At 11:46 PM 6/30/2003 -0700, Jocelyn Geboy wrote:
>~~~~is there some sort of del shannon's greatest
>hits/comp or something??? just seeing all these titles
>makes me go...oh yeah!!! awesome!  much like sam
>cooke, who i know so much of his music but didn't
>necessarily know at the time that it was all sam
>cooke, i'm thinking that i need to get at least a grt.
>hits of del shannon.

There's a Rhino disc that's still in print and has most everything you
would need, including his version of "From Me To You."  If you dig that,
check out THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF CHARLES WESTOVER (his real name) from
1968, one of the few really credible post-psych records made by an early
'60s rocker.
>
>early death on del..?? car crash? suicide??  

Not so much early -- I think he was well into his 50s -- but he did commit
suicide in 1990.  There's been speculation that it was caused by a bad
reaction to Prozac or a similar antidepressant that he had been taking, an
unfortunately uncommon side effect of over-prescribed mood elevators.

S

NP: "She Twists the Knife Again" -- Richard Thompson