Wake Up Little Susie

"Wake Up Little Susie" is a popular song written by Felice and Boudleaux Bryant and published in 1957.

1 on the Billboard Pop chart and the Cash Box Best Selling Records chart, despite having been banned from Boston radio stations for lyrics that, at the time, were considered suggestive, according to a 1986 interview with Don Everly.

[3] "Wake Up Little Susie" also spent seven weeks atop the Billboard country chart[4] and got to No.

[6] The song is written from the point of view of a high school boy to his girlfriend, Susie.

Simon & Garfunkel have cited the Everly Brothers as strong influences on their own music.