Wake Up Little Susie

"Wake Up Little Susie" is a 1957 rock and roll song by Felice and Boudleaux Bryant, a number-one hit for the Everly Brothers. This page has the Wake Up Little Susie chords and a backing track you can slow down, speed up and transpose.

Who wrote "Wake Up Little Susie"

The husband-and-wife team Felice and Boudleaux Bryant wrote the music and the words, the story of a teenage couple who fall asleep at a drive-in movie and wake long after curfew. The Everly Brothers recorded it for Cadence, and in 1957 it topped the American pop chart; some radio stations banned it for its subject.

Recordings that made it a standard

• The Everly Brothers (Cadence, 1957).