Del Shannon
early 70's (see text below for explanations)
Kansas City, Kansas USA
audience recording

2 Bonus tracks from an unknown television appearance 1961

From The Moose Track Collection

Sony Cassette Deck>Alesis 9500 Masterlink (no EQ)>AIFF
File conversion done with xACT setting of 6


The story of The Moose Track collection

In the late 80Õs a buddy of mine in Pennsylvania told me during my visit to the East coast about a tiny independent record store in Port Jervis, NY called Moose track Records. He thought I be interested in a box of live tapes he saw for sale in there. I went over almost immediately and sure enough there it was, a box of 72 cassettes. Some without labels. Some were generic white cassettes with a white cardboard insert. Most were TDK normal bias. Some were from the sixties, most from the seventies. Some were from BBC, most were audience recordings from the NY/east coast area. I bought them all at 50 cents a tape. Bands I knew: Devo, NY Dolls, Capt. Beefheart, Runaways,Tom Petty, Elvis Costello, Led Zeppelin, Graham Parker, Rockpile, Damned. Bands I didnÕt know: Ducks Deluxe, Eddie and The Hotrods, Frankie Miller. Some cool oddballs: Johnny Rotten DJ-ing at the BBC, Monty Python in a radio appearance, a 10 minute radio clip devoted to the death of Paul McCarthy.
Yes, IÕve digitized them all with no EQ. All are a bit hissy, some have drop outs, the listening qualities vary wildly and IÕll do my best to describe them and post samples.
A lot has surfaced in better qualities over the years so feel free to ask about anything IÕve mentioned, you might already have it.
ALSO! Feel free to EQ or tweak the pitch or whatever. If you can genuinely clean up any of these do it, post it just be clear that itÕs your whatever version. I hear the potential in a lot of these recordings, but I simply donÕt have the time or place to do it myself. I near the master cassettes for a short time and retransferred a ... I donÕt know. A dozen or so and I intend to post and seed as much as I can.
-Hitwitstuff2 (but you can call me Hitwitstuff)

This one is kinda sad. A tired sounding Del Shannon with a not great back up band playing what sounds like a very small room. IÕm guessing Kansas City because also on this Moose Track cassette is also a NY Dolls show simply labeled ÒKansasÓ and part two of a Todd Rungren Show labeled ÒKansas Memorial September 1974.Ó I googled Kansas Memorial and got The Kansas City, Kansas Memorial Hall.Ó Anyway, The Del Shannon recording has no date or location on the cardboard label card of the Moose Track cassette. At the start of Crying he name checks Kansas City. No moose track is labeled later than 1978 so I can assume this no brand name Moose Track cassette is 1978 or earlier. Del doesnÕt play his one shot Dave Edmunds-produced single ÒAnd The Music Plays OnÓ and that was 1974. Which can mean this show predates that or he gave up on the single when it did nothing and just resorted to a handful of hits set this night and this show could then be from possibly as late as 1978.
IÕll be uploading the rest of this mysterious Moose Track cassette later this week.
Stay tuned.

1. Hats Off To Larry
2. Handy Man
3. Run around Sue
4. Crying
5. Little Town Flirt
6. cover of a Roy Rogers Yodeling song
7. Follow The Sun
8. Runaway

Bonus tracks from the same Moose Track Cassette. Very good mono recordings of ÒRunawayÓ and ÒHats off To LarryÓ live (vocals for sure) from an unidentified TV Show.
IÕm guessing 1961 because that is when he would have been promoting those two songs. He released an average of 2-4 new singles a year until the late 60Õs. Plus he sounds young and prime!