Wednesday, December 9, 2009

2004 Del Shannon Home and Away: The Complete Recordings 1960-1970

2004 Home and Away: The Complete Recordings 1960-1970
Del Shannon
Louie Shelton - Guitar

Of all the early rock & rollers, Del Shannon is the hardest to classify. He came on the scene a little late -- his first hits, "Hats off to Larry" and "Runaway," arrived in 1961, five years after rock & roll came crashing in, a long enough period of time where his music felt much, much different than the three-chord ravers of the first wave of rock & roll. He arrived during the peak of teen idol pop and was handsome enough to ride that wave, but he was older than Fabian and Ricky Nelson, scoring his first hits in his mid-twenties.

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