Del Shannon | The Swiss Maid, Live '89. Del Shannon performs "The Swiss Maid" during the final night of his Australian "Crime Story" tour at the Rooty Hill RSL, New South Wales, March 11, 1989. Del originally recorded the single version, written by Roger Miller, on May 9, 1962 at Columbia Recording Studio in Nashville, Tennessee. It failed to break into the U.S. Top 50 when it was released in the second half of that year but it was a different story in the United Kingdom where it peaked at #2 -