Del Shannon - Oh Where Oh Where Can My Baby Be
| Del Shannon | |
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| Birth proper noun | Charles Weedon Westover |
| As well known equally | Del Shannon |
| Born | (1934-12-30)December 30, 1934 Coopersville, Michigan, U.S. |
| Died | February 8, 1990(1990-02-08) (aged 55) Santa Clarita, California, U.Due south. |
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| Instruments | Vocals, guitar |
| Years active | 1958–1989 |
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| Website | www |
Charles Weedon Westover (December 30, 1934 – February viii, 1990), meliorate known by his stage proper noun Del Shannon, was an American rock and roll country musician, vocalist and songwriter, best known for his 1961 number 1 Billboard hit "Runaway".
Biography [edit]
Shannon was born Charles Weedon Westover on December 30, 1934, in Thousand Rapids, Michigan, to Bert and Leone Mosher Westover, and grew up in nearby Coopersville.[ane] He learned to play the ukulele and guitar and listened to state-and-western music by artists such as Hank Williams, Hank Snow, and Lefty Frizzell. He was drafted into the Army in 1954 and, while in Germany, played guitar in a band called The Cool Flames. When his service ended, he returned to Boxing Creek, Michigan, and worked equally a carpet salesman and as a truck driver for a article of furniture mill. He found part-time work as a rhythm guitarist in singer Doug DeMott's grouping, The Moonlight Ramblers, working at the Hi-Lo Club.[ii]
When DeMott was fired in 1958 for drunkenness, Westover took over equally leader and singer, giving himself the name Charlie Johnson and renaming the band the Big Little Show Band.[3] In early 1959 he added the keyboardist Max Crook, who played an instrument he chosen a Musitron (an early on synthesizer of Crook's own invention, though modeled on the commercially released Clavioline[4]). Crook had made recordings, and he persuaded Ann Arbor disc jockey Ollie McLaughlin to heed to the ring. McLaughlin took the grouping'southward demos to Harry Cramp and Irving Micahnik of Talent Artists in Detroit. In July 1960, Westover and Cheat signed to get recording artists and composers for Bigtop Records. Cramp suggested Westover use a new name, and they came upward with "Del Shannon", combining Marking Shannon—a wrestling pseudonym used by a regular at the Hi-Lo Club—with Del, derived from the Cadillac Coupe de Ville, his favorite automobile.[three]
Success [edit]
He flew to New York Urban center, but his start sessions were non successful. McLaughlin then persuaded Shannon and Crook to rewrite and re-tape ane of their earlier songs, originally called "Picayune Runaway", using the Musitron equally lead instrument. On Jan 21, 1961, they recorded "Runaway", which was released equally a single in Feb 1961, reaching number one on the Billboard chart in Apr. Shannon followed with "Hats Off to Larry", which peaked at number 5 on the Billboard chart and number 2 on the Cashbox nautical chart in 1961, and the less pop "So Long, Baby", another vocal of breakup bitterness. "Runaway" and "Hats Off to Larry" were recorded in a day.[5] "Fiddling Town Flirt", in 1962 (with Bob Babbitt), reached number 12 in 1963, as did the album of the same championship. After these hits, Shannon was unable to proceed his momentum in the U.S. but had connected success in the Britain, where he had ever been more than popular. In 1963, he became the outset American to tape a comprehend version of a song by the Beatles: his version of "From Me to Yous" charted in the U.S. before the Beatles' version.
