bought it, so glad that so many people here knew and liked this song. Good song to sing along in the car when you are in the Oldies mood. Brought back all the fond memories.
lilygreen777 2 years ago
actually some of us who were teens in the 60s not only knew what Mecca was, we also knew that the line in this song "East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet" comes from the Rudyard Kipling poem The Ballad of East and West.
annabells 2 years ago 3
herinnering aan een fijne jeugd memory off a great time in the 60
mariachris51 2 years ago
All I can think about is oil, palm trees, sand dunes, woman covered in veils and great exotic and unusual sound as mentioned in this post.
jimbobubbadj 2 years ago 2
Cool,unique song. Very different for 1963.
steven39211 2 years ago
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donnowhonono 2 years ago
Is this about a girl or Mecca? :)
RMSBraves013 2 years ago
Dear RMS Braves,
Why not google the lyrics?
Just Imagine. In 1963, in my first year at high school i loved this s0ng.
DarlinYouSendMe 2 years ago
A favourite of mine, thank you
starman511 2 years ago
This is one of my favorites from the early 60s. Gene Pitney also wrote He's a Rebel, another great hit from the 60s.
apassionateman 2 years ago
Such an exotic and unusual sound for the time in which it was recorded. Very beautiful. Thanks for posting it.
WittoWed 2 years ago
I bet most kids who bought this when it was popular didn't even know where or what Mecca was or it's significance in the song. At first I thought he meant that, like Mecca is to non-Muslims, his girlfriend's house was forbidden to him, then I realized what he meant was that he worshipped it, like Muslims do Mecca.
vinylsingleman 2 years ago 2
kind of both
gerryono 2 years ago
Deep
DarlinYouSendMe 2 years ago
In 1963, I knew where Mecca was but thought the same that his girl's house was forbidden to him. Now you explain it better here, thanks
lilygreen777 2 years ago
@vinylsingleman .. WTF 0_0 .. I'm sorry , but this was the most idiotic comment I have ever seen in my whole life ..
We don't worship mecca you dumb fuck .. we worship god , who the fuck worship a city ? you maybe i don't know !
and btw I like the song , and I'm a muslim .. so stfu
Stormy868 11 months ago
@Stormy868 Muslims do face Mecca when they pray. Pitney (or, I should say to be so utterly precise, the character singing in "Mecca") faces his girl friend's house when he prays. That is what the reference to Mecca in the song was about. I should have stated it more carefully. Muslims worship God, not Mecca, but they do regard Mecca as a sacred city, do they not? If not, please correct me and elaborate on this.
And by the way, what does the Koran say about the use of profanity?
vinylsingleman 11 months ago
@vinylsingleman .. that's more like it , and for profanity using .. then I'm a badass muslim babyyyyyy LOL
Stormy868 11 months ago
@Stormy868
I am a Muslim too. But I do respect how the other people think about us, even if they have had a wrong informations about Islam. Because people do not have a clear picture yet. So, we most make it clear to them. But what I saw by your replay will never make a sense. If you really Muslim, do not tarnish the image of Islam by using dirty words. And you most know that you only represent yourself if you say bad words or bad things.
554154138 8 months ago 2
Yes, I liked Gene as well. One of the great ones...
Apollogranforte 2 years ago
Wolfsky - I could not agree more. One reason I don't mind NOT being a young person today - they have nothing worth listeining to.
motowngirl65 2 years ago 12
Of course they have, if they just don't listen to todays shit. One can always listen to music from the past.
arashinobakemono 2 years ago
@motowngirl65 I know how you feel but I heard the same thing when I was a kid, there's always good music and there's always bad music no generation has a lock on what's good or bad music
elamite66 1 year ago
This tune goes deep down to my soul and shines.
Such a touch...humm...Still gives me a strong heartbeat. Tks. :)
laggie24 2 years ago 4
Spring, '63, I was 16 y/o, and lost in another world every time I heard this masterpiece by one of the Best voices of the 60's. What drama, what production, what a vocal. Young people of today : hear what you're missing! Wolfsky9
Wolfsky9 2 years ago 5
I was 16 in '63 too! I feel the same way. I remember going to a dance and the boy I liked didn't like me. I would dance a slow dance close with someone else and look over their shoulder to see him... ah, wax poetic. it's one reasons I became a lyricist... when I couldn't express my feelings to another, I put them down on paper, still do... I guess it kind of eases things; keeps things in perspective; I can feel the balance and drama. much love to you in your future. Toronto.
