Del Shannon Runaway

Del Shannon singing "Runaway" which was a #1 hit in 1961. This became Del's first big smash and catapulted him to superstar status in over 21 countries. Max Crook was his organ player, playing a "musitron" which was built from parts from a clavioline, Viking 85 reel to reel machine, Fisher K-10 Reverb Spacexpander, a Gibson guitar amp, and several other parts and pieces. Maximilian's musitron was the perfect compliment to Del's soaring vocals and seering falsetto.

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• Coopersville
• Detroit
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[Lowdenjim]

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"

[samanthastarr]

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

[MrPambukyan]

Old but gold



[dieselheart001]

@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.

[stevieod]

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]

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.

[mugatomick]

All-time great!

Brunni

(Street Corner Memories Radio Show)

[golfdude2007]

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

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

[FlametopFred]

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)

[terryjohn]

@Lowdenjim i was not born, great song.

[SUPERBUGG842]

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.