Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart

Infobox Single
Name = Something's Gotten Hold of my Heart


Artist = Marc Almond & Gene Pitney
from Album = The Stars We Are
B-side =
Released = October 1988
Format = 7" vinyl, 12" vinyl,CD single
Recorded =
Genre = Pop
Length = 4'41
Label = EMI
Writer = Roger Greenaway & Roger Cook
Producer = Bob Kraushaar
Chronology = Marc Almond
Last single = "Bitter Sweet"
(1988)
This single = "Something's Gotten Hold of my Heart"
(1988)
Next single = "Only the Moment"
(1989)"Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart" is a popular song written by Roger Greenaway and Roger Cook.

Originally recorded by Gene Pitney in 1967 the song reached #5 on the UK singles chart but failed to chart in the USA. The song was subsequently covered by a number of other acts including Cilla Black, Terry Reid and Nick Cave on his 1986 album of covers "Kicking Against the Pricks". It was sung in French by Herbert Léonard in 1968 with title "Quelque chose tient mon cœur".

It achieved its greatest success in 1988 when it was covered by Marc Almond. Originally recorded by Almond alone for his 1988 album "The Stars We Are", the single version reunited it with its original singer Gene Pitney, their version became a number one single in the UK for four weeks in January 1989. Sales were boosted particularly by the two vocalists' appearance on the Terry Wogan TV show as it was climbing the charts. Pitney's US record company declined to issue the record in America on the grounds that buyers would mistake it for a vocal duet by two gay men, Almond being leather-clad as usual, and Pitney dressed in a white tuxedo.