the corner office

On telly they're advertising yet another Creedence Clearwater Revival Best-of CD. Personally, the majority of drunken singalong CCR songs that make it onto the perennial best-ofs are songs I'm not partial to, probably due to overexposure. I'm a big fan of their drawn-out, swampy, bluesy tracks though, and Suzie Q is probably one of the famousest of those. Prodded by the advert, I found my copy of their eponymous debut (iirc) CD and track 3 is the full-length, 8 and a half minute version of Suzie Q.

About 1 minute into the track my mind started meandering, as is its wont, and I began to wonder whether anyone knew what the hell Suzie Q's real surname was.

A quick Google later and I am now educated. The song was written by Stan Lewis circa 1957, and Suzie Q's real name was Susan Lewis:

And she was hot stuff, with a wiggly walk and cutie-pie talk that made Lewis' world. Suzie Q was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen. Suzie Q was 2 years old, his little daughter.

Now that, I wasn't expecting. You learn something new every day.

And on that note, I'm off to do the dishes and irritate Ronwen with the most off-key rendition of "I Put A Spell on Yew" that I can muster.