Del Shannon - Runaway (Rare Stereo Version)

[Emmitt321]

Ya know,i was born in 98 but i dont listen to the crap they come up with now,i listen to the best songs in the world THE OLDIES FTW!!!!

[lightlyone]

This was sooooo big. Still great! We played this so many times one afternoon at the local milkshaker that the manager came out to see what was 'wrong' with the jukebox!

[mtc1982mtc]

From Brazil

Beautiful melody... congratulations.

Peace!

[Realist81]

I'm born at the wrong time

[DominikaSlawik]

PO PROSTU MIODZIO :)



[gringosloth]

A couple nights ago we're sitting around a table in the courtyard in this little apartment complex in Costa Rica--all kinds of folks, from CR, the U.S., Canada. A little beer & barbecue. Then one guy brings out his guitar, launches into "Runaway," & everybody just jumps in on that iconic falsetto: "I wonder, wah-wah-wah-wah wonder...why: why-why-why-why-why she ran away..." A perfect night, strangers coming together to harmonize on Del's half-century-old song. Just a great moment!

[RecordKing44]

This version sounds better than the correct one!!

[JayMalone]

This song inspired "I'll Be Back" by The Beatles

[Billabongnoah]

I remember back in my day when ..Youtube started and this song was on here. ^^

[Matthewsmollen4]

This was heard in American Graffiti.

[LindsayThomson16]

I LOVE THIS SONG.

wish i could of experienced the "american graffiti" days

[Brazilshirley]

@LindsayThomson16 I lived during those days. The whole world ended when Viet Nam sent so many of my generation to an awful war. JFK was shot in Dallas, then Martin, and Bobby. I got married in 63 and the whole world just fell apart in a few short years. The music remembers even if our memories are as clear as they once were. Love being young as growing old isn't for the faint of heart.

[novy0919]

i like the slow version.

[10xiomara]

Wow I love this song

[Zellodine]

Reminds me of my first love

[jerrygarcia002]

dream lover by bobby darin is another good song too,but runaway is one of my favorites.

[CenaTv2]

For people who dont know, this is TAKE 1 of the song. The version released on the 45 was TAKE 2.

[TheOCULUSDEI]

i wonder if pass SOPA law can i still listen this beautiful songs. Rally i wo...wo..wonder :( maybe ill sing it this before the internet go to hell

[TRUE0UTLAW]

LOVE THIS SONG.

[Kila0921]

Im 16 and I love this song :)

[MrBillc1023]

One of my favorite rock and soul tunes. A timeless classic that is still used today to either capture the era or express the sentiment of loss. When I hear it today I can still feel a man who wonders, wah. wah.wah ,wqh, wonders about his lost love.

[coucoubird1]

How can you not get up and dance to this song?

[danpfd]

This is one of the all-time great songs.... Great music will never die! (no matter how much they try with the so called "music" of today! )

[Urbsh]

I've always loved this track, as well as hats off to Larry. Shame Del killed himself :(

[TheHoustonStreet]

This is one of those rare, very special songs that always give me goose bumbs no matter how many times I hear it...a true, definitive, timeless classic!

[themightyjaybird]

This is actually an alternate take on the track, and the only one preserved in stereo. Very close to the original single release, but some slight differences in the vocal.

[classicfest]

Nossa adoro essa musica ..

não a conhecia até 2009 qdo a ouvi eu logo dei um jeito baixala .

hj ela faz parte do arquivo e é uma das minhas preferidas..

[violinmke]

Beautiful didn't know it was in stereo at all saw him at a giant mega bar called lulus in Kitchener canada

[Georg5555]

i heared this song from a tv serie called heroes xD it was playing on the background radio on a car while a conversation was going on 

[harmageden]

Maybe this is why a ran away a lot as a kid !

[nomerompasloshevos]

Listen to this in mars

[mmhamil29]

too funny! Loved crusin 10th Street, then McHenry Avenue!

[Vasilouxxx]

Listen to this in 2012 and 2013

[TheLordHighXcutioner]

Listening to this in 2342!!!

[kenpachix11x]

Kick ass

[iloverock370]

may dad got me into this music when i was little i still listen to it today and it was before my time i wish my kids would listen to some of these than they would see what music is

[SuperMalcymalc]

i was 10 years old when this song came out and still think its great

[elincer1]

i officialy say this was the greatest song in the 60s

[comedyshorts2]

Great rarity of a favorite. Maximllian (possibly misspelled) is the fantastic organist.

