Del Shannon on Tom Petty and Drop Down and Get Me
Stephen K. Peeples, stephenkpeeples.com, 8 January 2017
ROCK 'N' ROLL HALL of Fame member Del Shannon of 'Runaway', 'Hats Off to Larry' and 'Little Town Flirt' renown in the early '60s – and the first American artist to cover and chart with a Lennon-McCartney song when he recorded 'From Me to You' in 1963 – had been off the charts for several years by the late 1970s.
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