The Dublin Sessions
The Dublin Sessions | ||||
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Studio album by Del Shannon | ||||
Released | July 7, 2017 | |||
Recorded | 1977 | |||
Studio | Ireland's Dublin Sound Studios Dublin, Ireland | |||
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Length | 37:55 | |||
Label | RockBeat | |||
Del Shannon chronology | ||||
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The Dublin Sessions is a posthumous album by American musician Del Shannon which was released on July 7, 2017. He recorded this previously unreleased album in 1977 with his UK-based touring band called Smackee at Ireland's Dublin Sound Studios and was long believed lost.[1]
Background
Shannon shopped around this 1977 material with no success. By the time he got out of rehab and started working with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers on what would become the Petty-produced Drop Down and Get Me, the Dublin material “just sort of fell into the rear-view mirror.”[2] Shannon originally mixed and then remixed the tracks at Cherokee Studios in California but opted to never release them.[1]
Critical reception
Cleveland.com wrote: "Sometimes, when a record label unearths material from the vaults, one listen tells you why it stayed unreleased for so long. Other times, the tracks are good enough to make you wonder how they could have remained in the can until now.[3]
Track listing
Side one
All tracks are written by Del Shannon, except where noted.
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Best Days of My Life" | 3:28 | |
2. | "Love Letters" | Edward Heyman, Victor Young | 3:00 |
3. | "Till I Found You" | 2:25 | |
4. | "Raylene" | 4:14 | |
5. | "One Track Mind" | 3:22 | |
6. | "Black Is Black" | Michelle Grainger, Tony Hayes, Steve Wadey | 3:07 |
Side two
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Oh, Pretty Woman" | Roy Orbison, Bill Dees | 3:31 |
2. | "Another Lonely Night" | 4:06 | |
3. | "Amanda" | Stuart Cowell, Del Shannon | 3:57 |
4. | "Love Don't Come Easy" | Max Crook, Del Shannon | 3:24 |
5. | "Today I Started Loving You Again" | Merle Haggard, Bonnie Owens | 2:21 |
References
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- Runaway with Del Shannon (1961)
- Hats Off to Del Shannon (1963)
- Little Town Flirt (1963)
- Handy Man (1964)
- Del Shannon Sings Hank Williams (1965)
- 1,661 Seconds with Del Shannon (1965)
- This Is My Bag (1966)
- Total Commitment (1966)
- The Further Adventures of Charles Westover (1968)
- Drop Down and Get Me (1981)
- Rock On! (1991)
- Home and Away (2006)
- The Dublin Sessions (2017)
- Live in England (1973)
- "Runaway"
- "Hats Off to Larry"
- "The Swiss Maid"
- "Little Town Flirt"
- "Two Kinds of Teardrops"
- "From Me to You"
- "Handy Man"
- "Do You Want to Dance"
- "Keep Searchin' (We'll Follow the Sun)"
- "Stranger in Town
- "Sea of Love"
- "Go, Jimmy, Go"