Stranger in Town (Del Shannon song)
"Stranger in Town" is a 1965 song by Del Shannon. Written by Shannon, it is the opening track on One Thousand Six-Hundred Sixty-One Seconds of Del Shannon.[1] It was released as a single, a followup (both chronologically and thematically) to Shannon's top-ten hit "Keep Searching (We'll Follow the Sun)",[2] but was not as successful, reaching #30 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the USA[3][2] and #40 in the UK.[citation needed] "Stranger in Town" was Shannon's last top 40 hit of the 1960s.[2]
| “ | "Stranger in Town"... it's one long bleat of terror, the singer and his lover pursued by some unnameable person for reasons just beyond the fringe of rational understanding. | ” |
| — Dave Marsh, The Heart of Rock & Soul[3] | ||
Dave Marsh, in his 1989 book The Heart of Rock & Soul: The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made, ranked "Stranger in Town"' as the 327th best rock or soul single to that date,[3] ahead of Shannon's bigger hits "Keep Searching" (371st in Marsh's book)[4] and "Runaway" (534th).[5]
Howard DeWitt's biography of Shannon is titled "Stranger in Town" after the song.[6]
References
- ↑ Elder, Bruce. One Thousand Six-Hundred Sixty-One Seconds of Del Shannon at AllMusic. Retrieved April 2015.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Unterberger, RIchie. Stranger in Town at AllMusic. Retrieved April 2015.
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- ↑ Marsh 1989, p. 255.
- ↑ Marsh 1989, p. 353.
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