| Hats Off to Del Shannon | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | May 1963 | |||
| Genre | Rock and roll | |||
| Length | 28:14 | |||
| Label | London | |||
| Del Shannon chronology | ||||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| New Record Mirror | [2] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [3] |
Hats Off to Del Shannon is the second studio album by American rock and roll singer-songwriter Del Shannon. It was released in May 1963 in the UK to coincide with Shannon's tour.[4]
This album was not released in the U.S. or Canada.[4] It contains his last six U.S. A-sides and its six U.S. B-sides. There were no covers of songs recorded specifically for an album release as there were for most of his albums later on.[4][5]
The album was released on compact disc for the first time by Beat Goes On on September 27, 1997 as tracks 13 through 24 on a pairing of two albums on one CD with tracks 1 through 12 consisting of the other album being Shannon's Debut's album from June 1961, Runaway with Del Shannon,[6] Edsel Records included this CD in a box set entitled Stranger in Town: A Del Shannon Compendium, which contains 14th of his studio albums and three compilation and was released on February 24, 2023.[7]
- ^ ""Hats Off to Del Shannon" - Album Ratings". Allmusic. Retrieved 2023-11-13.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
:1was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. p. 1250. ISBN 9781846098567. Retrieved 22 August 2024.
- ^ a b c RUNAWAY The Del Shannon Story. 2023. ISBN 9798369401477.
- ^ Watson, Jimmy (27 April 1963). "Del Shannon: Hats Off to Del Shannon" (PDF). New Record Mirror. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 1, 2022. Retrieved November 17, 2023.
- ^ "Runaway With Del Shannon / Hats Off To Del Shannon". allmusic.com. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
- ^ "Stranger in Town: A Del Shannon Compendium". allmusic.com. Retrieved 18 September 2024.