Australian singles chart:
Mecca entered the Kent charts on 20 April 1963 and peaked at #7. It was #61 on the Top 100 of 1963.
Songwriters:
Neval Nader, John Gluck Jr.
Producer:
Jerry Ragovoy
Record label of Australian release:
United Artists
Wikipedia:
Gene Pitney’s 1963 hit Mecca starts with “I live on the west side, she lives on the east side… of the street”, setting up an urban East-West axis scenario, sometimes seen as a theme in story and song.
It was a bigger hit in Australia at #7, than America where it reached #12.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecca_(song)
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