1. Best Days of My Life 2. Love Letters 3. Till I Found You 4. Raylene
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Del Shannon Appreciation Society Appreciation Shannon Del Official website: www.delshannon.com website: Official Digital Transfers by: Randy Perry Randy by: Transfers Digital Remastering by: Randy Perry Randy by: Remastering Art Direction/Design: Mark Kalmus Mark Direction/Design: Art Snuffy’s, 10/31/77, London, England: Bernard Hales Bernard England: London, 10/31/77, Snuffy’s, Live Performance Photographs taken at at taken Photographs Performance Live Photography: Randee St. Nicholas St. Randee Photography: Executive Producers: Dan Bourgoise & Brian Young Brian & Bourgoise Dan Producers: Executive Album Produced by: Del Shannon Del by: Produced Album - Drums, Background Vocals Background Drums, - CONNOLLY KEVIN - Bass, Background Vocals Background Bass, - HILTON TREVOR - Keyboards, Background Vocals Background Keyboards, - WALKER BARRY - Lead Guitar, Background Vocals Background Guitar, Lead - SMITHAM MICHAEL - Vocals, Rhythm Guitar Rhythm Vocals, - SHANNON DEL Del Shannon is backed by SMACKEE: by backed is Shannon Del Today, I Started Loving You Again You Loving Started I Today, 6. Love, It Don’t Come Easy Come Don’t It Love, 5. Amanda 4. Another Lonely Night Lonely Another 3. Oh, Pretty Woman Pretty Oh, 2. THE DUBLIN SESSIONS • Black Is Black 1. SIDE B SIDE One Track Mind Track One 5. Raylene 4. Till I Found You Found I Till DEL SHANNON 3. Love Letters Love 2. Best Days of My Life My of Days Best 1. SIDE A SIDE S ROCKBEAT RECORD ROCKBEAT el Shannon was a consistent hit maker Smitham. Smitham recalled the tours leading up to the My daughter sat in an arm chair opposite him. He Name” came along for his 1991 album “Rock On!” called him my friend. in the early 1960s. Beginning with a #1 recording of the album: looked up, spoke to her, and the next thing you heard Four covers are featured on this album to compliment So why did this album go unreleased for nearly 40 smash in “Runaway ,” he continued the “We met for our very first rehearsal in October 1976, were some chords being strummed, and moments later Shannon’s seven originals. “Black Is Black” is the Los years? What happened when Del came back to America chart run with songs like “Hats Off To at the Ryton Hotel in my hometown of Coventry in the out came ‘There was fire in her eyes…’ Del put pen to Bravos hit, which Shannon first attempted to record in to try and release it? And how did this affect his career Larry,” “Hey! Little Girl,” “Swiss Maid,” West Midlands. This was for our first tour. We saw Del as paper, and said he would add more lyrics when he got Nashville in 1973 at the same session that yielded his own trajectory going forward, and what did he do instead? “LittleD Town Flirt,” “Handy Man,” “Keep Searchin’,” and a wide shouldered, open-faced American, who put us at home. His wife, Shirley, and Phil Luderman (Del’s road Shannon’s manager, Dan Bourgoise, helps to fill in those “Stranger In Town.” When the British invasion quelled ease within minutes of first having met him. He was an manager) were there. I still have a copy of the demo and blanks. “Del was always excited to record, to write new many of his contemporaries who couldn’t adapt to the easy-going man with an infectious sense of humor and it sounds great!” songs and lay them down in a studio. He and Jeff Lynne ever changing musical landscape, Shannon managed to an easy smile! Backing him on tour and playing on his “Raylene,” another pretty name, was attempted really had something cooking a few years earlier when keep current and survive. He tried reinventing himself album was an amazing ‘apprenticeship’ for any young earlier by Shannon and Jeff Lynne, but reimagined here they got together. They would meet up, record some on several occasions, putting his hit formula aside to musician wanting to for this session, sounding in tune with what the Bee tracks at The Robbs’ studio, but then ELO got so hot try out new sounds, namely working with Snuff Garrett, learn their ‘chops!’ I Gees were putting out at the time. “Till I Found You” and Jeff was having hit after hit and was on tour, that Leon Russell, Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart, and the remember the shows and “Love, It Don’t Come Easy” began in Max Crook’s there just wasn’t enough time to get an album for Del Stones producer Andrew Oldham. He even went so were always a pleasure home studio in California. “I remember Del and myself together. A couple years went by and Del was eager to far to record and release a pop-psyche album under and Del always included getting together shortly after we had finished up his get something out. So he recorded these sessions in his real name in “The Further Adventures of Charles us and gave us a name ‘Live’ album. He was looking for the next ‘Runaway’ Dublin, and then shopped them to various record labels Westover,” which still stands the test of time as a great check on stage. He and rode his motorcycle out to my place in the high in America when he got back. But the labels just weren’t era piece from 1968. was a lot of fun. In the desert, I guess to see if we could rekindle the magic,” interested in new material by 60’s artists. Not just by Del, When Shannon and his fans began to move apart, he spring of 1977, for our Crook explained. “He came with his guitar and he but by others from his era too. ‘What does the album tried his hand at producing others and discovering new second tour, I fondly already had ‘Till I Found You’ written, at least in some mean?’ And ‘What does he have to say?’ He was being acts. Shannon helped to launch the careers of Johnny remember staying sort of rough form. Some of the lines in the song would overlooked. After about six months having finished the Carver in ’66 and a group called Smith in ’69, with their at one of his favorite later change, but we recorded it on my equipment, more album, Del was depressed, had been drinking heavily, cover of “Baby It’s You” going Top 5. He soon repeated places in Yorkshire, or less with Del playing his acoustic and I played some and finally checked himself into a hospital for rehab. It that same success in Brian Hyland with “Gypsy Woman” The Black Horse Inn keyboards behind him. Just a demo, you know? We got was around January 1978 when we got the copyrights the following year, resulting in another Top 5. When in Brighouse. It’s still to talking about ‘Runaway’ and the chord structure of back to his old hits that Del was feeling good again. nostalgia packaged tours became a rave in the early there! Anyways, it was the song, the ‘A Minor’ and the ‘G’, which had also been rendition of Edwin Starr’s “Oh, How Happy.” Shannon’s He was getting sober, he was losing weight and began 70’s, Shannon jumped on board that train along with a pub room with annex type rooms attached. He, like successful for him in ‘Keep Searchin’ and ‘Stranger In close friend, Stephen Monahan, first suggested to him eating healthy, and was exercising. When Del got out his contemporaries the rest of us, enjoyed a drinkie or two, and I can recall Town.’ We laughed about our old producer, Harry Balk, to take on this number, which he did, incorporating it of rehab, he was like a changed man. Right about this to keep some cash many a ‘session’ after the show. Quite a lot of touring and how when he first heard ‘Runaway’ before deciding into his live sets. “Black Is Black,” on this album, is time is when Del hooked up with Tom Petty and began flowing in by singing artists liked to stay there. I recall there was a very long to record it, having told us, ‘You know the trouble with virtually spot-on to his live performances. Shannon was a new creative jaunt in ‘Drop Down and Get Me.’ He the old hits. In card game which included Del and Bobby Vee! Roy this song is that it sounds like there’s two or three songs also a big fan of Roy Orbison, having recorded a few of slimmed down, got a new wardrobe and attitude, and December 1972, Orbison was in the same hotel but he didn’t come down trying to come together here.’ Well, we decided to try his songs in the past to include “Crying” and “Running started writing again. The Dublin material just sort of fell he recorded a live for the ‘after hours’ fun. that theory out, and Del and I came up with ‘Love, It Scared.” Shannon had recorded “Oh, Pretty Woman” into the rear-view mirror.” album of his old “Del was constantly scribbling ideas down and Don’t Come Easy,’ which starts out with the ‘A Minor’ in 1966 while at Liberty Records, but he wasn’t given The Dublin Sessions album was never officially named hits.