Fact #182978
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Dale Hawkins records Susie-Q in the studio of Radio KWKH Shreveport, Louisiana, USA, with James Burton playing guitar. Although widely considered a Hawkins original, the song is clearly inspired by The Clovers 1954 hit I've Got My Eyes On You.
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Dale Hawkins : We just had to have something different. Radio Station KWKH was the only place in town that had a good mono tape machine, so we cut it there with Bob Sullivan, an engineer who was from our part of the country and understood. We only had an hour because we had to do it in between the time that they would switch radio towers.
(Source : Interview with Michael Hurtt, Mojo, 2007)
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(Source : Interview with Michael Hurtt, Mojo, 2007)