Berlee Records and Amy Records [edit]
By August 1963, Shannon's human relationship with his managers and Bigtop had soured, so he formed his own label, Berlee Records, named after his parents,[vi] distributed by Diamond Records. Two singles were issued: the apparently Four Seasons-inspired "Sue'southward Gotta Be Mine" was a moderate striking, reaching number 71 in the U.Southward. and number 21 in the UK (where Shannon'southward records continued on the London Records characterization). The second single, "That's the Style Love Is", did not chart, and Shannon patched things upwardly with his managers presently afterwards. In early 1964, he was placed on Amy Records' (Stateside label in the UK), and the Berlee label disappeared.[ commendation needed ]
He returned to the charts immediately with "Handy Man" (a 1960 striking by Jimmy Jones), "Do You Wanna Dance?" (a 1958 hitting past Bobby Freeman), and two originals, "Keep Searchin'" (number 3 in the UK; number 9 in the U.S.), and "Stranger in Boondocks" (number forty in the U.k.). In belatedly 1964, Shannon produced a demo recording session for a young fellow Michigander named Bob Seger, who would go on to distinction much later. Shannon gave acetates of the session to Dick Clark (he had performed in 1 of Clark'due south tours, in 1965) and, by 1966, Seger was recording for Philadelphia's famed Cameo Records, resulting in some regional hits, which eventually led to a deal with a major label, Capitol Records. Also in late 1964, Shannon paid tribute to ane of his own musical idols with Del Shannon Sings Hank Williams (Amy Records 8004). The album was recorded in hard-core country honky-tonk way, and no singles were released. Shannon opened for Ike and Tina Turner at Dave Hull'south Hullabaloo club in Los Angeles, California, on December 22, 1965.[seven]
Freedom Records, United Artists Records and Island Records [edit]
Shannon signed with Liberty in 1966 and revived Toni Fisher'due south "The Big Hurt" and the Rolling Stones' "Nether My Thumb". Peter and Gordon released his song "I Become to Pieces" in 1965.[3] Shannon too discovered the state vocalizer Johnny Carver, who was and so working in the Los Angeles expanse. He got Carver a contract with Liberty Records' subsidiary Imperial Records, writing, producing and arranging both sides of Carver'south debut single, "One Way or the Other"/"Retrieve Nigh Her All the Time". Carver went on to take near 20 hits on the country nautical chart during the late 1960s and 1970s. The liner notes to his debut album for Imperial admit Shannon's office in bringing him to the label.
In the late 1960s, not having charted for several years, Shannon turned to production. In 1969, he discovered the band Smith and bundled their hit "Babe, It'southward You", which had been a striking for the Shirelles in 1962. In 1970, he produced Brian Hyland's million-seller "Gypsy Woman", a cover version of the hit by Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions.
During Shannon's tenure at Liberty Records, success on a national calibration eluded him, but he did have several regional U.Southward. nautical chart hits with "The Big Hurt", "Under My Thumb", "She", "Led Along" and "Runaway" (1967 version). That version (recorded in England and produced past Rolling Stones producer Andrew Loog Oldham) likewise did well on the Canadian and Australian pop charts. In early 1967 Shannon recorded the album Home and Away in England, with Oldham at the helm. Intended by Oldham as the British answer to Pet Sounds, Home and Away was shelved by Freedom Records, although a handful of singles were issued. It was not until 1978 that all of the tracks were eventually issued (with three unrelated tracks) on a British album, And the Music Plays On. In 1991, all of the tracks were released in the Us as office of the CD Del Shannon; The Liberty Years. In 2006, 39 years after it was recorded, Home and Away was finally released as a stand-alone drove by EMI Records in the Uk. This CD collected the 11 original tracks in stereo and five singles (released in the U.S., the United kingdom and the Philippines) in their original monaural mixes.
In September 1967, Shannon began laying down the tracks for The Farther Adventures of Charles Westover, which was highly regarded by fans and critics alike despite disappointing sales. The album yielded two 1968 singles, "Thinkin' Information technology Over" and "Gemini" (recently the discipline of a Pilooski remix). In Oct 1968, Liberty Records released their 10th (in the United States) and final Shannon single, a cover of Dee Clark's 1961 hit "Raindrops". This brought to a shut a commercially disappointing menstruation in Shannon'south career. In 1972, he signed with United Artists and recorded Live in England, released in June 1973. Reviewer Chris Martin critiqued the album favourably, saying that Shannon never improvised, was always true to the original sounds of his music and that just Lou Christie rivaled his falsetto.[8] In April 1975, he signed with Island Records.[9]
After he and his manager jointly sought back royalties for Shannon, Bug Music was founded in 1975 to administer his songs.[10] Past 2011, when Bug was acquired by BMG Rights Management, its catalogue had grown to include 250,000 compositions.[11]
A 1976 article on Shannon'south concert at the Roxy Theatre described the singer as "personal, pure and simple rock 'n' roll, dated only gratifyingly undiluted." Shannon sang some of his new rock songs along with classics similar "Endless Sleep" and "The Big Injure". The Los Angeles Times wrote, "Shannon's haunting vignettes of heartbreak and restlessness contain something of a cosmic undercurrent which has the protagonist tragically doomed to a bleak, shadowy struggle."[12]
After career [edit]
Shannon'south career slowed down greatly in the 1970s, owing in part to his alcoholism.[13] The Welsh rock singer Dave Edmunds produced the single "And the Music Plays On" in 1974.[3] In 1978 Shannon stopped drinking and began work on "Sea of Honey", released in 1982 on his album Drop Down and Get Me, produced by Tom Footling. The album took two years to tape and featured Petty'southward band, the Heartbreakers, bankroll Shannon. All the same, RSO Records, to which Shannon was signed, folded. Farther piece of work on the LP was done for Network Records (distributed by Elektra Records). Seven songs are Shannon originals with covers of songs recorded by the Everly Brothers, the Rolling Stones, and Frankie Ford, along with "Sea of Love" by Phil Phillips. It was Shannon'due south commencement album in viii years.[5]
In February 1982, Shannon appeared at the Lesser Line. He performed pop-rock tunes and old hits. Stephen Holden, a reviewer for The New York Times, described an "easygoing popular-country" manner. On "Delinquent" and "Keep Searchin'", Shannon and his band rediscovered the audio "in which his keen falsetto played off against airy organ obbligatos." In the 1980s, Shannon performed "competent simply mundane country-stone".[xiv] In 1986 he had a top-x hit equally a songwriter when the pop-country singer Juice Newton released her cover of Shannon'southward "Cheap Dearest" equally a single, which reached number 9 on the Billboard Hot Country nautical chart.
