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It's funny that when you think of people like Del Shannon, people generally think about the hits he had in the early 1960s - with songs like Runaway, The Swiss Maid, Hat's off to Larry, Little Town Flirt & the other big hit he had in 1965 - Keep Searchin' (Follow the Sun). But after that the hits kind of dried up - even though he was producing some interesting stuff.
The Andrew Loog Oldham sessions are perhaps the most interesting (in 1967). This involved Shannon going over to the UK & doing some acoustic sound. It was in this period a revamped version of Runaway - with some very interesting results (if anyone knows Don McLean's Castle's in the Air - the circumstances are simular, in which a slower reworked version was made - many years after the Tapestry version).
Some other songs Shannon perform from these sessions, which have an interesting sound to them, come from guy called Billy Nicholls (English) - in the form of Cut & Come Again, Friendly With You & Led Along.
An Amazon search reveals this guy has some CDs to his name - as well as some album done in that period, which wasn't released until 1999!
Strange to see though that 2 (I think) of the 3 songs Shannon sings aren't on any of the Nicholls (there's a song on one of them called Come Again - which maybe Cut & Come Again - from the Shannon CD).
At least one person reckons the Nicholls album (that wasn't released on Vinyl until 1999) was the UKs answer to Pet Sounds. It's interesting to note that the Shannon sessions were definitely influenced from this album. Yet Pet Sounds (from the Beach Boys - produced by Brian Wilson), is also underrated in a way - yet drew influence!
It's also interesting to note that the Shannon album to be (Home & Away) from the Oldham sessions wasn't released until the late 1970s & appearning on the Liberty Years CD in 1990s. Unforuntely it seems pretty hard to track - perhaps no longer produced I suspect.
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The Andrew Loog Oldham sessions are perhaps the most interesting (in 1967). This involved Shannon going over to the UK & doing some acoustic sound. It was in this period a revamped version of Runaway - with some very interesting results (if anyone knows Don McLean's Castle's in the Air - the circumstances are simular, in which a slower reworked version was made - many years after the Tapestry version).
Some other songs Shannon perform from these sessions, which have an interesting sound to them, come from guy called Billy Nicholls (English) - in the form of Cut & Come Again, Friendly With You & Led Along.
An Amazon search reveals this guy has some CDs to his name - as well as some album done in that period, which wasn't released until 1999!
Strange to see though that 2 (I think) of the 3 songs Shannon sings aren't on any of the Nicholls (there's a song on one of them called Come Again - which maybe Cut & Come Again - from the Shannon CD).
At least one person reckons the Nicholls album (that wasn't released on Vinyl until 1999) was the UKs answer to Pet Sounds. It's interesting to note that the Shannon sessions were definitely influenced from this album. Yet Pet Sounds (from the Beach Boys - produced by Brian Wilson), is also underrated in a way - yet drew influence!
It's also interesting to note that the Shannon album to be (Home & Away) from the Oldham sessions wasn't released until the late 1970s & appearning on the Liberty Years CD in 1990s. Unforuntely it seems pretty hard to track - perhaps no longer produced I suspect.
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