Nobody would deny that the profession of Del Shannon was at its zenith within the early Sixties, when he recorded a number of the finest American pop music of your entire decade. A lot of his later work didn’t discover the viewers it deserved, however in later life, he made a warmly-received comeback with the assistance of an amazing admirer of his early work, none aside from Tom Petty.
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The album that Petty produced for Shannon, the nice, spirited Drop Down And Get Me, entered the Billboard 200 chart on December 12, 1981. It was solely Del’s second album chart entry in his whole profession, and first since Little City Flirt reached No.12 all of 18 years earlier, in 1963.
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The set solely reached No.123, but it surely offered Shannon with a brand new hit, as he lined Phil Philips’ 1959 rock’n’roll gem “Sea Of Love.” The unique was an R&B No.1 and went to No.2 on the pop aspect within the US. That remake additionally entered the charts on December 12, and rose to No.33, Shannon’s first singles chart entry within the States since “The Big Hurt” in 1966 and his greatest hit since “Keep Searchin’ (We’ll Follow The Sun)” early in 1965.
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Tom Petty was an avowed Shannon fan, to the purpose of quoting one among Del’s greatest hits in one among his personal, from the good Full Moon Fever album. “Runnin’ Down A Dream,” written by Petty, Jeff Lynne, and the Heartbreakers’ Mike Campbell, included the road “Me and Del were singing ‘Little Runaway.’” “He was very pleased,” Tom later advised Paul Zollo within the ebook Conversations With Tom Petty. “I got a big smile from him on that. And ‘Little Runaway’ fit the whole concept…Mike wrote that one descending riff, which is the engine of the song.”
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