Little Town Flirt (album)

Little Town Flirt
Little Town Flirt
Studio album by Del Shannon
Released	June 1963
Recorded	May 1962 – March 1963
Genre	Rock and roll
Length	29:28
Label	Bigtop Records
Producer	Embee Productions
Del Shannon chronology
Alternate cover
	Little Town Flirt (UK)
Singles from Little Town Flirt
	"Little Town Flirt"; Released: November 1962; "Two Kinds of Teardrops"; Released: March 1963;

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".^[1] 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".^[2] 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 ^[3]

The album debuted on the Billboard Top LPs chart in the issue dated June 22, 1963, and remained on the album chart for 26 weeks, peaking at No. 12, his highest position had achieved on that chart.^[4]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[5]
New Record Mirror	^[6]

Richie Unterberger of AllMusic noted that "Half of the songs on Shannon's second album [...] are on Greatest Hits. These are also the best and most popular songs on Little Town Flirt, which is filled out with competent but unremarkable covers of early '60s hits [...] That means that everyone except Shannon collectors should head to Greatest Hits instead."^[5]

New Record Mirror called it "excellent album" and stated that "A few other hits will be noticed if you scan the title list. Undoubtedly another winner as Del is in top form".^[7]

Track listing

US release

Side one

All tracks are written by Del Shannon unless otherwise stated.

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Two Kinds of Teardrops"	Maron McKenzie	2:29
2.	"Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream)"	Cindy Walker	2:35
3.	"Happiness"	Del Shannon, Jim Ellis	2:20
4.	"Hey! Little Girl"		2:28
5.	"She Thinks I Still Care"	Dickey Lee, Steve Duffy	2:40
6.	"Runaway"	Max Crook, Shannon	2:19

Side two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Runaround Sue"	Dion DiMucci, Ernie Maresca	2:36
2.	"Hats Off to Larry"		2:00
3.	"Kelly"	Del Shannon, Marron McKenzie	2:39
4.	"Hey! Baby"	Margaret Cobb, Bruce Channel	2:25
5.	"Go Away Little Girl"	Carole King, Gerry Goffin	2:17
6.	"Little Town Flirt"	Del Shannon, Maron McKenzie	2:40

UK release

Side one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Two Kinds of Teardrops"	Maron McKenzie	2:29
2.	"Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream)"	Cindy Walker	2:35
3.	"Happiness"	Del Shannon, Jim Ellis	2:20
4.	"Two Silhouettes"	Maron McKenzie	2:20
5.	"She Thinks I Still Care"	Dickey Lee, Steve Duffy	2:40
6.	"My Wild One"	Maron McKenzie	2:02

Side two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Runaround Sue"	Dion DiMucci, Ernie Maresca	2:36
2.	"From Me to You"	Lennon–McCartney	1:57
3.	"Kelly"	Marron McKenzie	2:39
4.	"Hey! Baby"	Margaret Cobb, Bruce Channel	2:25
5.	"Go Away Little Girl"	Carole King, Gerry Goffin	2:17
6.	"Little Town Flirt"	Maron McKenzie	2:40