Jul 15, 2023
Max Crook/Del Shannon, Runaway, 1961
https://youtu.be/FtooBkkHMTQ
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Max Crook/Del Shannon, Runaway, 1961
https://youtu.be/FtooBkkHMTQ
Del: [opens and screams into a jar then closes it]
Max: Del, are you alright?
Del: I'm fine.
Max: You sure?
Del: Mhm.
To be honest, the early rock music does need something extra to drag us in. Maybe that's why we seem so responsive, for instance, to the tune in the link by Del Shannon, since the composition continues to sound out of this world. While I could agree with a cheeky assertion this could be seen as an early attempt at a synthpop song, one must observe the hit still fit within the scene of the early 60's, but the added soundscapes do give the piece a certain eeriness, which many developed later on. Del Shannon also did that, though I think he continues to be in the same league as Procol Harum and The Moody Blues, i.e. he kept doing great work, yet his greatest hit tended to overshadow the fine discs he did after that.
Del Shannon – “Runaway” Song written by Max Crook and Shannon
Happy Halloween!
♫ Runaway ♫
Hop into your time machines, for tonight we are traveling back … to 1961! I was only ten, but I remember this song well.
Del Shannon once said he wrote the words to this about himself because he was forever running away from relationships. Shannon and his keyboard player, Max Crook, came up with this while they were playing a club in their hometown of Battle Creek, Michigan. Crook played a…
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