1Singer-guitarist Charles Westoverand keyboard player Max Crook performed together as members of "Charlie Johnson and the Big Little Show Band" in Battle Creek, Michigan, before their group won a recording contract in 1960.
Westover took the new stage name "Del Shannon", and Crook, who had invented his own clavioline-based electric keyboard became "Maximilian".
After their first recording session for Big Top Records New York City had ended in failure, their manager Ollie McLaughlin persuaded them to rewrite and re-record an earlier song they had written, "Little Runaway", to highlight Crook's unique instrumental sound.

"Runnin' Down a Dream" (1989)

In 1905, comic-strip artist Winsor McCay unveiled Little Nemo in Slumberland, an adventure comic in which young Nemo (allegedly based on McCay’s son) goes on nocturnal journeys. Eighty-four years later, Petty swiped the idea for this Full Moon Fever clip, as an animated Tom and his cigar-chompin’ pal embark on a series of surreal quests involving killer clowns, gigantic rabbits and Native Americans. A live-action Petty provides the cheeky bookends to the video, dressed as the coolest dad-rock Saturday morning kids’ host of all time.

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