DESCRIPTION: Released: September 1961 Genre: Doo wop, Pop Length: 2:42 Writers: Dion DiMucci and Ernie Maresca
"Runaround Sue" originally sung by Dion and del satins, is a pop song, a U.S. number one hit in 1961. The song was number 342 on the Rolling Stone list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". It tells the story of an unfaithful lover.