Hats Off to Del Shannon

Hats Off to Del Shannon
Studio album by
Del Shannon
ReleasedMay 1963
GenreRock and roll
Length28:14
LabelLondon
Del Shannon chronology
Runaway with Del Shannon
(1961) 		Hats Off to Del Shannon
(1963) 		Little Town Flirt
(1963)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
New Record Mirror[2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[3]

Hats Off to Del Shannon is the second studio album by American rock and roll singer-songwriter Del Shannon. It was released in May 1963 in the UK to coincide with Shannon's tour.[4]

This album was not released in the U.S. or Canada.[4] It contains his last six U.S. A-sides and its six U.S. B-sides. There were no covers of songs recorded specifically for an album release as there were for most of his albums later on.[4][5]

The album was released on compact disc for the first time by Beat Goes On on September 27, 1997 as tracks 13 through 24 on a pairing of two albums on one CD with tracks 1 through 12 consisting of the other album being Shannon's Debut's album from June 1961, Runaway with Del Shannon,[6] Edsel Records included this CD in a box set entitled Stranger in Town: A Del Shannon Compendium, which contains 14th of his studio albums and three compilation and was released on February 24, 2023.[7]

Reception

New Record Mirror described the album "as entertaining a collection of contemporary pop"[2]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Del Shannon, except where noted.

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."The Swiss Maid"Roger Miller2:07
2."Cry Myself to Sleep" 2:22
3."Ginny in the Mirror"Doc Pomus, Mort Shuman2:11
4."You Never Talked About Me"Doc Pomus, Mort Shuman2:12
5."Don't Gild the Lily, Lily"Arthur Altman2:21
6."I Won't Be There" 2:02
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Hats Off to Larry" 2:02
2."The Answer to Everything"Burt Bacharach, Bob Hilliard2:46
3."Hey! Little Girl" 2:31
4."I'm Gonna Move On" 2:49
5."I Don't Care Anymore" 2:52
6."So Long Baby" 1:59

References

  1. ^ ""Hats Off to Del Shannon" - Album Ratings". Allmusic. Retrieved 2023-11-13.
  2. ^ a b Watson, Jimmy (27 April 1963). "Del Shannon: Hats Off to Del Shannon" (PDF). New Record Mirror. No. 111. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 17 November 2023.
  3. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. p. 1250. ISBN 9781846098567. Retrieved 22 August 2024.
  4. ^ a b c RUNAWAY The Del Shannon Story. 2023. ISBN 9798369401477.
  5. ^ Watson, Jimmy (27 April 1963). "Del Shannon: Hats Off to Del Shannon" (PDF). New Record Mirror. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 1, 2022. Retrieved November 17, 2023.
  6. ^ "Runaway With Del Shannon / Hats Off To Del Shannon". allmusic.com. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  7. ^ "Stranger in Town: A Del Shannon Compendium". allmusic.com. Retrieved 18 September 2024.


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