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• Honolulu Bill From Detroit from ChicagoOne of their best songs.
• J from Los AngelesGood tune from CCR. This was a cover of the Dale Hawkins original and played in a scene from Apocalypse Now.
• AnonymousI was wondering same thing, what is sung during the instrumental period in the full version. Love when those chords come through. What a banger. This one and ramble ramble. Gonna okay effigy next.
• AnonymousWhat are they singing during the instrumentals? They sing it twice, all in different octaves. It almost sounds like "Fire". Dors anyone out there know? I love this sing and I play it all the time. RIP Tom.
• John from Stevens Point, Wi UsaTo the people commenting about other songs not written by john Fogerty that CCR perform and are popular. The post states the only CCR song not written or cowritten by JF that broke the top 40 is 'Susie Q'.
• Aiken Nutz from Tahlequah OkI'm another one of those guys in the Army when Susie Q was released in 1968. I still love both the orginal & CCR's version. So funky and mysterious sounding. I recently saw the album "Creedence Clearwater Revival" at a Walmart Supercenter in their $5 CD bins! Had to buy it!! I had the vinyl LP back in 1968. Still love CCR hits and I even follow John Fogerty, as well as the Creedence Clearwater Revisited band.
  You just can't go wrong with a CCR song!
• Raunchy from Tulsa, Ok"Susie Q" was played by AFVN radio in Vietnam in '68 when I was there in the Army. Love it still. While in Vietnam, I got to go on R&R to Singapore and went on a city tour that stopped at a huge huge department store & I bought the album at a record shop in the dept. store. What luck! After I left the Army in '69 & went home, me & my brothers played that same album & Susie Q until the record wore out!! Then our love for CCR continued on for years, until they broke up. But what a band! Still love "Susie Q" for that easy, sleazy, funky swamp music.
• Rotunda from Tulsa, Ok"Susie Q" was the first song I heard that turned me on to CCR. I was in the Army's 82nd Airborne at Fort Bragg NC in 1968 & whenever they let us go into town (Fayetteville NC), this was already on local tavern jukeboxes. This was so different....."Swamp Rock" or "Swamp Music" that we loved it and CCR. What a song! I learned that it was co-written by the rockabilly star Dale Hawkins who released his version back in the Fifties. A really great, gritty, funky song to kick-start their career.
• Jonathan from Dallas, TxI've seen and/or heard tow versions of who "Susie Q" was. I heard that she was one of the secretaries at the recording studio, and I read (just recently) that Leonard Chess had a daughter named Susan or Susie for short. Either of these is plausible.
• David from Woburn, MaMy first CCR album was Chronicle, Vol. 1, and this was the lead track. From that moment, I knew I was going to love CCR and still do.
• Matt from Galway, IrelandAnnabelle, I think the title of this song just comes from Suzie Q being used in a lot of blues songs in the 30's and actually, I think, being some sort of a dance step (it's a sort of a heel twist, kind of like The Twist but slower, just imagine yourself twisting with the beat of this song and you got it).
• Lester from New York City, NySuzie Q, Heard It Through The Grapevine and Ramble Tamble are my 3 favorite CCR recordings
• Steve from Victoria, Txmidnight special and cotton fields were also not fogerty originals. steve, victoria, texas
• Steve Dotstar from Los Angeles, Caanother album and song that could be heard in every apartment and dorm during the lsd or drug era.
• Amber from San Francisco, CaGreat song from a great band. Get their greatest hits cd if you don't already have it. A lot of great songs on that one!
• Martin Sheen from Lima, OhThis song is great. A cover of it by Flash Cadalack is featured in my favorite film which is Apocalypse Now
• Confidential from Confidential, Nynot a bad song, very simple, but I love the instrumentals
• Robert from Snellville, GaI met and interviewed Dale Hawkins at the BB King Museum groundbreaking and homecoming in Indianola, MS a couple of years ago.
• Stuart from Galway, IrelandJames Burton was around 15 when that was recorded, allegedly using a Rickenbacker guitar, Stuart Cowell
• Wally from Redondo Beach, CaMidnight Special was first recorded by Led Belly
• Johnny from Shreveport, LaRegarding writers of Suzie Q... I was a teenage,striving singer in shreveport very familar with dale hawkins, james burton and stan lewis from the ole skyway club/louisiana hayride days. I later recorded for capitol records and had songs released by gene vincent,tex ritter,etc. I know first hand the true writer id of suzie q....Dale hawkins and james burton! Stan lewis; was owner of a hole in the wall record shop and had connections with l. Chess of chess records. Gene nobles was a powerful d.J. At the powerful wlac in nashville tn associated with payola... Bottom line... It was common practice for striving artist to give writers credit to influential people like stan lewis and noble's wife in order to get a record deal and air play. People who never wrote one word of a song but got writer's credit. So - henceforth when you hear susie q...Think of james and dale as the true writers of this classic! Johnny f
• John from Shreveport, TxHER NAME WAS SUSAN LEWIS FROM SHREVEPORT LOUISIANNA HER FATHER STAN LEWIS WROTE THE SONG.
• James from Ireland, IrelandDoes anyone know who Suzi Q was??? Was is Suzie Quatro??
• Tom from Dozier, AlI came home one day from jr high school and heard my mom singing along with Creedence, "Oh Suzie Q". I didn't know that she knew the song from the 1950's. At first I thought she was really with it, but I was wrong. CCR's version is still one of my favorite oldies.
• Spencer from Las Vegas, NvThis is one of the few Creedence songs that (If you have the full version) had a psychadellic sound. They never did it, but it was working for other bands so they decided to try it. Great song
• John from Kalamazoo, KyI know this wans't written by John Fogerty, but don't you think he could write a song as good as this. I know he wrote awesone songs, but he could have written a song that was the band's first hit
  
• Johnny from Los Angeles, CaJoel, that is because it was made in 1956 by Dale Hawkins. Not an original creedence clearwater song. Heard it through the grapevine, and this song are Jam Sessions. Because of this, 'Grapvine is rarely played on the radio.
• Gary from Seattle, WaActually this is not the only song not written by John Fogerty: There were three:
  Grapevine
  Suzie Q
  and I Put A Spell On You.
  
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• Matt from Monroe, LaThis song was used in the cult classic "Apocolypse Now:Redux".
• Ragnar from Ojai, CaDuring one of the solos, Fogerty actually uses Wolf's riff from smokestack lighning
• Annabelle from Eugene, OrThere's a snack cake known as the Susie Q. Maybe this song made these snack cakes popular!
• Joel from Chicago, IlThe comment about Creedence not playing this live after the Stones' released their version doesn't make any sense. The Stones' version was off their 12x5 album, release in 1964. CCR didn't release theirs until 1968. If I'm not mistaken, CCR was formed in 1967. Unless I'm missing something, somebody didn't check the facts correctly.
• Tiga from Mount Carmel, PaUsed in the made-for-tv Disney movie, apropriately titled 'susie q'. The movie was about a ghost.
• Brandon from Seattle, WaThis song is heavily influenced by Howlin' Wolf's "Smokestack Lightning", similarly George Thorogood's "Bad to the Bone" is a strong reminiscent of Muddy Waters' "Hoochie Coochie Man".
• Brett from Edmonton, CanadaThe Rolling Stones' version was called "Suzie Q".

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