[HauptmannWittman]

Mens only at the skating rink !

[PhoenixxxStar]

I love his voice N the lryics. I wah, wah, wah, wonder.....my little run-run-run-Runaway.

[jashilsdonmusic]

Del Shannon was the first American artist to record a Lennon/McCartney song, From Me To You, he learned while on European tour, and which was recorded and released before the Beatles were known here. Don't remember the exact dates. I was there and saw it happen.

[PhoenixxxStar]

This song is way too long for me.

[jashilsdonmusic]

@PhoenixxxStar ADD.

[mlthomp1981]

Wish they still made music this good today

[WorldOfRock4U]

Love It!!!

Thanks for posting!!!

[09bnunez]

classic song from the 60s by the late del shannon,,rip

[grisse1981]

nice song so cool :)

[SuperMaxryder]

Keep your heart young, FOREVER YOUNG!, And seek Persiphonie!

[mateobrat]

This is what I call music!

[anticochon1]

577 pussies dont like real music 

[MrHaiqal121]

@anticochon1 Hmm Dude Lets See Eh? Are You Retarded The Fucking 577 People Love Old Songs And You Gotta Problem?

[anticochon1]

@MrHaiqal121 FUCK YOU PIECE OF SHIT... GO FUCK YOUR MOTHER AND LET ME ALONE. FUCK YOU 1000 TIMES. MOTHERFUCKER.

[MrHaiqal121]

@anticochon1 True Story Bro Actually Im Doin Ur Mom 

[Supermassively]

@anticochon1 Shut the fuck up.

[anticochon1]

@Supermassively the one who is going to shut the fuck up will be you HIV infected mother

[Supermassively]

@anticochon1 Oh, nice. "UR MOM" bullshit. Could you be any more retarded?

[OmarGudmunds]

When music was at it's best...Great song written and performed by a great artist..R.I.P Del

[shuechung]

I'm walkin' in the rain~~~~~ won won won- wonder~ I run run run runaway~~

[barnaba1964]

it's not the original version....

[rockinbolotie56]

@barnaba1964

You're right. The album cover is also wrong for this alternate version.

[ajptaylor]

Wow, that sounds nice in stereo after all these years listening to it on AM radio.

[samisunc]

I have the distinction of being the 93,799th person to "like' this great song by the incredible Del Shannon. Wooohoo

[Rollin558]

This song should be a lot higher than 466 on the 500 greatest songs of all time. Thanks for the post, Alexander. Sounds great.

[wiffhead]

Thanks! Love this song and was pleased to find it here in stereo. Great sound...great memory. Long live Del Shannon! You rock!

[chism26]

I alwaysed loved this song I relly dig Gene Pitney

[fiddlerpin]

I remember crusin in the 57 chevy in the early 70's right after american graffiti hit the movies with this song blasting out of my Jensen Tri-ax speakers. Those were the days.

[samisunc]

@fiddlerpin yeah buddy. wooohoooo

[vecuccio]

@fiddlerpin And then you woke up with your cock in your hand you loser !

[fiddlerpin]

@vecuccio You need to get a life asswipe

[TheCountAlucard]

Back in the late 70's Del had a short gig at the Jockey Club Tavern in Hamilton. We drank too much tequila that night. I never knew that you tequila with salt and lime until then. He sounded great and I sure was sad to see him go the way he did. My girlfriend at the time, now my wife, got a kiss from him.

[Beatle1407]

This was great to hear. The original is the best. Thanks for this.

[EyerishEyesQQ]

omg! The sound is amazing! Love this song!

[fairfax1960]

One of the best rock-n-roll songs ever. Thanks for the excellent upload (and the stereo version.)

[desertbumpa]

Thank U so much for publishing the original.

Hope it doesn't hurt any commercial rights... this song is a part of life, not just mine I imagine.

So happy to hear it again !!!!

[Hugolinetty]

cant stop listening to this song for real! first time i heard it was 1990 i think march, i was 4 years old. this song helped me through my bad childhood, anytime i was hurt and sad i crawled under my bed with a cassette recorder, playin this song over and over again, without it i think i would have given up on life!! when i was 10 i came back to my mum and couldnt take the cassette recorder with me =( ... now 15 years later i finally found this song again. =) =) =) <3

[greenpilgrim50]

@Hugolinetty giving up on life as a child? that makes me sad but as you've found, music is a great escort through life, especially a hard one. I've had a hard life too; many of us have, but the strong crawl out from under their beds and keep going. I'm glad you've looked up the music that's helped you. Hang onto it.

