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{{Infobox album
| name         = Hats Off to Del Shannon
| type         = studio
| artist       = [[Del Shannon]]
| cover        = Hats Off to Del Shannon.JPG
| released     = May 1963
| recorded     =
| genre        = [[Rock and roll]]
| length       = 28:14
| label        = [[London Records|London]]
| prev_title   = [[Runaway with Del Shannon]]
| prev_year    = 1961
| next_title   = [[Little Town Flirt (album)|Little Town Flirt]]
| next_year    = 1963
}}
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1score = {{rating|2|5}}<ref name="OMG">{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/hats-off-to-del-shannon-mw0000542723|title="Hats Off to Del Shannon" - Album Ratings|publisher=Allmusic|accessdate=2023-11-13}}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[New Record Mirror]]''
| rev2score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name=":1" />
| rev3 = ''[[The Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
| rev3score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |date=2007 |publisher=Omnibus Press |page=1250 |isbn=9781846098567 |url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofpo0000unse_v3u2/page/1250/mode/2up |accessdate=22 August 2024}}</ref>
}}
'''''Hats Off to Del Shannon''''' is the second studio album by American rock and roll singer-songwriter [[Del Shannon]]. It was released in May 1963 in the UK to coincide with Shannon's tour.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fDXKEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT175 |title=RUNAWAY The Del Shannon Story |year=2023 |isbn=9798369401477}}</ref>
This album was not released in the U.S. or Canada.<ref name=":0" /> It contains his last six U.S. A-sides and its six U.S. B-sides. There were no covers of songs recorded specifically for an album release as there were for most of his albums later on.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=Watson |first=Jimmy |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Record-Mirror/60s/63/Record-Mirror-1963-04-27-S-OCR.pdf |title="Del Shannon: Hats Off to Del Shannon" |date=27 April 1963 |publisher=[[New Record Mirror]] |isbn= |edition= |pages=10 |language= |access-date=November 17, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220401224802/https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Record-Mirror/60s/63/Record-Mirror-1963-04-27-S-OCR.pdf |archive-date=April 1, 2022 |issue=111}}</ref>
The album was released on compact disc for the first time by [[BGO Records|Beat Goes On]] on September 27, 1997 as tracks 13 through 24 on a pairing of two albums on one CD with tracks 1 through 12 consisting of  Shannon's Debut's album from June 1961, [[Runaway with Del Shannon]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Runaway With Del Shannon / Hats Off To Del Shannon |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/runaway-with-del-shannon-hats-off-to-del-shannon-mw0000768660 |access-date=18 September 2024 |work=allmusic.com |publisher=}}</ref> [[Bear Family Records|Bear Family]] included also the album in the 2004 Home and Away box set.<ref>{{cite web |title=Home and Away: The Complete Recordings 1960-1970 |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/home-and-away-the-complete-recordings-1960-1970-mw0000633862 |access-date=29 November 2024 |website=AllMusic}}</ref> [[Edsel Records]] included the album in the 2023 ''Stranger in Town: A Del Shannon Compendium'' box set.<ref>{{cite web |title=Stranger in Town: A Del Shannon Compendium |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/stranger-in-town-a-del-shannon-compendium-mw0003906340 |access-date=18 September 2024 |work=allmusic.com |publisher=}}</ref>
== Reception ==
[[Record Mirror|New Record Mirror]] described the album "as entertaining a collection of contemporary pop"<ref name=":1">{{Cite magazine |last=Watson |first=Jimmy |date=27 April 1963 |title=Del Shannon: ''Hats Off to Del Shannon'' |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Record-Mirror/60s/63/Record-Mirror-1963-04-27-S-OCR.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220401224802/https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Record-Mirror/60s/63/Record-Mirror-1963-04-27-S-OCR.pdf |archive-date=1 April 2022 |access-date=17 November 2023 |magazine=[[New Record Mirror]] |page=10 |issue=111}}</ref>
== Track listing ==
{{Track listing
| all_writing = [[Del Shannon]], except where noted.
| headline = Side one
| title1 = [[The Swiss Maid]]
| length1 = 2:07
| writer1 = [[Roger Miller]]
| title2 = Cry Myself to Sleep
| length2 = 2:22
| writer2 =
| title3 = Ginny in the Mirror
| length3 = 2:11
| writer3 = [[Doc Pomus]], [[Mort Shuman]]
| title4 = You Never Talked About Me
| length4 = 2:12
| writer4 = [[Doc Pomus]], [[Mort Shuman]]
| title5 = Don't Gild the Lily, Lily
| length5 = 2:21
| writer5 = Arthur Altman
| title6 = I Won't Be There
| length6 = 2:02
}}
{{Track listing
| headline = Side two
| title1 = [[Hats Off to Larry]]
| length1 = 2:02
| title2 = The Answer to Everything
| length2 = 2:46
| writer2 = [[Burt Bacharach]], [[Bob Hilliard]]
| title3 = [[Hey! Little Girl]]
| length3 = 2:31
| title4 = I'm Gonna Move On
| length4 = 2:49
| title5 = I Don't Care Anymore
| length5 = 2:52
| title6 = So Long Baby
| length6 = 1:59
}}
== References ==
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