Del Shannon

Music... and my favourite gigs by LoisJuly 28, 2016

I was all right for a while

‘Crying’ was written by Roy Orbison and Joe Melson; it was released in July 1961 and reached number 1 in the United States. It was released again in 1987 by Roy as a duet with k.d.lang. It’s been performed by many other singers including|: Waylon Jennings Del Shannon . Gene Pitney Clay Aiken. Il Divo Glen Campbell

Music... and my favourite gigs by LoisJuly 3, 2014

Hats off!

We somehow got into a conversation about Del Shannon, the American singer who I remember hearing on the radio when I was young. We didn’t have a TV and there wasn’t the same ‘pop’ culture as there is now, so I had no idea what he looked like. Popular music wasn’t so universal either; these days […]