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Dion : Runaround Sue was created at a neighborhood party. I used to hand out parts. Even if guys didn't know how to sing, I used to give 'em something simple. I used to give them like a mantra. And I had my guitar, and if they could follow the chords, I could get a song going for 45 minutes.
We were banging on cardboard boxes. We just had kind of a backbeat. And the vocals were on like the upbeat.
That's what Runaround Sue basically was. It was like a spontaneous kind of stream-of-consciousness song. But when I put it into a three and a half minute song, put some lyrics to it, put a bridge, we had a song. That's what it came out of.
When I heard the whole American set of drums, it just didn't have what it had at a party that I created it at in the Bronx. So I told the drummer to get off the drums. I think he played on - some of that was played on some tympani drums, with the canvases still on the drums. Then we had some tom-toms there for him.
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Dion : I recorded Runaround Sue with The Del-Satins and black musicians from the Apollo theater, Buddy Lucas on Sax, Sticks Evans on drums, Panama Francis on percussion, Teacho Wilshire on piano, Milt Hinton on bass, and Mickey “Guitar” Baker. ~ When Hollywood filmed this rendition (the promo film) they used all white actors playing musicians behind me, knowing the film wouldn't get played in the South at that time.
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We were banging on cardboard boxes. We just had kind of a backbeat. And the vocals were on like the upbeat.
That's what Runaround Sue basically was. It was like a spontaneous kind of stream-of-consciousness song. But when I put it into a three and a half minute song, put some lyrics to it, put a bridge, we had a song. That's what it came out of.
When I heard the whole American set of drums, it just didn't have what it had at a party that I created it at in the Bronx. So I told the drummer to get off the drums. I think he played on - some of that was played on some tympani drums, with the canvases still on the drums. Then we had some tom-toms there for him.
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Dion : I recorded Runaround Sue with The Del-Satins and black musicians from the Apollo theater, Buddy Lucas on Sax, Sticks Evans on drums, Panama Francis on percussion, Teacho Wilshire on piano, Milt Hinton on bass, and Mickey “Guitar” Baker. ~ When Hollywood filmed this rendition (the promo film) they used all white actors playing musicians behind me, knowing the film wouldn't get played in the South at that time.
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