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About Del Shannon
- Del Shannon
- Coopersville, Michigan, United States
- Del Shannon was born Charles Weedon Westover in Grand Rapids, MI December 30, 1934. Died Santa Clarita, CA February 8, 1990. Best known for 1961 #1 hit record "Runaway", followed by other top hits to include "Hats Off To Larry", "So Long Baby", "Hey! Little Girl", "Swiss Maid", "Little Town Flirt", "Two Kind of Teardrops", "Handy Man", "Do You Wanna Dance", "Keep Searchin' (We'll Follow The Sun)", "Stranger In Town", "Sea Of Love", and "In My Arms Again". Shannon also penned the Top 10 hit "I Go To Pieces" for Peter & Gordon, and produced two Top 10 Hits "Baby, It's You" for Smith, and "Gypsy Woman" for Brian Hyland.
17 comments:
Nice to see a board back. I miss the old one.
Rock On!
~~Spacebeagle~~
Ahoy Spacebeagle !
If you read this, Mary (in England, and our main cheerleader in the now-defunct Forum)would like to get in touch with you.
If you don't have her e-address, please shoot me a note at either (a) James.Bartlett@opm.gov or (b) Delfan1961@yahoo.com.sg (and you DO need that ending ".sg").
Jim Bartlett (aka "Delfan1961")
Wonderful seeing all you good people. Merry Christmas!
Hey, BTW, have any of you heard of/about, or seen:
Brian Matthew, host of Saturday Club? Apparently Del appeared on the broadcast of the show's 5th Birthday in 1963.
Brian Matthew --
http://www.radiorewind.co.uk/radio2/brian_matthew_page.htm
Born in Coventry on September 17th 1928, Brian Matthew was the son of musical parents. His mother was a professional singer and his father a conductor of the Coventry Silver Band.
With falling popularity of skiffle music, the show was renamed Saturday Club from 4th October 1958 and extended to two hours. Live acts were heard featuring up-and-coming talent. Saturday Club soon became a prestigious radio show. The theme tune was Humphrey Lyttleton's ‘Saturday Jump’. Acts included Adam Faith, Clinton Ford, Jim Dale, Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran, Craig Douglas, Bert Weedon , Acker Bilk. Lonnie Donegan, the Everly Brothers, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bo Diddley, Chris Montez, Tommy Roe, the Beatles, Frank Ifield, and Kathy Kirby. Later editions included the Wayne Fontana, the Searchers, Jimi Hendrix, Manfred Mann and the Who. Brian introduced the acts and chatted with them each Saturday until the 23rd September 1967, three months before the show was scrapped.
Hi Jim & Spacebeagle,
As you can see I've found you!
Yippeeeeeeeeeee!
Jim is right spacebeagle I'd love to hear from you again.
ROCK ON!
MARY
...happy to be part of the Del Shannon Fans Blog
Again let me thank you, Brian, for your years of excellent results and ongoing efforts to preserve the music and memory of Del Shannon.
How do I start a new topic here, or can I?
I'd like to see a topic on the 20th anniversary of the death of Del Shannon, which is as of this writing about 14 months away.
This month was the 20th anniversary of the death of Roy Orbison, which was noted with a really nice 4 CD set containing some amazing and old recordings of Roy that have only come to light in the last few years. There was also the release of the complete final concert Roy ever gave! Plus lots of newspaper and website articles.
In just over a month we will note the 50th anniversary of the death of Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper, and Richie Valens. Already there are CDs, books, and tribute concerts ready to happen. Expect repeats of documentaries and lots of magazine, newspaper, and website articles.
The 30th anniversary of the death of Bobby Fuller passed two years ago with nothing more than two LPs of vintage recordings, released months after the anniversary. Nice, indeed, but I was diappointed at how little Bobby's death was remembered.
I hope Del's anniversary will be noted with anything like Roy's was this year.
REMEMBERING YOU ON YOUR BIRTHDAY
DEL, THANK YOU FOR ALL THE JOY THAT YOUR WONDERFUL MUSIC BROUGHT
INTO MY LIFE.
ROCK ON !
MARY X
hello all
Hi All
Have finally managed to get on to leave a comment, miss the old forum can we have it back please Brian !!!!
Dont think this will work as well as the old one but better than nothing.
Anyway guess we will all be thinking of Del and playing his wonderful music today.
Happy New Year to one and all.
Mike
Spacebeagle,
On your website dedicated to Del Shannon, you cite a 1996 interview with Paul McCartney (see below).
Where was this published?
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bb
In an interview in 1996, Paul McCartney said, "We loved American rockers. I remember hearing Del Shannon's 'Runaway' and thinking how great and different that song was from the others of the time. John and I wrote 'From Me To You' and we took the lovely A-Minor chord we heard in 'Runaway' and inserted it in 'From Me To You.' (Sings) '...I've got arms that long to hold you, and keep you satisfied....' That was a lovely piece in the song. And I still like it today. It was just funny when Del recorded the song, because part of the influence came from him ya know."
Fancy that! A post. Ah well... this blog/guest book is very difficult to navigate. Had troubles signing in just now.
Briggs asked,
"Spacebeagle,
On your website dedicated to Del Shannon, you cite a 1996 interview with Paul McCartney (see below).
Where was this published?"
I got it in an email from Brian Young years back when he was sending out ATMPO updates via email. I discovered it sitting somewhere in my emails and thought the story was too good to go unnoticed.
You'll have to email Brian where it's origination is. His email address is elsewhere on DelShannon.com
Have a great day, ok? And Rock On!
Thanks, Spacebeagle!
A real task to Nav. this new forum... Thanks for slogging through it to ans. you question.
I'll see what Brian has to say.
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bb
I once met Del in Clifton near Brighouse, at the black horse hotel,around 1980's.
He was doing a charity night raising money. I went in the bar unaware that Del was there, and came across this friendly man there, i asked if he was an american and was he on holliday here?.
He replied that he 'was seeing friends here and they had asked him to help out with the local charity'
which he did free!.
I then found out it was Del....what a lovely man, i will never forget his manners and charm. John from Halifax,uk
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