Gary US Bonds - Quarter To Three download song

From Wikipedia: The song's melody is very similar to "Quarter to Three", a song released by Gary U.S. Bonds a few months prior to the release of "Runaround Sue."

Anyone notice how similar this sounds to Runaround Sue by Dion? I think that Dion copied this beat because this came out months earlier.

I have the same console player. It’s a magnavox with a microsomic turntable right?

Dear Future Husband Dance With Me Tonight at Quarter To Three with a Run Around Sue

That was a very good year for me. I was 15 and in love with the world. I jammed to this for sure.

one of the most unusual sounds i've ever heard on any recording

First heard this on WIBG 99 AM in Philadelphia. This was the theme song of one of their top jocks, Hy Lit.

I was 17 when this song came out.  As the British say: I was gob-smacked.  Then I saw kids dancing to it on American Bandstand --- and they weren't touching each other or holding hands. Both partners just kind of danced on their own to the song.  Other than the Twist, this was the first time people danced not holding one another.  It was a true turning point in the history of popular music.  I'd like to meet Bonds and let him know what a historic change he ushered in.

This was not a deliberate recording. It was recorded at a party and they thought it was so good that they would release IT instead of canned.

Had my new '61 Super Stock Ford, a blond girlfriend whose name I can' t remember and rockin out to Quarter to Three.  Remember it well.  Well, sorta well anyway.

This song was such a classic they were still playing it a lot in '62!!!

I remember this was a really really big hit.

Bonds is awesome..enjoyed his music back when I was a small child.

I used to dance to this when I was about 14 back in 61 we were doing the pony then

I saw Gary standing at an elevator on a recent cruise and didn't realize it was him until he had left. I had an album to be signed in my cabin a few feet away. You would cry too if it happened to you

Where is all the fun in music hiding, these days ?

56Johnny, All his hits were recorded under less than perfect circumstances.