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• Sam Williams from Sherman Oaks.This is one of those songs where we will probably never know if this a true story Del is singing or if he made it up. Now based off of the conviction of his performance in this song, it sounds like he’s not making it up. But who exactly “Larry” is and if he was a real person and if he is singing about a real girl in this song that actually was his ex, we probably will never know that because we can’t ask Del about it because he’s been dead for about 30 years now. His estate might have that info though (or his Surviving kids if he had any). As far as where it was recorded, I suspect either Bell Sound or Mira Sound in New York. Both Eddie Smith and Bill McMeekin are credited engineers on the album this song is on. They both worked out of Bell and Mira in the early 60’s. I would think that that is still Max Crook playing the Musitron Organ on this song, and Bill Ramall on Bari Sax. This was the direct follow up to Runaway, so I don’t think there was a major change up with the session musicians from the first hit to the follow up hit.I don’t think the personnel on Del’s hits dramatically change till he switched labels in 1964 and went over to Amy. When he started to use more Detroit Musicians on his songs like Bob Babbit on bass & Dennis Coffey on guitar who went to New York to record with him.

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