We're now on the 28th record to peak at 40, and already we're on the 10th act to have scored both a Number 1 and a Number 40. Del Shannon also becomes the 2nd act after Conway Twitty to begin their Top 40 career with a Number 1 and end with a Number 40.
His Top 40 career began 4 years earlier with "Runaway". The following 2 years saw a solid run of 7 Top 40 hits of which 6 made the Top 10.
However the last of these came at the same time the Beatles had their first number one. Being from the pre-Beatles era, his Top 40 career started to decline with his following 4 Top 40 hits not even making the Top 20.
At the start of 1965 though it looked like he had a new lease of life with the record "Keep Searchin' (We'll Follow The Sun)" which would peak at 3. It was still in the Top 40 when "Stranger In Town" entered at 40.
The song is the sequel to the former, so in theory it should have been successful as the record public who got that record to 3 in the charts should be interested to hear what happens next.
It wasn't to be and the week after this peaked at 40, both records dropped out of the Top 40 and it would make the end of Del Shannon's Top 40 career. He never stopped making records and did so right up until his death in 1990.
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