{"id":1337,"date":"2008-04-02T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-04-02T00:04:18","modified_gmt":"2008-04-02T00:04:18","slug":"artist-i-still-need-to-check-out-in-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/artist-i-still-need-to-check-out-in-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist I Still Need to Check Out in More Depth: Del Shannon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the first time I heard it, probably at the age of 5 or 6, <strong>Del Shannon<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;Runaway&#8221; has been one of the most fascinating songs I&#8217;ve ever heard. It sounds as fresh, yearning, and alien as ever. As much as I love this song, however, I don&#8217;t recall hearing any other song by Shannon except &#8220;Hats Off to Larry&#8221;, his other minor hit. (That is the name of that song, right? Pince Nez me if you must.) Oh, I think a friend once played me his psychedelic album, the one with his real name in the title. I barely remember a thing about it.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight I came across this old Del Shannon clip.<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/byJEPs732LY?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>All I can say is, it&#8217;s time I finally check out this artist in more depth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the first time I heard it, probably at the age of 5 or 6, Del Shannon&#8216;s &#8220;Runaway&#8221; has been one of the most fascinating songs I&#8217;ve ever heard. It sounds as fresh, yearning, and alien as ever. As much as I love this song, however, I don&#8217;t recall hearing any other song by Shannon <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/artist-i-still-need-to-check-out-in-more\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}