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Del Shannon (Charles Westover) era un rocker in falsetto del Michigan
che divenne celebre
per Runaway (1961), una canzone triste e pessimista nella quale l'assolo
umorisitico al "musitron" dell'organista Max Crook
imitava ante-litteram il suono del sintetizzatore
(Crook aveva costruito di persona il suo "musitron")
mentre un ritmo galoppante corredava la narrativa in maniera altrettanto
insolita e una chitarra petulante resuscitava il fantasma di Chuck Berry.
Shannon aveva lasciato credere di essere giovanissimo e venne salutato come
un "enfant prodige".
Runaway (Big Top, 1961) contiene anche
Hats Off To Larry e Hey Little Girl.
Little Town Flirt (1962) fu l'hit tratto dall'album omonimo,
Little Town Flirt (Big Top, 1963).
Shannon era uno dei primi rocker bianchi a scrivere il proprio materiale.
In realta` era un emulo di Roy Orbison che in seguito` si autocommisero` in Cry Myself To Sleep, Crying, She Cried, etc. Little Miss Maid fu forse il suo melodramma piu` intenso. Keep Searchin' (1964) e Stranger In Town (1965), il suo incubo piu` massiccio, furono i suoi ultimi brani degni di nota, ma di scarso appeal commerciale. The Definitive Collection (Recall, 1999) e` un'ottima antologia. Shannon si suicido` nel febbraio 1990. |
(Translated by Ornella C. Grannis) Del Shannon (Charles Westover) was a falsetto rocker from Michigan. He gained notoriety with Runaway (1961), a sad and pessimistic song featuring an unusually humorous solo at the "musitron" (a sort of prototype of the synthesizer played by the organist Max Crook, who had personally built it), a galloping rhythm that just as unusually follows the lyric, and a petulant guitar that awakens the ghost of Chuck Berry. Shannon, who pretended to be very young, had been hailed as a "child prodigy." Runaway (Big Top, 1961) also includes Hats Off To Larry and Hey Little Girl. The hit single Little Town Flirt (1962) is on the album with the same title, Little Town Flirt (Big Top, 1963). Del Shannon was one of the first white rockers to write his own material. In reality he modeled himself after Roy Orbison, the self-pitying author of Cry, Myself To Sleep, Crying, She Cried, etc. Shannon's most intense melodrama was Little Miss Maid. Keep Searchin' (1964) and Stranger In Town (1965) were his last songs. Both are worthy of praise, but at the time they lacked commercial appeal. The Definitive Collection (Recall, 1999) is a very good anthology. Shannon committed suicide in February 1990. |
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