| Little Town Flirt | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Del Shannon |
| Cover: | Little Town Flirt (Del Shannon USA album).jpg |
| Released: | June 1963 |
| Recorded: | May 1962 – March 1963 |
| Genre: | Rock and roll |
| Length: | 29:28 |
| Label: | Bigtop Records |
| Producer: | Embee Productions |
| Prev Title: | Hats Off to Del Shannon |
| Prev Year: | 1963 |
| Next Title: | Handy Man |
| Next Year: | 1964 |
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]
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".[6]
| Year | Title | US Hot 100[7] | UK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | "Two Kinds of Teardrops" | 50 | 5 |
| "Little Town Flirt" | 12 | 4 |