Del Shannon - Little Town Flirt

About "Little Town Flirt"

Little Town Flirt is the third studio album by American rock and roll singer-songwriter Del Shannon, released in June 1963 by Bigtop Records. His final album for the label, it features the singles "Two Kinds of Teardrops" and "Little Town Flirt. They peaked at numbers 50 and 12, respectively, on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the United States, and numbers 5 and 4, respectively, in the United Kingdom. Little Town Flirt included multiple cover songs, including "Dream Baby", "Go Away Little Girl", and "Runaround Sue". It also included Del Shannon's second U.S. top five hit, "Hats off to Larry". because the Hats Off to Del Shannon album was released only in England, the U.S. and U.K. Little Town Flirt albums would have three track variances. in America, it was decided with Bigtop to include the big hits "Runaway", "Hats Off to Larry", and "Hey! Little Girl". London Records opted to insert in their place "From Me To You" (having been omitted in England as a single purposely, due to The Beatles" own Version), "Two Silhousettes", and "My Wild One", which would be the current single in England The album made its first appearance on Billboard Top LPs chart in the issue dated June 22 of that year and remained on the album chart for 26 weeks, peaking at #12.