BREAK-A-WAY

Created on 05/12/2005
Latest update on 22/03/2022

Artist: Jackie DeShannon
Author: Jackie DeShannon/Sharon Sheeley
Label: Liberty
Year: 1963

Released on cd What The World Needs Now: Jackie DeShannon - The Definitive Collection in '94. Coauthor Sharon Sheeley was Eddie Cochran's girlfriend when he got killed in a car accident in '60.

Covers:

1964:

Irma Thomas [first released version as B-side of Wish Someone Would Care]

1964:

Agnès Loti [als Je pars sans regrets]

1965:

Beryl Marsden

1983:

Tracey Ullman [n°2 NL, top 5 UK]

1989:

Miki Honeycutt

1998:

Detroit Cobras

2006:

Roxanne Potvin

Nick Lowe's Breakaway ('84) was originally a song by The Springfields ('61).

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