Runaround Sue

by Dion

Runaround Sue cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: November 1961
  • Label: Laurie
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 31:20
  • Community rating: 3.77/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Released by Laurie Records, 'Runaround Sue' served as Dion DiMucci's second solo album following his departure from the Belmonts. Driven by the commercially dominant title track, the record successfully transitioned his doo-wop vocal style into the emerging Brill Building pop-rock paradigm.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, vocal-group, jangly, male-vocalist, accessible

Tracklist

  1. Runaround Sue (2:51)
  2. Somebody Nobody Wants (2:45)
  3. Dream Lover (2:18)
  4. Life Is But A Dream (2:35)
  5. The Wanderer (2:48)
  6. Runaway Girl (2:27)
  7. The Majestic (2:42)
  8. Little Star (2:42)
  9. Lonely World (2:09)
  10. In The Still Of The Night (2:49)
  11. Kansas City (2:41)
  12. Take Good Care Of My Baby (2:26)

Credits

  • Dion - primary artist
  • Walter Rich - design [cover]
  • George Werthner - liner notes
  • Michael Levin - photography by
  • Dion DiMucci - written-by
  • Ernie Maresca - written-by
  • George Goehring - written-by
  • Sylvia Dee - written-by
  • Bobby Darin - written-by
  • Raul Cita - written-by
  • Sam Weiss - written-by
  • Barbara Baer - written-by
  • Eliot Greenberg - written-by
  • Robert Schwartz - written-by
  • Brenda Lee Jones - written-by
  • Welton Young - written-by
  • Arthur Venosa - written-by
  • Vito Picone - written-by
  • Fred Parris - written-by
  • Leiber & Stoller - written-by
  • Goffin And King - written-by

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