His songs have been performed or covered by numerous other country singers including Waylon Jennings, Kenny Rogers and Everly Brothers as well as Tina Turner.

[3] After a few years, Gene met with aspiring crooner, Debbe Neville,[2] (or Nevills as some sources say).

[2] The latter had an eventual combined sales figure of one million discs being awarded a gold record in June 1968.

Shortly after her divorce from Gene, Debbe remarried this time to a Houston club owner, Pat Patterson, with whom she had a second son.

She continued on with her solo act until settling down and marrying her third husband in the early 1980s, with whom she gave birth to their daughter in 1983.