Babyluvstheblues 2 years ago 2
@Babyluvstheblues That's a beautiful story!
jacfred 11 months ago
Visiting back, and still wonderful from your post!
May we have more from you?
VinDcator 2 years ago
I was 7 Years Old when I first fell in love with this song.
Jiltedin2007 2 years ago
He had many unforgetable songs, but clearly this had to one of them, GEART song and even GREATER SINGER, R.I.P Mr. Pitney
veredw 2 years ago
A big favorite of mine. Gene Pitney was great. I still play his Greatest hits CD and remember the lyrics to every song.
rdf1947 2 years ago 2
Awesome,
Mozart282 2 years ago 2
All of Gene's songs were unique (unlike those of the Bobby Vees's, Rydell's etc)
Baskerville22 2 years ago
This is one of the best songs ever done by Pitney. He was great.
BumptiousBob 2 years ago 4
Who was the girl with the beautiful, high voice?
VinDcator 3 years ago
@VinDcator Probably just a session singer, but she sure could hit that high "C" couldn't she?
jacfred 11 months ago
this song always amuses me -if you want to read into it the flute is the unattainable girl while the duane eddy-esque guitar is the pining american(pronounced mair-cun)
renofirvine 3 years ago
I'm sure he recorded it simply for your amusement....
jhem50 2 years ago
...snicker....
laykaljos 2 years ago
I had many issues with my wife, for years prior to getting married. Now on our 33rd year. I often said that, if I had it to do over again, I would have just been more honest with myself and my feelings. The lesson is not to make the same mistake twice.
VinDcator 3 years ago
There is no Gene Pitney song that isn't first rate and sung with sincerity and skill. How we miss him - heaven must be a tuneful place with him there
AtlantaGymFan 3 years ago
Always loved this! How many girls and boys have wanted someone whom they thought were unattainable? I hope some of you wound up getting your wishes!
VinDcator 3 years ago
As Neil Sedaka one of those voices that stood out like a hood emblem on a classic American car.
koolbossjock 3 years ago
have you ever noticed that Neil Sedaka sounds like Anne Murray?
PhysicsProf1 3 years ago
sedaka IS anne murray
p1p0cr4zy 2 years ago
Great Job, Brent441!!
jetztgenug 3 years ago
this song is my name...mecca COOL
missymeccy 3 years ago
Clever lyrics + great singer/arrangement=HIT!! Thanks for posting--loved this tune since it was released.
nitrog48 3 years ago 2
I've loved this song since I was a kid. Thanks for posting the lyrics as there were a couple of lines that I could never quite work out.
"Oh she's my dream goddess" and "I worship at her shrine."
superduped 3 years ago
Well, this is a great song, i dont blame bin laden.lOl.
PinkgtrsOfficialYT 3 years ago
hmmmmmm , me too , liked it
DAL0L98 3 years ago
The instrument at the opening I don't believe is a true "fakir's flute" - an instrument that's almost unlistenable to western ears. I think that it's actually a schwam - a wide double reed ancestor of the modern oboe which came to Europe via the Middle East. Today, the schwam is commonly found either in early music groups or in oriental band units in the Shriners fraternity. The major drawback of the schawm was that it is virtually impossible to play it softly. Best if played outdoors!
Dogsledfan 3 years ago
VinDcator - the soprano MIGHT have been Cissy Houston, mother of the [in]famous Whitney. She was known to have been on some of GP's records along with many others during this time period.
Dogsledfan 3 years ago
Thank you Brent441 for posting my favorite Gene Pitney song with lyrics. Now I understand it. On my record (Album) I always thought he sings "my baby lives IN mecca" instead of "IS" mecca, meaning forbidden territory. Now they have the same situation in Bosnia f. i. in Mostar.
rerl60s 3 years ago
Who was that person behind that beautiful soprano voice?
VinDcator 3 years ago
this was Bin Ladens favorite pop tune as a kid, weird but true.
sonorousmass 3 years ago
Where did you hear this?