In 1986, Luis Cardenas, the drummer for the band Renegade, made his version of Shannon's striking "Runaway". The video for the song featured stop-blitheness dinosaurs, in which Shannon fabricated a cameo appearance as a police officer.
Shannon had a resurgence of popularity afterwards re-recording "Delinquent" with new lyrics as the theme for the NBC-TV program Crime Story. In 1988, Shannon sang "The World We Know" with the Smithereens on their anthology Green Thoughts. Two years after, he recorded with Jeff Lynne of the Electric Light Orchestra, and there were rumors he would bring together the Traveling Wilburys afterward the death of Roy Orbison.[13] Previously, in 1975, Shannon had recorded tracks with Lynne, along with "In My Arms Again", a state song he wrote and recorded for Warner Bros. Records, which had signed Shannon in 1984.[3]
Death and legacy [edit]
Del Shannon Memorial in Coopersville, Michigan
In the years leading up to his death, Shannon suffered from low. On Feb 8, 1990, he died by suicide, shooting himself with a .22 caliber burglarize at his domicile in Santa Clarita, California.[15] Shannon was cremated, and his ashes were scattered.
Following his decease, the Traveling Wilburys honored him by recording a version of "Runaway". Jeff Lynne too co-produced Shannon's posthumous album, Rock On, released by Silvertone Records in 1991.[16]
Shannon was inducted into the Stone and Coil Hall of Fame in 1999.[17] [eighteen]
A Del Shannon Memorial Scholarship Fund was set post-obit Shannon's death.[19] Coopersville, Michigan also holds an annual Del Shannon Car Evidence.[xx] [21] [22]
Film and television [edit]
Filmography [edit]
- It's Trad, Dad! (likewise entitled Band a Ding Rhythm) (1962)
- Daytona Beach Weekend (1965)
- Top Ten (1967)
- The All-time of Del Shannon, Rock 'n' Ringlet'south Greatest Hits in Concert, Live from the Rock & Coil Beloved Palace, Kissimmee, Florida, 1988, a boob tube program hosted by Wolfman Jack
Television set [edit]
- American Bandstand (1961)
- Milt Grant Testify (DC) (1961)
- The Buddy Deane Evidence (1962)
- Shindig! (1965)
- Hulaballoo (1965)
- The Lloyd Thaxton Prove (1965)
- Shivaree (1965)
- The Merv Griffin Evidence (Monday, August 16, 1965)
- Hollywood A Get-Go (1965)
- Where the Action Is (1966)
- Sha Na Na (1978)
- Late Dark with David Letterman (1986)
- The Swingin Kind ABC Television receiver with Lee Alan
- "Allow's Rock Tonight" PBS Host Fabian (1989)
Discography [edit]
- Runaway with Del Shannon (June 1961)
- Hats Off To Del Shannon (December 1962) – not issued in US, UK, and Australia merely
- Little Town Flirt (June 1961) #12. Billboard Anthology Chart.
