Del Shannon - RUNAWAY (Piano Tutorial)

FREE SHEETS: Patreon: “Runaway“ is a number-one Billboard Hot 100 song made famous by Del Shannon in 1961. It was written by Shannon and keyboardist Max Crook, and became a major international hit. It is No. 472 on Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, compiled in 2010. Singer-guitarist Charles Westover and keyboard player Max Crook performed together as members of “Charlie Johnson and the Big Little Show Band“ in Battle Creek, Michigan, before their group won a recording contract in 1960. Westover took the new stage name “Del Shannon“, and Crook, who had invented his own clavioline-based electric keyboard called a Musitron, became “Maximilian“. After their first recording session for Big Top Records in New York City had ended in failure, their manager Ollie McLaughlin persuaded them to rewrite and re-record an earlier song they