[sukomsanru]

The sound quality is so good even though it was the song in 60's. Thanks for uploading. It makes me happy.

[hotfish2009]

In the UK, early pressings (on UK London label) of "Runaway" were incorrcetly copupled with Max Crook (aka Maximilian) playing "The Snake" although labels stated "Jody". Pressings were later corrected and "The Snake" was released separately.

[BigG8647]

Greatest organ riff in all rock n' roll!!!!

[calgal1967]

@BigG8647 Look up the Happy Organ. Thats totally great organ music.

[NormanEdwardVail]

Have a sister who turned 12 on October 11th, 1961...hey...try monster mash...great oldie

[Nobjan]

Love this song--excellent audio!

[etebas12]

this has got to be one of the best songs of all time.

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[10995]

While I agree that this recording is a masterpiece, I prefer the Traveling Wilburys version that they did in remembrance of him in 1990, not long after he died.

[nightwind928]

This was a theme song for a short run but very well done series Crime Story with Dennis Farina.

[Weiszcracker]

Classic song

[SpeedTriple59]

Proper waltzer music..

[buddylee1983]

"Tell Tony, Eddie and the Cruisers are here" - Sal

[blacknwhiteink13]

being 20 years too young to hear this....i can only think.....i was born in the wrong generation!

[ROGER459]

(Proverbs 30:20) Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eats, and wipes her mouth, and says; I have done no evil.

[Somespatanwarrior]

@ROGER459 I don't get it.

[CrispeyAgentZ]

@Somespatanwarrior How can you not get it.

[simwrangler]

I've done this song a couple of times at karaoke.

[cheekyoziechick]

I just love this song so much. The instrumental is great.

[Naghelfar1]

The mp3 is deleted! could you re-upload it ?

[bongwaterbug]

best song of all time

[Dimachillz87]

listen to this in 2011!!!!

[Supermassively]

@Dimachillz87 Fucking kill yourself.

[NotComingBack01]

@Dimachillz87 Listening to this in 2012 ;-)

[bfandreasyt]

@NotComingBack01 ..whiht hen was considered sience fiction. Wasn't Ripley supposed to fight Aliens by now? At least Sid Mead flying cars? Hello?

*crickets*

At least there is Youtube.

[cardinal333]

sounds like a musitron,any comments ?was I right??

[jreyes619]

Was watching children of the corn and this song came out on there...

[tiger12220]

Great song! Also: Mariner's revenge song has a hint of it 8D

[jackzupp]

I was 10 yrs. old when this was released. !st "Rock" song I learned the lyrics to. To this day whenever I hear it, just Gotta sing along. Thanks for posting it.

[cachi14]

This is a good song, but I have a question:

Why is this song called: Runaway (Rare Stereo Version)?

Forgive my bad english.

[zerobeat18]

@cachi14 Runaway = name of the song. Stereo = Left + Right channels each with different sound. Rare = hard to find, not common. 

[cachi14]

@zerobeat18 Thanks for replying

[LEOPARDTWO]

This lives forever. 

[STJFANSUB]

tears are falling...

[PoppaJohn82]

Amazing Song

[sofflash]

This song makes me so nostalgic...

[Xxnerd101xX]

Saw American Graffiti at the theater a few months ago and heard this song. I loved the song the moment i heard it and loved the movie. Went to Knotts Berry Farm and heard them playing this song and started dancing to it XD

[AR1264]

Awesome version, thank you for posting this!

[fran9860]

that keyboard solo TEARS me up every time I hear it; CHILLS!

[kennyg03]

"I'll Be Back" is John Lennon's chord variation of this song.

[LDD86]

it's called a CLAVIOLINE people!!!! gosh!!!

[Desoto875]

@LDD86  :)x

[nomiclas]

i'm not sure if i like the stereo version.it changes the way it sounds to the point of almost being a different song altoghether.it sounds great just different.

[GusMcC]

@nomiclas Its a very different version. The musitron solo is different and Dels vocals are not as 'hard' as the original mono version of Runaway. Still good tho....

[sprocket1942]

great stereo sound. Hard to find the oldies that sound this good. I remember this well, and the sound is true and perfect.