- Handy Man (Oct 1964)
- Del Shannon Sings Hank Williams (February 1965)
- 1,661 Seconds with Del Shannon (April 1965)
- This Is My Bag (July 1966)
- Total Commitment (October 1966)
- Golden Hits - The Best Of Del Shannon (1967)
- The Farther Adventures of Charles Westover (March 1968)
- Live in England (June 1973)
- ...And the Music Plays On (October 1974)
- Drop Down and Get Me (Oct 1981)
- Delinquent Hits! (1986)
- Greatest Hits (from the original primary Tapes) (1990)
- Stone On! (October 1991)
- Dwelling house and Away (recorded in 1967, released in 2006)
- The Dublin Sessions (recorded in 1977, released in July 2017)
Singles [edit]
| Year | Song Titles (A-side, B-side) Both sides from same album except where indicated | Chart positions | Album | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United states of america | UK [23] | AUS [24] | NZ [25] | |||
| 1961 | "Runaway" b/w "Jody" | 1 | ane | ane | 1 | Delinquent |
| "Hats Off to Larry" b/westward "Don't Lodge the Lily, Lily" (non-LP track) | 5 | six | 2 | 2 | Little Boondocks Flirt | |
| "So Long, Babe" b/w "The Answer to Everything" | 28 | ten | sixteen | 8 | Non-LP tracks | |
| "Hey! Little Girl" b/w "I Don't Intendance Anymore" (non-LP rails) | 38 | two | 12 | — | Little Town Flirt | |
| 1962 | "I Won't Be There" | 113 | — | — | — | Not-LP tracks |
| "Ginny in the Mirror" | 117 | — | 57 | — | ||
| "Weep Myself to Sleep" b/w "I'm Gonna Move On" | 99 | 29 | — | — | ||
| "Y'all Never Talked Nearly Me" | — | — | 96 | — | ||
| "The Swiss Maid" | 64 | 2 | 1 | 4 | ||
| "Little Town Flirt" b/west "The Wamboo" (non-LP track) | 12 | 4 | 1 | 7 | Little Town Flirt | |
| 1963 | "Ii Kinds of Teardrops" b/w "Kelly" | 50 | five | 17 | — | |
| "From Me to Y'all" / | 77 | — | 21 | — | Non-LP tracks | |
| "Two Silhouettes" | — | 23 | 21 | — | ||
| "Sue's Gotta Be Mine" b/westward "Now She's Gone" | 71 | 21 | 31 | — | ||
| 1964 | "That'southward the Fashion Honey Is" b/w "Time of the Day" | 133 | — | — | — | |
| "Mary Jane" b/west "Stains on My Letter" (non-LP track) | — | 35 | 99 | — | Handy Man | |
| "Handy Man" b/w "Give Her Lots of Lovin'" | 22 | 36 | 17 | — | ||
| "Practice You Wanna Trip the light fantastic toe?" b/w "This Is All I Accept to Give" (not-LP rail) | 43 | — | 27 | — | 1,661 Seconds with Del Shannon | |
| "Keep Searchin' (We'll Follow the Lord's day)" b/west "Broken Promises" | 9 | 3 | nine | — | ||
| 1965 | "Stranger in Boondocks" b/w "Over You" | xxx | 40 | 83 | — | |
| "Break Up" b/w "Why Don't Your Tell Him" (from 1,661 Seconds with Del Shannon) | 95 | — | 99 | — | Non-LP tracks | |
| "Move Information technology on Over" b/w "She Yet Remembers Tony" | 129 | — | — | — | ||
| 1966 | "I Can't Believe My Ears" b/w "I Wish I Wasn't Me Tonight" | — | — | — | — | |
| "The Big Hurt" b/w "I Got It Bad" | 94 | — | 44 | — | This Is My Purse | |
| "For a Niggling While" b/due west "Hey! Little Star" | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Show Me" b/w "Never Though I Could" (from This Is My Pocketbook) | — | — | — | — | Total Commitment | |
| "Under My Thumb" b/due west "She Was Mine" | 128 | — | 75 | — | ||
| 1967 | "She" b/westward "What Makes You lot Run" (from Full Commitment) | 131 | — | — | — | Not-LP tracks |
| "Led Forth" b/w "I Can't Exist Truthful" (from Total Commitment) | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Delinquent '67" b/w "He Cheated" | 112 | — | xiv | — | ||
| 1968 | "Thinkin' Information technology Over" b/w "Runnin' on Back" | — | — | — | — | The Further Adventures of Charles Westover |
| "Gemini" b/westward "Magical Music Box" | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Raindrops" b/w "Yous Don't Love Me" | — | — | — | — | Not-LP tracks | |
| 1969 | "Comin' Dorsum to Me" b/westward "Sweetness Mary Lou" | 127 | — | — | — | |
| 1970 | "Sister Isabelle" b/w "Colorado Rain" | — | — | — | — | |
| 1975 | "Tell Her No" b/westward "Restless" | — | — | xc | 90 | |
| "Weep Baby Weep" b/w "In My Artillery Again" | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1981 | "Sea of Love" b/w "Midnight Railroad train" | 33 | — | — | — | Driblet Down and Get Me |
| 1982 | "To Love Someone" b/westward "Liar" | — | — | — | — | |
| 1985 | "In My Artillery Again"A b/due west "You Can't Forgive Me" | — | — | — | — | Not-LP tracks |
| "Stranger on the Run" b/w "What You Gonna Practise with That Beautiful Body of Yours" | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1989 | "Walk Away" b/w "Allow'southward Dance" | — | — | 99 | — | Rock On! |
- APeaked at number 56 on Hot Country Songs
References [edit]
- ^ "Del Shannon | American musician". Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved June 21, 2020.
