Little Town Flirt/Handy Man [Import, Original recording remastered]

Del Shannon | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 15, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Original recording remastered
• Label: Bgo - Beat Goes on
• ASIN: B000009QA7
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #176,304 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Two Kinds of Teardrops

2. Dream Baby

3. Happiness

4. Two Silhouettes

5. She Thinks I Still Care

6. My Wild One

7. Runaround Sue

8. From Me to You

9. Kelly

10. Hey Baby

11. Go Away, Little Girl

12. Little Town Flirt

13. Memphis

14. That's the Way Love Is

15. Ruby Baby

16. I'll Be Lonely Tomorrow

17. I Can't Fool Around Anymore

18. Handy Man

19. Crying

20. Mary Jane

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Two-on-one featuring his 1963 & 1964 Decca albums, respectively, paired together. Remastered from the original master tapes, each also features faithfully restored original artwork and additional sleeve notes. 24 tracks total, including the hits 'Two Kinds Of Teardrops', 'From MeTo You', 'Little Town Flirt' and 'Handy Man'. 1998 BGO release.

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Classic Shannon sound, June 17, 2001

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Zub "Zubenelgenubi" (Forks Twp., PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Little Town Flirt/Handy Man (Audio CD)

BGO records of the U.K. offers up this two-fer containing the earlier Big-Top era "Little Town Flirt" album and the rejuvenated Del Shannon's Amy "Handy Man" album.

The "... Flirt" album presents some of his best material from his earlier hit-making days. Of note is that many of the songs here (tracks 1-3,5,7,9-12) are the rare stereo versions and while some may say they are inferior to the single mixes, they have a sound stage and fidelity that really brings the material alive.

The "Handy Man" album is the first of Del's second wind string of hits on Amy. These tracks are all in mono. While Del's classic sound remains on this group of tracks, there is little original material of the quality of his Big Top era. It does present the grittier "Handy Man" Jimmy Jones remake and the first U.S.-charted Lennon-McCartney tune, "From Me To You".

Although both albums have been taken from original masters, the sound quality is better on the "Flirt" album sides (the Amy stuff has always been saturated-sounding). With so many greatest hits collections available on Shannon, this piece is notable for the "Flirt" album - both for content and sound quality.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Two album CD covers some of Del's best material, August 18, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Little Town Flirt/Handy Man (Audio CD)

Little Town Flirt was re-released a few years ago. Many biographers considered it Del's best album. Indeed, the biggest hits are found on it (Runaway and Hats Off to Larry as well as the title track). "Handy Man" was cut during the "Amy" label years. This was when Del had the Royaltones as his backup band. In Del's opinion, these were the best guys he got to perform with. While there are several forgettable covers, "Give Her Lots of Lovin'" and "Mary Jane" are very good Del originals. If you want to get one Del album that is not just greatest hits fare, and prefer the early years, this is an excellent choice. For collectors, this is the only way I know of to get the "Handy Man" tracks on CD.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars SHANNON'S 2ND & 3RD L.P.'S - NEEDED REMNANTS OF THE 60'S., May 7, 2010

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This review is from: Little Town Flirt/Handy Man (Audio CD)

This twofer is Shannon's 2nd & 3rd original L.P.'s.

These two L.P.'s for the most part, continue the sound that Shannon started with.

This is the sound he is best remember for.

His sound changed considerablely in his later albums.

There are elevan original songs of these 24 that are written/co-written by Shannon.

This original music adds greatly to the freshness of these albums.

Seven songs were co-written with a Mr. McKenzie.

As the story goes,

"McKenzie was a black guy who turned up at one of Del's recording sessions

with half a dozen songs that he had begun to write and could not finish off.

Following the completion of these tracks, Mr. McKenzie just disappeared".

Four songs charted from these two L.P.'s, three b-sides are here also:

1. "Little town flirt" 1962.

2. "Two kinds of teardrops" b/w "Kelly" 1963.

3. "From me to you" b/w "Two silhouettes" 1963.

4. "Handy man" b/w "Give her lots of lovin'"

The other tracks are all good supportive songs

that make this twofer a TOTAL listening pleasure.

All tracks are very much the SOUND and FEEL of the early 60's.

This is some of Del Shannon's best before his departure

to the 'muffled' sounding productions of his music in the later 60's and beyond.

All original recordings from the early 1960s. (1962, 1963, & 1964)

If you like the early 60's music, you'll need this remnant of that fabric.

This c.d. is nicely presented, it includes six pages of liner notes,

and sounds excellent. (Mono recordings)

Produced by BGO (Beat Goes On Records) in 1998, Suffolk, England. U.K.