TheMerseySound 3 years ago
The Bush family played this for the Bin Laden clan during there visits to the Bush family estate. The two families have a long and close history and have gotten incredibly wealthy together. Also weird but true. Bush and Bin Laden Sr were at a Carlyle Group meeting together on 9/11. What are the odds?
sonorousmass 3 years ago
really? i was pretty sure bush was reading a childrens book to a bunch of schoolkids on september 11th.
mistarcraw 3 years ago
I should have said that Bush SR was with Bin Laden Sr on that day. Yes George Jr was holding a book upside down and sitting with children.
But Osama loved this song, in fact he bacame a big Pitney fan. The only shred of humanity and intelligence the rotten bastard ever displayed.
LazloLorenzo 3 years ago
LazloLorenzo,
Don't spread lies especially on such a touchy subject, if don't know facts.
Bush SR was onboard private yacht loaned by Greek tycoon in Sep. '01 cruising the Mediterranean and Bin Laden, with whom the Bush family had severed ties 3-4 years prior in '97 or '98, nowhere in sight.
Based on above, not sure if your last sentence holds merit either, Osama absolutely hates anything that's American, FYI.
gyrene1966 3 years ago
Incidentally, Osama is highly intelligent and Oxford educated.
gyrene1966 3 years ago
Ignorant child. Bush Sr was in Washington D.C. at a Carlyle Investor Group Meeting along with Shafig bin Ladin, the brother of Osama. Case closed, this is a fact, you are foolish and wrong. Ask your boss at the fast food joint, she might be able to tell you this.
LazloLorenzo 3 years ago
I will cite as a reference the Washington Post
Greg Schneider Washington Post Staff Writer
March 16, 2003; check it out. The attendance of both Bush Sr and Bin Ladens brother is explicitly mentioned in his article entitled Connections And Then Some , page F1. What is the reference for your utter fantasy?
LazloLorenzo 3 years ago
sonorousmass,
You're full of crap
gyrene1966 3 years ago
i heard something like that before
SIMPLYME100 3 years ago
This was a big hit for him. One of my favorites!
paullaflamme 3 years ago 2
my absolute favorite!
geesoul 3 years ago
I was just a kid when this tune hot the top 10 chart, Back in those days all muisic from folk country rocknroll were all played side by side, early man learned to communicate,
cycimian 3 years ago 2
never even heard of this song before. wow.
sallygal7 3 years ago
This is my fave Gene Pitney song!! It has such a rhythmic element to it. Cissy Houston's haunting operatic wail is beautiful placed within the song!
*Dee Dee Wawrick, Sylvia Shemwell, & Estelle Brown also sing background on this!
theFRESHESTsilk 3 years ago 4
Although nearly every Gene Pitney song is perfection, I've always felt Mecca to be his very best, along with Half Heaven Half Heartache - his songs are UNIFORMLY heads & tails above what his contemporaries were doing at the time, and he never gave less than his all into a recording, whether it was an A or B side (check out Donna Means Heartbreak), For a white guy from Connecticut, he had amazing elasticity to his voice!
billricub 3 years ago
dude your so awesome for this thanks brent441
mushroomslipknot415 3 years ago
Thank you for going to the extreme time and trouble to post the video AND lyrics.
Totally fabulous. You're a star Brent!
saintbarbara 4 years ago
I've always loved that instrumental break with that guitar solo that sounds like something that would not be out of place on a typical soundtrack to a Roger Corman film.
IDLERACER 4 years ago
Thanks for the great post. This is my all time favorite Gene Pitney song. And you very seldom hear it.
SO1970S 4 years ago
This song would not be a hit today, I can hear the cries of dirty infidels ringing from abroad.
transgtman 4 years ago
Brent, Roy Orbison also had a song with a Middle Eastern sound to it - "Shahdaroba." Do you have it? It is quite good too.
MerrittStDiner 4 years ago
Draadnagel has posted Shahdaroba.
WAXmyPOLE 3 years ago
WHAT A VOICE. I MISS HIM
hajune 4 years ago
as a kid at my aunties christmas parties, this song was a strong favourite, funny how haunting a song like this can be for the rest of your life.. fabulous..
ladyofhay 4 years ago
This is one of my favourite songs. Gene Pitney is great. The lyrics seem to be right. :)
AaleighaK 4 years ago
Fabulous singer ,great talent...
viccharm 4 years ago
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NOTE; Click on (more) to see the LYRICS to this great song...Please let me know of any omissions or errors...Thank You...
Brent441 4 years ago