[FlyboyLWB]

It just dont get much better than this, brings back the memories

[stevarino1989]

I love how there's a lot of kids from this generation and even younger that appreciate music other than Lady Gaga and Ke$ha and *shudder* Justin Bieber. I'm one of those guys. This song is so epic especially with the keyboard solo at 1:10. I know the old days weren't as great as they seemed but why couldn't I be 22 in 1961? Well I'd be 72 by now. My parents were even too young to remember this when it came out because they were 2 in 1961.

[deZengo]

There is no wondering at all... she ran to safety! She looked deeply at the situation and realized there was no way to win at all - so why play the game? Trust is all there is and without it, there is not much to build on. Great song. Thanks for posting and sharing ... the wonder of WHY?

[20000Armpits]

50 Years Ago, This Year

Del Shannon - Runaway

[R2carde]

...Wow, on this he dosen't sound like a woman like does on my record.... lol

[BlinEd1]

i'm 16, but this is still such a tune!

[Mattamedic]

@BlinEd1 Fun to be 16 but your profile says you're in your 20's...Man, people do anything to get that thumbs up shit...

[mirelurk1]

@Mattamedic no one puts their real age in you fucking moron

[Mattamedic]

@mirelurk1 listen, garbage, unless you're so stupid that you can't see these tools are fishing for the lame thumbs up...forget it. You're clearly too stupid to grasp that...

[esteban790535]

im a teenager and this song is older than i am, and its AMAZING!!

[COTTONHEAT]

Wonderful song i hear this a lot in the UK on the Radio Station Gold

[gmariehughes]

I love this song!!!

[thecountofbasie]

SUPERFINE...rare indeed to hear the stereo version...nearly impossible to catch all the piano and horn work in the mono mix...5*****

[B52sguy]

This song perhaps, devoloped the beginning of the seperation of kids to there parents in the late 60's. I don't really know, was in the Air Force at the time, but it was a call, I tell you a call, for those of us serving, that what we had back home, was an illusion. Time marshes on, and those left behind suffered.

Joseph F

Portland, OR USA

[revpgesq]

@B52sguy i just recently encountered Long Live our Love by the Shangri-las from1966. In retrospect, It sounds like a song from 1945, not 1966 -- for just the reasons you cite. Something selfish and sundering happens at the end of the 60's/ early 70's and the children who go off to war come back in large part to a society and sometimes to families too self-absorbed or agenda-driven to care, comfort, thank, welcome, love, etc.

[B52sguy]

@revpgesq What an excellent summation of the truth! You made this on of the best days for me in a long time. I thank you very much. Would like the Shangi-las song, I'll bet.

There was a major disconnect during the time frame you mentioned. Kind of like "Innocence Lost" I have a hard time explaining to some of the younger adults I know that innocence. Jeez, imagine a world without any teen drama? How boring my teen years would be by todays standards. Trade it? Never.

Joseph

Portland OR

[revpgesq]

@B52sguy I am so pleased that my comment was an encouragement to you. i was just barely old enough to see this going on, but as a kid (whose parents did nothing to filter out the adult world in my life) i had all sorts of time to observe, consider and discuss with my bro & my very young parents, who knew no boundaries in their talk. glimpses of the society you remember well are in the hearts of children... see, e.g., how THEY respond to parental separations. Yours in prayer, pgary

[Informed104]

No jukebox should be without it! I was three when it hit the air waves, and at five years old, I can still hear it playing in the car on my mom's little single speaker am radio - 93 KHJ Los Angeles. Such a classic that we try to honor it in our little rock and roll cover band.

[AtumAsarNeter]

the instrumentation is just won won won wonderful

[skatepunkzero]

American Graffiti!

[geehowdy1]

One of the first I listened to when I was a tweener in the 60's.

A wonderful song

[STANLEYCOURT]

Brilliant! - and then some.

[eemjmm]

GREAT voice --bye Del

[elamite66]

One of the best Rock and Roll records of all time it sounds as good as it did when I first heard it at the age of 12 in 1961

[rogerrrubin]

@elamite66 You are right on the button buddy-boy. I started doing the pony at the school hop (Oakland High 1961).

[elamite66]

@rogerrrubin I'm down with ya for me it was NY even my son who was born in 1970 likes it and he doesn't like many records mad before he was born but this is an exception

[Aphidboy]

@elamite66 You bet.  Exactly right. This song meant a lot to me when I was a teenager.