Del Shannon Runaway
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- Опубликовано: 4 ноя 2007
- 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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Reminds me of my dad. We grew up with him always playing this kind of music & Doo Wop. What pure talent.
I wish I was in my twenties & had a time machine to go back during the 50s or 60s. Look at all those lovely ladies boppin around Dell & those hott go-go girls putting out those awesome moves. WOW!! I would have bopped till I dropped!
Fantastic Classic Post - Clip not to clear - - Thanks.
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 watching those people dance. Love it I say.
Happy 79th birthday to Del. You are the best.
God I loVe this song. I miss her (littleMiss) so, so very much!
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.
Most of these dancers are now great-grandparents. Hope their still rockin!
these dancers great grandchildren are the teens of today
A lovely trip down memory lane ! Memories are the "Wings that allow the Soul to soar" !
I first heard this all-time great song when it came out in 1961; I was in 7th grade. I love it every bit as much now as I did then...though only difference is that I understand and appreciate endlessly the great talent Del and so many other singers of that time had....Jackie Wilson, Ben E King, the list is SOOOO long. Seek out these treasures
A great one! Fun watching the dancing too!
really awesome!!! ♫ lalaaa ....I'm a-walkin' in the rain, tears are fallin' and I feel the pain, wishin' you were here by me, to end this misery.... lalaaaa ♫
Aaahh the sixties. They were truly the good old days. Probably one the best decades ever. Wish I could go back in a time machine.
Yeah, and they were the first generation when the corruption of America started. Do not misunderstand me. I am a few years older than the first of the boomers. Del Shannon was a great singer and I really loved all of his songs. Look at what happened to him: in 1990 he shot himself dead. Now, I am changed and look at everything in a different perspective. We are (I am) responsible where America is today. Drug, sex and rock-and-roll were not exactly the values we should have bestowed the next generation. Many of our grandchildren today are self-gloating, narcissistic, selfish people with questionable values. We did that and I assume my share of responsibility. However, America is doomed, unless she can reinvigorate herself with values of the olden days built on current days' changed but positive ones. That is just me, you may disagree with me and that is OK.
***** I do not disagree with you at all. I am 54 yo & I wish I was in my twenties during the 50s or 60s, just living a wonderful peaceful life when good family values & traditions were around, minus the war & the bad stuff. I missed out on those wonderful decades. You are right It was the care free sex & drugs that was the beginning of the downward spiral that brought upon this uncontrollable mess. I honestly don't know if America can turn around in time since the drugs are so far entrenched in society like an uncurable cancer. I don't know how the rock-and-roll part of it influenced the past generations in a negative way. Maybe you can explain that part to me if you want to. Have a blessed Sunday.
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Thanks for the feedback. It is reassuring that I am not alone thinking this way. The bottom line is that I have mixed feelings now. I always go back an listen to the oldies maybe once a week. It is in my blood and I can not get rid of it even if I wanted to. The culture is part of me.
***** Same here dude. I may have been a young rugrat back then but my appreciation for the culture & the 50s & 60s music has no bounds in time. The oldies are always good unlike the JB crap they belt out these days. Mind you every decade has its good music (hard to find) & its awful music.
8 beautiful ladies dancing around... Lucky guy, Del Shannon...
Dell Shannon is my absolute hands-down favorite Oldies singer! Dad got mad at me all the time for stealing his Dell Shannon casette tape so I could walk or jog while listening to it, but he had a big impact on me.
I'm a big oldies fan; grew up on all that stuff my parents grew up on.
mannnn,ah loveeeeeeee youtube.
Such amazing videos.
love x
Old but gold
Waow ! Radio Luxemburg 208, your station in the stars. I remember. Fantastic radio as were also Caroline (259 m. MW) and Wonderful Radio London (woopie). To never forget I use their trailers to start Windows.
Too wonderful - wish I could re-live my brilliant youth ...
One of the best pop tracks ever.
rock**
Great song and a great performance. I have listen this song for a thousand times and still loving it
+Edi Cavalcante I agree it a great song, but a great performance? Great Lip Syncing maybe!
Top 5 songs ever!
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"
Great Artist
Runaway... one of the best songs of all time...
Forever Del Shannon R.I.P.
You will always be No One Del and I love you,caro
This was my very favourite tune when I was in the twelfth grade. Thanks for the memories.