- ^ "The Hello-Lo Club". Delshannon.com. September 29, 1990. Archived from the original on May 16, 2008. Retrieved August 18, 2015.
- ^ a b c d e "Total Length Biography". Delshannon.Com. Retrieved Baronial 18, 2015.
- ^ Reid, Gordon (March 2007). "The Story of the Clavioline". Sound on Sound . Retrieved January 22, 2018.
- ^ a b "Shannon's Dorsum—It's On the Tape", Los Angeles Times, December twenty, 1981. p. M92.
- ^ Young, Brian (2004). The Complete Recordings 1960–70. Del Shannon, "Domicile and Away" (book accompanying the eight-CD box ready). Acquit Family Records. ISBN3-89916-078-9.
- ^ "Del Shannon, Guests, Slated at Hullabaloo". Los Angeles Times, December 22, 1965. p. E6.
- ^ "Del Shannon'south River Even so Flows". Los Angeles Times, December 23, 1973, p. H-51.
- ^ "Pop News". Los Angeles Times, April 6, 1975. p. Grand-59.
- ^ "Fred Bourgoise of Bug Music". Songwriteruniverse.com. Archived from the original on March 20, 2012. Retrieved March 25, 2012.
- ^ "BMG acquires publisher Bug Music". September 12, 2011.
- ^ Cromelin, Richard. "At The Roxy—Undiluted Aura of Del Shannon". Los Angeles Times, January 21, 1976. p. E11.
- ^ a b "Full Length Biography". Delshannon.Com. Retrieved August 18, 2015.
- ^ "Pop:Del Shannon, 60'southward Teen-Age Star". The New York Times, February 22, 1982 p C16.
- ^ Colin Larkin, ed. (1997). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music (Concise ed.). Virgin Books. p. 1075. ISBN1-85227-745-9.
- ^ "Jeff Lynne Produces Terminal Album past Del Shannon". Jeff Lynne website. Archived from the original on April iii, 2013. Retrieved April 16, 2013.
- ^ "Del Shannon: Inducted in 1999". The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Inc. Retrieved June 17, 2012.
- ^ Bak, Richard (July 2011). "Del Shannon'southward Runaway Success Led to his Downfall". Hour Detroit . Retrieved August 17, 2011.
- ^ Cammel, Ron (November 26, 2009). "Coopersville Historical Museum, Del Shannon Memorial Scholarship Fund get $5,000 donations". Mlive.com . Retrieved June twenty, 2019.
- ^ "Coopersville'due south annual Del Shannon festival and car show, Kent County Youth Fair kick off Monday". Mlive.com. August 8, 2010. Retrieved June xx, 2019.
- ^ "Coopersville & Marne Railway – Del Shannon Memorial Car Evidence Shuttle Service". Coopersvilleandmarne.org . Retrieved June 20, 2019.
- ^ "Del Shannon Days & Car Prove". Grandhaven.com . Retrieved June xx, 2019.
- ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Striking Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness Globe Records. p. 494. ISBN1-904994-ten-5.
- ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 270. ISBN0-646-11917-6.
- ^ "flavour of new zealand – search lever". Flavourofnz.co.nz.
Literature [edit]
- Bak, Richard (July 2011). "Del Shannon's Delinquent Success Led to his Downfall". 60 minutes Detroit. Retrieved August 17, 2011.
- DeWitt, Howard A. (2001). Stranger in Town: The Musical Life of Del Shannon. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publ. ISBN978-0-7872-8854-9.
External links [edit]
- Official website
- Del Shannon at IMDb
- Del Shannon at AllMusic
- Del Shannon at Discogs
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