Wake Up Little Susie

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"Wake Up Little Susie" was a popular song from the 1950s.

It was written by Felice and Boudleaux Bryant and published in 1957.

The song is best known in a recording by The Everly Brothers, issued by Cadence Records as catalog number 1337. The song reached #1 on the Billboard Pop and Country charts and the Cash Box Best Selling Record charts, despite having been banned from Boston radio stations for its supposedly suggestive lyrics. [1] It got to #2 on the United Kingdom song charts.

[edit] Song Premise

The song is sung in the point of view of a high school boy to his girlfriend, Susie. In the song the two of them went out on a date to a drive-in movie theater, only to fall asleep during the movie and not wake up until 4 o'clock in the morning, and singing of the worries they have on how (mostly) her parents and their friends will react to this gaffe.

Although, as mentioned above, it was banned in Boston, the song truly does not speak of Susie and her boyfriend having sex; only that everyone they know will possibly think they did (or something close to it, which was still taboo during the era) because they were out way way too late.

Many younger people hearing the song might not understand the premise, as nowadays, although staying out THAT late is probably not commonplace today either, what the song suggests they might have done that kept them out later then they expected is.