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The Story of 'Runaround Sue'

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Marc Myers
Jan 13, 2016
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People have long assumed that the "Sue" in Dion's Runaround Sue (1961) was named for his long-time wife, the woman Dion married more than 50 years ago. Turns out the song's namesake wasn't his spouse but a girl named Sue who worked at a Manhattan nightclub and didn't run around at all. This week in the Wall Street Journal (go here), I interview Dion for…

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