The album may or may not be obsolete, but the fact remains: Listeners have long obsessed over individual songs. The Single File is The A.V. Club’s look at the deep cuts, detours, experiments, and ...

Enchanted by Del Shannon's "Runaway" as a boy, Tom Petty later paid the ultimate tribute to this No. 1 single and its singer: He saluted the tune in his own 1989 hit song, "Runnin' Down a Dream." ...

Rock 'n' roll was music for teenagers. That's what was magic about it. The best of those '50s and early '60s singles are the ones that treat teenage concerns -- life-altering crushes, ...

COOPERSVILLE – Del Shannon had an inkling "Runaway" might be a special rock song, so he played it again and again long before it was released in 1961 and shot to the top of the charts. His wife, ...

A simple minor chord strummed on the guitar sets the mood for the 1961 smash hit “Runaway.” The tinkling piano, upright bass, drums, and baritone saxophone back the simple figure. Del Shannon would go ...

This July 7 CD release contains an unreleased 1977 Del Shannon album recorded in Dublin with his UK touring band, “Smackee.” Del, famous for “Runaway” plus other greats such as “Hats Off to Larry,” ...