Rate The Version: Robin Luke - Susie Darlin'

I tend to avoid posting charting records, let alone big hit records like this #5 charting record. However, this is being posted as a compare and contrast to the remade version I have posted by Mike Curb. Here you can hear how Robin originally intended the song to sound. If i remember correctly, Robin recorded this on a reel to reel tape recorder in his living room in his apartment in Hawaii, adding his own overdubs one layer at a time. As my 45 is not in the greatest condition, audio for this track was dubbed from a Time Life cd that the song appears on (and it was checked multiple times against the 45 to make sure it was the exact same version). To dispell a rumor, this song was NOT written for his dying sister (who is actually alive and well in Columbia, Missouri), he simply put her name on it to keep himself out of trouble with the girls at his highschool (I'm sure every single one of them wanted their name on the record, and would be mad if it wasn't, so he added none of them, to keep the playing field fair). Robin has a website where he can be reached, as well, however I have never tried to contact him. You can hear great records like this one live every night on www.topshelfoldies.org!

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• Robin
• Luke
• Susie
• Darlin'
• Darling
• Suzie
• 1958
• Original
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• Mike
• Curb
• Topshelf
• Oldies

[dinoderoble]

SELL IT TO ME!!!!!

[TopshelfTom]

@dinoderoble Noooooooo dean!!! LOL

[drrgperrin]

@dinoderoble Classic 45s has two for sale at reasonable prices.

[TopshelfTom]

@drrgperrin he wants my promo copy, not a stock copy.

[panhead58ful]

no offense to Mike Curb or Tommy Roe but ya'll can't touch this

[cutarescualex]

I wonder how is it possible to listen this song dozens of times and never get bored of it? It's just wonderful...

[crazyromanian1]

@phillipbutler5 Hope he got some cash. Hopefully he didn't get ripped off too bad in the 50's with this hit.

[skaha77]

It's what we were listening to in Grade Eight :)

[skaha77]

Hey SUSAN.. Teenager who works at McDonalds in a Vancouver Suburb.. Hope you played this.. Hope you liked it.

- the geezer who you served at 9 a.m. Dec 14th

[mollymitch1]

@panhead58ful True

[kafilover]

a current hit song by foster the people...all the other kicks...sounds very similar to this song by Robin luke...

similar beat with some extra bass;;;; same chords....

[phillipbutler5]

I met Robin Luke at Missouri State University (then, Southwest MO State) in 1991. I was an MBA grad student, and he the head professor of the Marketing Dept. Some firm was running a TV ad for a collection of oldies but goodies. They used "Susie Darlin" without his permission. He brought a lawsuit against them. I never heard how the suit came out, but still cherish my memories of time spent with Robin Luke. Phillip Butler

[sukomsanru]

One of my favorite. Thanks for uploading.

[1947musiclover]

Thank you, TopshelfTom! 53 years later and I never get tired of hearing this song! Gotta see what else you have, now that I've come across your songs!  Gotta get my Time Life Rock 'n Roll Era CDs out again and listen to them before I start listening to Christmas music.