Del Shannon Runaway (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 youre not in the music business, you probably dont 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 cowrote 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 HiLo nightclub in Battle Creek, Michigan, a few nights a week and Del decided he was getting tired of the sameold, sameold blues progression songs. Lets try something different, Del told me. So I played a couple of new chords back to back an Aminor and a G and he said, I like that. Im 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