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"Susie Q" is a rockabilly song co-written and performed by American musician Dale Hawkins [4] released in 1957. The song was a commercial success and became a classic of the early rock and roll era, being recorded by many other performers in subsequent years.
Suzy Q was released in 1958. Creedence Clearwater Revival's version of the song on their 1968 debut album helped launch their career and today it is probably the best-known version. [5] In 1958 Hawkins recorded a single of Willie Dixon's "My Babe" at the Chess Records studio in Chicago, featuring Telecaster guitarist Roy Buchanan. [6]
Creedence Clearwater Revival is best remembered for the band's first hit single "Susie Q", which had been a hit for Dale Hawkins in 1957. It was released as a single version split into two parts, with the jam session during the coda on the A-side fading out with the guitar solo right before the coda which fades in part two on the B-side.
Later that year, the band began touring nationally across the US and made their first appearances in New York City at the Fillmore East. By 1968, AM radio programmers around the U.S. took note when CCR's cover of the 1956 rockabilly song [13] "Susie Q" received substantial airplay in the San Francisco Bay Area and on Chicago's WLS-AM. [16]
Susie Q, a 1995 American TV film; Suzie Q (manga), a fictional character from Part 2 of the Japanese manga JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Battle Tendency; Suzi Q. Smith (born 1979), American poet; Suzy Q, a 1999 Dutch film starring Carice van Houten; Susie Q, a nickname for Susan Delfino (Teri Hatcher) on the TV show Desperate Housewives
In May 1965, shortly after the release of their single "Bring It On Home to Me", [20] keyboardist Alan Price left pop group the Animals.The reason for his departure from the group has been debated; though some sources claim it was a fear of flying stemming from their American tours, [21] [22] others claim it was a feud between lead singer Eric Burdon and Price regarding royalties over their ...
The first cover version of "Muskrat Candlelight" was an abridged version entitled "Sun Down" recorded by Lani Hall for her 1972 album Sun Down Lady. With composition credit to Willis Alan Ramsey and "additional lyrics" credited to Lani Hall and her husband Herb Alpert , "Sun Down" reformats Ramsey's original tune as a straightforward love song ...
[4] [5] [1] Moulton sang lead on the track, but instead of the original members, he was backed by New York session musicians including members of Levon & the Hawks, later to be known as The Band. Although it barely scraped the Billboard charts, the song would gain a cult following when it was included on Lenny Kaye's Nuggets compilation in 1972.