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  • Old but gold

  • What a song, still nothing like Del Shannon, even now. But then pop music now is a wasteland, with the likes of Lady GaGa and Justin Bieber, it's just not the same anymore. Trash is all that passes for pop music, a dumbing down of the pop audience.

    So Sad.

  • @stevieod You said it all. The worn little saying "There's nothing new under the sun" applies to it all today.

    Don Henley's "Garden of Allah" has a line in it about "notoriety getting all confused with fame", and it fits.

    Hopefully, the Bieb and Ga(g) Ga(g) will dissipate like a nasty fart under the attic fan of Time. Even Vanilla

    Ice dissed the Bieb and said that his fame will be short-lived. I hope so. The real things missing nowadays are talent and originality.

  • What a song, still nothing like Del Shannon, even now. But then pop music now is a wasteland, with the likes of Lady GaGa and Justin Bieber, it's just not the same anymore. Trash is all that passes for pop music, a dumbing down of the pop audience.

    Sad.

  • All-time great!

    Brunni

    (Street Corner Memories Radio Show)

  • the girls look like my older sisters girlfriends......I loved it when they came over

    to see her after HS.........all tall and beautful !!

  • my favorite song of all time, hands down - the modulation from major to minor is exquisite - the first Synthesizer hit - from the Musitron (modified Clavioline)

  • Apparently, Del grew up in Coopersville, Michigan. That is just a few miles from where I live, and I didn't know that until recently.

  • RIP HERO!!

  • I was thirteen when this song was in the charts, it still holds the same magic as it did then, what a song.

  • heel tof

  • Overlook the dancing girls here & just listen to Del. He was a great artist. It's DEL SHANNON. Doesnt get any better.

  • Who was that Mexican rocker who did a silly MTV video cover in the 1980s? I had recollection that it was in my archive, from those days when music video had a TV outlet...but I lost reference to it.

  • i want to thank my older brother for his collection of 45's when i was but a pain in the ass younger sister in the 1960's....this song was many of the 45's he had. i constantly asked him to play this song, and teach me the latest dance craze, after seeing them dance on american bandstand...thanks for the memories!!!!!!

  • I'm 61 and I still rock, and I have lived the evolution of rock. Joey Dee & the Starliters played at one of my eighth-grade's dance-parties in May '62, and I turned 19 at the start of the Summer of Love. And RUNAWAY is all-time tops. The kids would stand around our old record-players just shaking our heads with amazement at the sheer perfection and mystery and newness. When Runaway played at parties, hardly anyone even danced. It was so sacred. For decades, it was voted #1 in radio surveys.

  • yes... dude

  • God bless you, Joramba

  • that's it

  • This is timeless! Im 37 and my dad use to listen to this in the car when i was a kid. Great stuff.

  • You and your Dad have great taste in music. I'm 59, and I remember hearing this with my Dad in the car when it first came out. You are right about this song being TIMELESS - our children and grand-children will love this song as much as we and our parents did.

  • You could probably get one of those bouncing Bettys in an old peoples home. This was recorded in 1961. Great stuff Del

  • lol

  • Those bouncin Bettys are a crack up ..... Where can I get me one? : )

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  • Whats with the dancing people. Its annoying, my fave part is piano solo

  • Is a MUSITRON (Type of CLAVIOLINE) SOLO..Not Piano

  • This man had a heart of gold. He did nice things for little people without media attention.

  • thank God for chicks who like to dance. women dancing all crazy to a great song is probably the second-best thing in the world.

  • I concur. Of all the early 60s vids I have seen, the choreography for the girls is absolutely mad. Just out there, but fun...

  • I remember this song when I was in the

    6th grade and my teacher let me bring in my transister radio the last few days of school in June 1961. We were basically through but had a couple days left to go before summer vacation. Everyone enjoyed listening to KJR in Seattle, Washington!

  • I love the past. The day when Del Shannon commits suicide on February 8, 1990, with a 22 caliber rifle, is still far away.

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  • Dá vontade irresistível de entrar na festa ... (I would like so much enter that party ...)

  • PUTA MÚSICA, HEIN?

  • All those girls jigging about then are grannies now. We who were teenagers then will never grow old. We were there when Rock was born. The music is still being played now, half a century later . Power to the people who played rock and roll. May it ever be so.

