Total Commitment

Total Commitment
Studio album by
Del Shannon
ReleasedOctober 1966
GenreRock and roll
Length31:28
LabelLiberty
ProducerDallas Smith
Del Shannon chronology
This Is My Bag
(1966) 		Total Commitment
(1966) 		The Further Adventures of Charles Westover
(1968)
Singles from Total Commitment
  1. "Show Me"
    Released: June 24, 1966
  2. "Under My Thumb"
    Released: August 5, 1966

Total Commitment is the eighth studio album by American rock and roll singer-songwriter Del Shannon, and his second for Liberty Records, Released in October 1966.

It includes multiple cover songs, including "Sunny", "Red Rubber Ball", and "Time Won't Let Me", as well as the singles "Show Me" and "Under My Thumb", which reached number 128 on Billboard's Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart[1] and number 99 on the Cashbox singles chart.[2]

The album was released on compact disc by Beat Goes On on March 19, 1996, as tracks 13 through 24 on a pairing of two albums on one CD with tracks 1 through 12 consisting of Shannon's 1966 Debut Liberty album, This Is My Bag[3] Bear Family included also the album in the 2004 Home and Away box set.[4] Edsel Records included the album in the 2023 Stranger in Town: A Del Shannon Compendium box set.[5]

Background

Liberty wanted to get Shannon back into the studio to record another album, and get another single or two in the mix. "What Makes You Run" and "I Can't Be True", both originals, "What Makes You Run" followed "Under My Thumb" in the sense of arrangement and instrumentation. He truly thought he had a winner with "Thumb" to be a hit."[6]

Dan Bourgoise reflected on the second batch of cover songs: "If Del never did cover songs, that would be one thing. But he was always one who would do a few cover songs on his albums...[he] would find a song that he really liked that he thought he could add something to, to make it his own."[7]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[8]
New Record Mirror[9]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[10]

Total Commitment received positive retrospective reviews. Bruce Eder of AllMusic said that "Total Commitment is almost a roots rock record compared with This Is My Bag, which preceded it, And even amid such classic compositions as 'Where Were You When I Needed You,' 'Time Won't Let Me,' and 'Summer in the City."[8]

Record Mirror described the album as an "unpretentiously en-joyable Beat album".[9]

The Honolulu Advertiser stated that Total Commitment is soul supreme, "Under My Thumb" and "Sunny" are standout.[11]

Track listing

Side one

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Under My Thumb"Jagger/Richards2:47
2."Red Rubber Ball"Paul Simon, Bruce Woodley2:50
3."She Was Mine"Roy Nievelt2:42
4."Where Were You When I Needed You"P.F. Sloan, Steve Barri2:54
5."The Joker Went Wild"Bobby Russell2:27
6."The Pied Piper"Steve Duboff, Artie Kornfeld2:07

Side two

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Sunny"Bobby Hebb2:52
2."Show Me" 2:27
3."Time Won't Let Me"Tom King, Chet Kelley2:35
4."What Makes You Run" 2:42
5."I Can't Be True" 2:20
6."Summer in the City"John Sebastian, Mark Sebastian, Steve Boone2:45

Charts

Singles
Year Single Chart Peak
1966 "Under My Thumb" US Billboard Hot 100[1] 128
US Cash Box[2] 99

References

  1. ^ a b Whitburn, Joel (1982). Joel Whitburn's Bubbling under the hot 100, 1959-1981. Menomonee Falls, Wis: Record Research. p. 148. ISBN 978-0-8982-0047-8.
  2. ^ a b Downey, Pat (1994). Cash box pop singles charts, 1950-1993. Englewood, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited. p. 310. ISBN 1-56308-316-7.
  3. ^ "This Is My Bag/Total Commitment". allmusic.com. Retrieved October 9, 2024.
  4. ^ "Home and Away: The Complete Recordings 1960-1970". AllMusic. Retrieved 29 November 2024.
  5. ^ "Stranger in Town: A Del Shannon Compendium". AllMusic. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  6. ^ Runaway - The Del Shannon Story. Xlibris Corporation. 30 June 2023. ISBN 9798369401477.
  7. ^ Runaway - The Del Shannon Story. Xlibris Corporation. 30 June 2023. ISBN 9798369401477.
  8. ^ a b Eder, Bruce. ""Total Commitment" - Album Review". AllMusic. Retrieved 2023-11-25.
  9. ^ a b Jones, Peter; Jopling, Norman (11 February 1967). "albums reviewed by Norman Jopling and Peter Jones: NEW LP'S FROM U.S. STARS - PITNEY, ALPERT, RAWLS & DEL" (PDF). New Record Mirror. No. 309. p. 8. Retrieved 11 January 2024.
  10. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. p. 1250. ISBN 9781846098567. Retrieved 22 August 2024.
  11. ^ "The Honolulu Advertiser 27 Oct 1966, page 26". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2023-12-29.

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