Eugene Pitt has been played on NTS in shows including Supporter Radio - Heartbreak, featured first on 16 April 2023. Songs played include Sugar (Don't Take Away My Candy).

Eugene Sampson Pitt (Brooklyn, New York, USA, November 6, 1937 – June 29, 2018) was an American soul singer and founding member of The Jive Five.

He first formed a group with some schoolfriends in 1954 called the Genies, in which he was the lead singer. There were no recordings from this group.

In 1959 he, together with Jerome Hanna, Richard Harris, Norman Johnson, and Billy Prophet, formed The Jive Five. Among their classic doo-wop recordings released on…