  • i dealt will a lot of girls in my ford zephyr mk II thanks to del. it feels like a silly crime . tee hee

  • all of those girls throwed up after de show lol. sweet video

  • I first heard "Runaway" in 1964, when I happened to wake up in the middle of the night to find it playing on my transistor radio. I had bought "Little Town Flirt," and so was intrigued hear what was obviously Del Shannon's voice singing this eerie, amazing song which I had never heard before that night.

  • Del really played, but the thing is, he sped the recorded tracks up a 1/4 speed on the release. Listen to live versions as compared to recorded versions.

  • Was he really playing that guitar? I never heard it at all in the song. This bugs me for some weird reason O_o

  • i luv this song!

  • AMO ESTO, QUE ELEGANCIA

  • LOVE IT!!

  • Heard this song the very 1st time it was played on UK radio - on Radio Luxembourg - whilst listening to my transistor radio under my pillow (so Mum n' Dad couln't hear their young son was jivin' not sleepin'). The next day at school we met each other with the words - "Did you hear it! - Runaway!!?" - the record hit us like a bolt of lightning; the phrase we didn't use then was "blew me away" - but that's what it did. It's still my all-time favourite "Desert-Island disk"

  • My Grandfather used to listen to American Jazz just after the war had finished on his transistor radio, and ever since then he was interested in it. I'm sure his parents would have had the same concern if they heard him playing it.

  • @Lowdenjim i was not born, great song.

  • A PIECE OF ROCKNROLL GOLD.

  • This is a good song, one of my favorites... I should have been born about 40 years earlier than I was.

  • indeed :p

  • @samanthastarr Hey Sam this was a great era for pop songs,you know it may have been the best of all times,from say 60 to 67 there was some great songs wrote.

  • 60s chicktastic! I'm an anachronism for SURE

  • I love this song! I got a cd of 60s songs and this was the seconed one, my mum and dad got annoyed though, because I never stopped playing it!!

  • CatLitterone: I love the youngsters putting their ages on YT...maybe in part saying that though they live now through such rubbish they wish they had lived during the 50's/60's!!!Good for them. I was in 7th grade when this came out in '61 and I love it as much now as I did then....having heard it a "gazillion" times

  • Unfortunely I was'nt born on the good time of the 50's. But born in critical situation ( Platinum Blonde ) I'm born in 1970. Live was hard here untill 1996. Platinum Blond was also provide by Neil Pearl Rush Drummer if I'm wrong... But listen to '' It does'nt really matter '' on their first album.

  • The number one song, the day I was born. What a classic.

  • I here ya I was botn in 61

  • does everyone know that he commited suicide in 1990 but shoot himself in the head with a rifle

  • Del is yet another example of a tortured musical great gone before his time but he left us with his legacy....His music....What a Legacy!!

  • when is this filmed ?

    I know the song is from 1961.

    But the style in this film looks more like 1964 or so ?

  • A real classic,loved by old and young. Anybody got any history on this video? The circle of mindless chicks Etc.??

  • It looks like it was filmed on the Hollywood a go go show from the mid to late 60's.

  • My mom introduced me to this music growing up. Great songs they are too.

  • wot a song, 1'm 16 and i used to get this played to me wen i was like 5

    great classic

  • why do all teenagers have the desire to post their age up on youtube? the music itself transcends age... this music, unlike rap, is as indelible and memorable as mozart and beethoven. it will live forever.

  • Not 'all' teenagers post their age in comments!? And in the case of this video, they'd only be referring to the fact that the music today, as you say, 'transends' it's age and is still just as great for them as it was for the generation back in the 60's. This is not a bad thing!

  • Great song!!

    Look for this video "Runaway 2K"

  • Wall, Imust agree.

  • i freakin love this song!

  • This used to be played at Wigan Casino. I was sipping hot gluhwein up on the piste in a Ski Chalet in Austria at 9am, the morning Del Shannon's death was announced on the radio news, followed by a play of Runnaway. Memories of this great song and Wigan Casino stayed in my head all day as I was skiing. When I hear this now, I always remember that sad morning and the wonderful powder snow we had that day.

  • Great song.. Gotta love it!

  • Ya gotta love the circle of girls dancing around him!

