Name: Del Shannon Performs "Runaway" | Letterman
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Del Shannon Performs "Runaway" | Letterman' from Letterman on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-11-24. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Del Shannon Performs "Runaway" | Letterman' from Letterman on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-11-24. Transcript available.

listen to this 26 years ago our next guest had a number one hit called runaway
and at its peak
of popularity this song was selling at the rate of 80 000 singles a day it has
been performed by
elvis presley and the beach boys and can currently be heard as the theme on nbc's
crime story here
now singing runaway with paul and the band please welcome dell shannon
how does i still walk on together my heart's real young i'm a walking in the
rain tears are falling and i feel the pain wishing you were ever by me to end
this misery i wonder
why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why
she ran away and i wonder where you're gonna stay yeah you will run away and
run run run run run work it out paul one time
i'm a walk in the rain
She's a-fallin' and I feel the pain, she knew better by me, to endless misery.
And I wonder, I wonder, girl, why? She ran away.
And I won't where you're gonna stay, yeah.
I will run away.
Run, run, run, run, run away.
Run, run, run, run, run away.
Run, run, run, run, run away.
Run, run, run, run, run, run away.
Yes, sir. Very nice. Nice job. Nice to have you. We'll be right back.
That song sounds terrific. It's one of those songs every time you hear it, it
still sounds as great as when you first heard it.
Thank you. Now, was it really selling 80,000 copies a day?
Well, that's what I heard. I don't think I got paid that much.
Yeah. But you did pretty well by it, didn't you?
Yeah, I did well. And you wrote that when you were working in a...
I wrote that song at the Hilo Club in Battle Creek, Michigan. It was on stage
in Max Crook, Max a million, actually.
I played an A minor and a G.
And you wrote it right there.
Wrote it right there. Follow me and the next day I wrote it in the carpet store.
You finished it up there.
Yeah.
Uh, come back and do the other ones. It sounds terrific.
Thank you.
Uh, we gotta go. My thanks to, uh, George the Chimp. I'm sorry, it's George the
Comedian.
Uh, Mike the Chimp and Del Shannon. We'll see you folks tomorrow. Thank you
very much.