Susie Q

Album: Oh Suzy-Q: The Best of Dale Hawkins (1956)
Charted: 27
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  • (Susie Q)
    Oh, Susie Q
    Oh, Susie Q
    I love you, my Susie Q

    I like the way you walk
    I like the way you talk
    I like the way you walk
    I like the way you talk, my Susie Q

    Oh, Susie Q
    Oh, Susie Q
    Oh, Susie Q, baby I love you
    My Susie Q

    We say that you'll be true
    We say that you'll be true
    We say that you'll be true
    And never leave me blue, my Susie Q

    Oh, Susie Q
    Oh, Susie Q
    Oh, Susie Q, I love you, my Susie Q Writer/s: Dale Hawkins, Eleanor Broadwater, Stanley J. Lewis
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management
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Comments: 2

  • Buddy from ChicagoIt first appeared on the Billboard Top 100 Sides chart for the week ending June 5, 1957 and peaked at the 29th position for the weeks ending June 29 and July 6, 1957.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn August 6, 1957, Dale Hawkins performed "Susie-Q" on the Dick Clark ABC-TV weekday-afternoon program 'American Bandstand'...
    At the time the song was at #7* on Billboard's Most Played by R&B Jockeys chart...
    In June it peaked at #27 on Billboard's Best Seller in Stores chart and #29 on the Top 100 chart...
    On the same 'Bandstand' show Don Rondo performed "White Silver Sands", it was at #10 at the time, while Elvis' "Teddy Bear" was in it's sixth of seven weeks at #1...
    *According to Billboard "Susie-Q" was tied at #7 with two other records, "Long Lonely Nights" by Clyde McPhatter and "Whispering Bells" by the Del-Vikings.
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