Del Shannon: Rock's Runaway Returns
Ken Barnes, Phonograph Record, April 1975
THEY'RE ALL COMING back. Sedaka, Anka and Vinton hit the top of the charts again, but you all know that story backwards and forwards. Almost all the other solo stars of the early sixties are launcing their re-entries into the pop orbit as well, though.
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