Editing Del Shannon (section)

===Liberty Records, United Artists Records and Island Records===
Shannon signed with Liberty in 1966 and revived [[Toni Fisher]]'s "[[The Big Hurt (song)|The Big Hurt]]" and the [[the Rolling Stones|Rolling Stones]]' "Under My Thumb". [[Peter and Gordon]] released his song "[[I Go to Pieces]]" in 1965.<ref name=del/>

In September 1967, Shannon began laying down the tracks for ''[[The Further Adventures of Charles Westover]]'', which was highly regarded by fans and critics alike despite disappointing sales. The album yielded two 1968 singles, "Thinkin' It Over" and "Gemini". In October 1968, Liberty Records released their tenth (in the United States) and final Shannon single, a cover of [[Dee Clark]]'s 1961 hit "[[Raindrops (Dee Clark song)|Raindrops]]". This brought to a close a commercially disappointing period in Shannon's career. In 1972, he signed with [[United Artists Records|United Artists]] and recorded ''Live in England'', released in June 1973. Reviewer Chris Martin critiqued the album favourably, saying that Shannon never improvised, was always true to the original sounds of his music and that only [[Lou Christie]] rivaled his [[falsetto]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Del Shannon's River Still Flows|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=December 23, 1973|page=H-51}}</ref> In April 1975, he signed with [[Island Records]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Pop News|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=April 6, 1975|page=M-59}}</ref>

After he and his manager jointly sought back royalties for Shannon, [[Bug Music]] was founded in 1975 to administer his songs.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.songwriteruniverse.com/bug.htm |title=Fred Bourgoise of Bug Music |publisher=Songwriteruniverse.com |access-date=March 25, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320200414/http://www.songwriteruniverse.com/bug.htm |archive-date=March 20, 2012}}</ref> By 2011, when Bug was acquired by [[BMG Rights Management]], its catalogue had grown to include 250,000 compositions.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2011/music/news/bmg-acquires-publisher-bug-music-1118042654/|title = BMG acquires publisher Bug Music|date = September 12, 2011}}</ref>

A 1976 article on Shannon's concert at the [[the Roxy Theatre|Roxy Theatre]] described the singer as "personal, pure and simple rock 'n' roll, dated but gratifyingly undiluted." Shannon sang some of his new rock songs along with classics like "Endless Sleep" and "The Big Hurt". The ''Los Angeles Times'' wrote, "Shannon's haunting vignettes of heartbreak and restlessness contain something of a cosmic undercurrent which has the protagonist tragically doomed to a bleak, shadowy struggle."<ref>{{cite news|author=Cromelin, Richard|title=At The Roxy—Undiluted Aura of Del Shannon|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=January 21, 1976|page=E11}}</ref>