The song starts with "I live on the west side, she lives on the east side of the street."[1] "Mecca," a city that most of the world is forbidden to visit,[2][3] symbolizes her side of the street, as the girl's parents forbid the pair to become romantically involved because of their young age.
ChartsEdit
In the U.S., "Mecca" peaked at #12 on the pop chart[4] and #4 Easy Listening.[5] 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 BillboardBubbling Under the Hot 100 chart.
^The New Yorker Volume 41, Part 1 - Page 78 "Then, a few years later (in a kind of pulsating weeper click with Casbah undertones), the urban East-West axis came under consideration, with Gene Pitney's “Mecca”: I live on the West side, She lives on the East side of the street."
^Peters, Francis E. (1994). The Hajj: The Muslim Pilgrimage to Mecca and the Holy Places. Princeton University Press. p. 206. ISBN978-0-691-02619-0.
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