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Del Shannon - Runaway (1961) 1961... #1 US Cash Box Top 100 #1 US Billboard Hot 100 #1 UK Singles Chart #1 New Zealand Charts #1 Canada Top Singles.. If you’re not in the music business, you probably don’t know who Max Crook is. But you might know of his work. In the early 1960s, crooner Del Shannon released the ethereal hit “Runaway,” which went straight to No. 1 on the music charts. Crook co-wrote the tune and also played the strange keyboard sounds in the middle on something he invented called a Musitron. Max Crook, We were playing at the Hi-Lo nightclub in Battle Creek, Michigan, a few nights a week and Del decided he was getting tired of the same-old, same-old blues progression songs. “Let’s try something different,” Del told me. So I played a couple of new chords back to back - an A-minor and a G - and he said, “I like that. I’m going to try to write something.” So he started singing random words – some here, some there. Then he told me to play something for the musical bridge in the middle of the song. At that time, I had built a little instrument called the Musitron, and it was sitting alongside the keyboard of the piano. So when the time came to make the bridge, I just played what came out of my head. What you hear on the record is precisely what I came up with on the Musitron, with no changes whatsoever. A lot of people have told me it is very unique and interesting. But to me, at the time, it was just something that flowed out. / Classic Hits {Stereo} 88,4 тыс. подписчиков на утубе 611 796 просмотров с 01-11-2021 по 01-01-2023