  • its not for nothing they call things for the oldi goldies <3 love it i realy do!

  • This is the potential break-up song.

  • GOLD!

  • An absolute classic if there ever was one,...timeless...once a classic always a classic,Rock & Roll Gold!!!!!!!!!!

  • great song!

  • where is this from...looks like HULABALOO!

  • Rest In Peace, Del...

  • Rest in peace, angel.xx

  • I was born in '88 and I can't help but love it.

  • Ovo je najveci car...

  • I'm thirteen. I was born in '94 and I love this song.

    I wish I were alive in the 60s.

  • I was born '94 too and wish i were alive in the 60s. : )

  • dear bubthunder...slight correction: for those of us lucky enough to have lived during Del's prime years he will never be forgotten AT ALL, even for a micro-second!!!!

  • Del is a somewhat forgotten legend. This song is a tremendous blend of styles from the old days, the doo wop with a blend of country, maybe set up that why by the industry, but still perfect for its time. I love this song, and I love Del, and I play this song enough loving Motown sound and the white interpretation of the Motown sound, which is a difficult sell since Motown was mostly white-written.

    Love all the old Doo Wop. Del is too often forgotten.

  • mannnn,ah loveeeeeeee youtube.

    Such amazing videos.

    love x

  • Que buen tema.

  • Back in the sixties DEl Shannon had an album out where he did Hank Williams greatest hits, if anybody has those songs can you please put them on here , I lost that albun when i was a kid and it brings back a lot of memories,really would appreciate it.

  • 1:27

    It's the Carlton Dance!!

  • Man thats one of my greatest dreams, being a guitar hero upon a stage with go go girls and a Musitron, and maybe Holly Gollightly too...

  • I used to always think this was Roy Orbinson. Keep in mind I'm only 26 but I remember my dad used to play this all the time when I was younger.

  • What instrument is that during the break in the lyrics?

  • The key board player is playing an electric organ called a musitron. The keyboard players name is Max Crook. Max was also a cowriter of this legendary song.  This is probably one of the best examples of early 60's rock and roll. Del was one of the best.

  • finally a video that i have the moves to be in

    great song, my daddy used to play this and the beatles when i used to go run errands with him

  • Is it my imagination, or does that look like the funnest occupations on earth, dancing on one of those 60s music shows, lol!

  • This is my all time favourite song(since the moment I first heard it in 1961 when I was five)nothing has ever replaced it. I'm even going to have it played at my funeral.(Hopefully that's in the distant future !!)

  • i am 15 years old and when i was younger my dad and me used to listen to all oldies , unlike crap these days , my dad introduced me to this music and now i love it

  • too bad our school doesn't produce musicians like this anymore. It's weird to think I walk the same halls as he did.

  • wie die tanzen einfach der hammer

  • rock n roll

    a.c.a.b. from italy

  • Whywhywhywhywhywhywhy...Love it!

  • Great ! I love this song.

  • Del is from Coopersville, MI...about 12 miles or so west of Grand Rapids on I96.

  • I can't imagine anyone who knows and loves music from the 50-60's not including this on any TopTen songs of all time! "Duke of Earl" "Runaround Sue" "Stand by Me"?? Too, too many absolute treasures to count. How lucky those of us were who grew up to this music!!!!!

  • he has died when i was a teenager i missed him so much, i love his songs, especially that song

  • me and del were driving

  • Tom Petty refers to this song in his song "Running Down a Dream."

  • i luv em' to.bill

  • del(charles)was from the g.r.mi area.this was recorded in jackson-mi in a nightclub.detroit had nothing to do with this wonder----detroit was a shit hole that could have never been included in the rest of the state!those of us from the smaller cities always think of "det" as there city and the rest of michigan doesn't want to know.tks billl

  • Just has to be one of the greatest pop songs ever

  • I wo-wo-wo-wo-wonder if Del was wishing the go-go dancers would just run away out the door for once.

  • Del Shannon was most definately a great singer , he will be missed by all of the oldies freaks including me.

  • thanks for posting this

  • This is GREAT music! Luis Cardenas (1980's or possibly 1990's?) also did this song. I love both versions!

  • groovy.

  • Awesome post, thank you very much.

  • I love these times :)

    I love these SONGS!@!!

  • check out "that runaway man"

  • great..

