In a comment on my Charlie Brown post a few nights ago, Keith mentioned Del Shannon’s Runaway, which naturally stuck in my head … Keith has a way of planting those ear worms! I did not think I had played this before, but it turns out I had … twice!!! But not since 2019, so I figure it’s due for a redux! I think my memory is due for a reboot, but that’s a story for another day.
This song was released in 1961 … sixty-two years ago … I was ten years old. Wow.
A lot of Shannon’s songs were about broken relationships. He once said he wrote the words to this about himself because he was forever running away from relationships. The song came about, according to Shannon, thusly …
“We were on stage and Max [Crook] hit an A minor and a G and I said…
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