Watched him perform "Runaway" on Bandstand in April of '61. My mother and I would watch the show in the afternoons while waiting for my father to get home from work. My younger brother is across the room in his playpen bopping along to the music too. Some of the memories are pretty clear and my mother helped fill-in some details over the years. I also remember Del Shannon's "Runaway" being on the radio a _lot_ too. So many memories are 'punched up' because we were out somewhere and then the song was on the radio as mom or dad was driving. Of course they turned it up because they were young then. 😃
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
Overlook the dancing girls here & just listen to Del. He was a great artist. It's DEL SHANNON. Doesnt get any better.
this song reminds me of my dad who passed away a year ago now....but when I listen to this song......I feel like he is just here with me.....and a great song it is...I love it too!!
this song was a little before my time,but a fav of the do-wop era,along with the Diamonds and the Drifters.
Right on! I couldnt dance to save myself but appreciated those that could all the same. Del was awesome.
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!!!!!
Del Shannon is by far one of the MOST UNDERRATED SINGERS THAT EVER LIVED. Could've been one of the reasons why he committed suicide. God bless you Del!
I was 13. Listening to the radio in our living room. When this song started to play mom asked me to turn it off because we had visitors. I could not believe. My favorite song! I turned it off and went running to my bedroom where I had another radio. Too late. I was finishing. I only listened the final notes. And cried my eyes off. I fet the radio on hoping they would play it again. In fact, they did. To my relief. How great when our dramas are so easy to be solved. So good to be 13.
Wow!
I love this song!
I love 60's and 50's! Oldies all in all!
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.
AWESOME!!!
My mom introduced me to this music growing up. Great songs they are too.
This reminds me so much of going to funfairs at the coast in the early / mid 60's. great track
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!!
Awesome!!
Along w/ "Runaround Sue" "Duke of Earl" "Pls Mr. Postman"..these are the greatest songs ever for me personally!! thanks for this priceless posting...
so good
wot a song, 1'm 16 and i used to get this played to me wen i was like 5
great classic
GOLD!
finely i was searching for this song 3 years didnt and didnt know the name of it !
so happy :P
How right you are, GenuineVanillaFace!!!
Great song
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.
Reminds me of my sweet brothers, gone but not forgotten.
New wave music was just as good in the 80's!! I llike both 50's music and 80's New wave
awesome!
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
Just has to be one of the greatest pop songs ever
i, too, was in the 7th grade when i first heard this song. only it was 1973/74 during the 50's nostalgia boom (american graffiti/happy days). it's an otherwordly recording, unbelievable... soars
this woman real beautiful ...
Very great song. I did a project on him in 4th grade and became much acquianted with this song (I'm 18).
My favourite oldie EVER. So epic.
rock n roll
a.c.a.b. from italy
RIP HERO!!
AMAZING !!!!
Soy del 95 y la musica de hoy es basura, siempre he pensado que neci en la época equivocada, ¡joder! Esto es... Sensacional.
del was the best
@Lowdenjim i was not born, great song.
I love these times :)
I love these SONGS!@!!
how cute, with all the girls dancing around him like that!
Del Shannon was most definately a great singer , he will be missed by all of the oldies freaks including me.
im ten years old and i hate to say this but i love him!
szuperrrrr de jó kis zene és milyen lazán énekel (y)
Great ! I love this song.
Great song.
R.I.P
Del Shannon
yeah i see is really great stuff.... :-)
one of my all time Favs!
AWESOME BEAT AND IM ONLY 33
I was born in the year this was a #1 hit, viz. 1961
Esta es una de las mejores del gran Dell Shannon, Runaway.... The Best... Simple Amazing!!!
i freakin love this song!
🔥
Great song.. Gotta love it!
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!!!!
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.
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
LOVE IT!!
wish I lived bcak then... was't even plannerd back then... ;)
totally agree
Tuuuuuuuuuuuuuneeeeeeeeeeee
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.
I love this song. In some jams we'd mangle the lyrics. "As I drive along. I wonder what went wrong. With my brakes the brakes that were so strong. I'm a driving in the rain,.." and so on. You can imagine how awful we were.
holy f**k .... That musitron solo is like the theme song for hell.
That "Musitron" is one cool sound, not quite an ondioline/clavioline but something unique. Love this song!
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
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.
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...
too bad our school doesn't produce musicians like this anymore. It's weird to think I walk the same halls as he did.
Gran canción.
i wa wa wa wa wonderrrrrrrrrr