  • This was my very favourite tune when I was in the twelfth grade. Thanks for the memories.

  • i love this song .. :)

  • finely i was searching for this song 3 years didnt and didnt know the name of it !

    so happy :P

  • My favourite oldie EVER. So epic.

  • totally agree

  • love this song have since i was about 6 haha im only 18 now :P

    oldies r great especially this stuff and 60s girl groups :D

  • truly grand!

  • so good

  • Tuuuuuuuuuuuuuneeeeeeeeeeee

  • I was nine when this came out....still a fantastic song!!

  • AWESOME!!!

  • im only 15 but i love oldies now theres nothin but hip-hop i kinda like it but i love oldies this song is a classic!

  • this song was a little before my time,but a fav of the do-wop era,along with the Diamonds and the Drifters.

  • Great song.

    R.I.P

    Del Shannon

  • Immortal!

  • @deee2: ABSOLUTELY!!!

  • his best song

  • How right you are, GenuineVanillaFace!!!

  • fucking excellent i heard this song in american grafitti, many good songs in that movie

  • Wow!

    I love this song!

    I love 60's and 50's! Oldies all in all!

  • Runaway... one of the best songs of all time...

    Forever Del Shannon R.I.P.

  • Del Shannon-Charles Westover- he's a Michigan man--Coopersville Michigan--what a great guy--sadly he took his life--why-why-why!!

  • Another point: How many remember the NBC hit series "Crime Story" which ran on the network from 1986-1988"? This was the theme song!

  • But the lyrics were altered.

  • This song is almost(or I think)47 years old! I was born in August of 1961 so, I too, will be 47!

  • Im 25 years old and I think this is GREAT music. The music of my generation cant compare...

  • iam 25 aswell and have all the great golden oldies on cd...my mates think iam sad but they dont know good music.

  • This was the # 1 song on the day I was born 5/4/1961. Fun doing research on the year one was born. remember hearing this song when growing up.

  • Very great song. I did a project on him in 4th grade and became much acquianted with this song (I'm 18).

  • i heart this song when im was a lilte boy , and love it but not rememver the name ,only rememver the lyrics say "wanted" so i serche this part of the lyrics in google i never fund the song because the song say "wonder".

    i stay 15 yeras serching this song .

    now i found i can die in paz

  • great post 5big***** fantastic

  • I love this song!!

  • One of the best songs to come out of the early 60s.

  • You will always be No One Del and I love you,caro

  • Along w/ "Runaround Sue" "Duke of Earl" "Pls Mr. Postman"..these are the greatest songs ever for me personally!! thanks for this priceless posting...

  • i wa wa wa wa wonderrrrrrrrrr

  • A song so good that it's often taken for granted. Not so in1961- No.1 for 5 weeks. Former carpet salesman from Mich.makes good.

  • Actually it was 3 weeks from july 1st - july 22nd knocked off by the everly brothers with temptation

  • Billboard has it No. 1 for 5 wks. in USA. Ratings certainly can differ in other localities. Temptation doesn't rate highly here at all.

  • one of my all time Favs!

  • if you guys like Del and Max Crook, check out the TORNADOS, one of the best clavoline-based instrumental groups in the early 60's.

  • jr high i think gogo GIRLS hulabaloo surf bunnies and a tube driven organ.........WHAT MORE DO YOU NEED......... PEACE CHILEDOUG

  • I was a high school senior in 1973 when American Graffiti came out and this song was on the album. At that time everyone was saying how "retro" is was and there would be no interest. ROTFL!!! It was a major hit then and it keeps on going now!!! Thanks!!!

  • this is sooo gooood

  • I'm totally consent to SUPERCHICKENPIE. best music ever! This kind of music will never be again exist in todays & future times...So sad that del shot himself...

    RIP!

  • i was born in 1992 on yeay after enter sandman and smells like teen spirit

  • Jajaja la canción me encanta,pero eske me da la risa al ver a las chicas dando vueltas,ké bailecitos se llevaban antes

  • Que sabes de la vida si apenas empiezas a vivir, espera a que madures y ya veras.

  • This man have an amplifier valves (EL34, EL84, 6L6) in your throat.

    Beautiful voice.

  • *--*

  • what a stupid comment from a stupid yank lordandor