| "Suspicion" | ||||
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| Single byTerry Stafford | ||||
| from the album Suspicion! | ||||
| B-side | "Judy" | |||
| Released | February 1964 | |||
| Recorded | May 2, 1962 ("Suspicion"); late 1963 ("Judy") | |||
| Genre | Pop,rock and roll | |||
| Length | 2:27 | |||
| Label | CrusaderC 101 | |||
| Songwriters | Doc Pomus,Mort Shuman | |||
| Producer | John Fisher | |||
| Terry Stafford singles chronology | ||||
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| "Suspicion" | ||||
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| Single byElvis Presley | ||||
| from the albumPot Luck | ||||
| A-side |  "Kiss Me Quick" Suspicion | |||
| B-side | Suspicion "It Hurts Me" | |||
| Released | April 16, 1964 May 1964 | |||
| Recorded | March 19, 1962 | |||
| Genre | Pop | |||
| Length | 2:35 | |||
| Label | RCA Victor 447-0639
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| Songwriters | Doc Pomus,Mort Shuman | |||
| Elvis Presley singles chronology | ||||
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| "Suspicion" | ||||
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| Single byElvis Presley | ||||
| from the albumPot Luck | ||||
| A-side | "Kiss Me Quick"/ "Suspicion" | |||
| B-side | "Sentimental Me"/ "I Want You With Me" | |||
| Released | May 1964 | |||
| Recorded | March 19, 1962 | |||
| Genre | Pop | |||
| Length | 2:35 | |||
| Label | RCA Victor20277 | |||
| Songwriters | Doc Pomus,Mort Shuman | |||
| Elvis Presley singles chronology | ||||
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| "Suspicion" | ||||
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| Single byElvis Presley | ||||
from the album Elvis in Demand | ||||
| B-side | "It's a Long Lonely Highway" | |||
| Released | November 26, 1976 | |||
| Recorded | March 9, 1962 | |||
| Genre | Pop | |||
| Length | 2:35 Spanish | |||
| Label | RCA Victor2768 | |||
| Songwriters | Doc Pomus,Mort Shuman | |||
| Elvis Presley singles chronology | ||||
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"Suspicion" is a 1962 song originally recorded byElvis Presley and written byDoc Pomus andMort Shuman. It became a major hit in 1964 forTerry Stafford, an Elvis Presley sound-alike.
One of 25 songs written by Pomus and Shuman for Elvis Presley, "Suspicion" was recorded by Presley on March 19, 1962, inStudio B ofRCA'sNashville studio and issued on Presley's albumPot Luck (released on June 15, 1962). By the time the Terry Stafford single reached the top ten of theBillboard Hot 100 in April 1964, the Presley original was given a US single release with "Kiss Me Quick" as theflip. However, it was "Kiss Me Quick" that became the favored side, reaching No. 34 nationally. Presley's "Suspicion" peaked at No. 103 and was published by Elvis Presley Music, Inc.[1]
InAustralia, "Kiss Me Quick" and "Suspicion" appeared on the chart as adouble A-side hit with a No. 56 peak. The actual format for this Australian release was a four-trackEP entitledElvis Sings Kiss Me Quick, which featured "Kiss Me Quick" and "Suspicion" as A-side tracks with a B-side composed of "Sentimental Me" and "I Want You With Me". "Suspicion" was also issued as a single in several European countries to vie with the Terry Stafford version. It peaked at #5 on the New Zealand Lever Hit Parade chart.[2] The Presley version charted in the Netherlands and Dutch-speaking Belgium, with respective peaks of No. 9 and No. 6. In Norway, the chart peak was No. 9, and in Denmark No. 3;[3] in its European single release, "Suspicion" featured "It Hurts Me" as the B-side. More than a decade later, "Suspicion" would afford Presley a Top Ten hit in the UK, where its December 1976 single release rose to a peak of No. 9 on the chart dated February 5, 1977.
After an unsuccessful affiliation withA&M Records, Terry Stafford cut ademo of "Suspicion" at the Los Angeles studio of Bob Summers. Summers, best known as the producer of the 1959Larry Hall hit "Sandy", played all the instruments on the demo. Stafford and Stafford's manager pitched the demo to record companies in the Los Angeles area and also to local radio stations, includingKFWB, wheredisc jockey Gene Weed was impressed enough to take it next door to the headquarters of the newly formed Crusader Records. John Fisher, the president of Crusader, spent several hours remastering the demo, with the resultant track becoming the second single released on Crusader.[4] The arrangement included rhythmic backing accompaniment with anOndioline, an idiosyncratic French-built electronic keyboard.[5]
After breaking out inSan Bernardino, California in January 1964, "Suspicion" made its top-tier market breakthrough in Los Angeles in February 1964. The following month, it peaked at respectively number 2 and number 4 on thehit parades of radio stationsKRLA and KFWB[6] and then quickly spread east, hitting number 1 onWLS in Chicago for most of April.[7] Nationally "Suspicion" rose from No. 7 to No. 6 on theBillboard Hot 100 dated April 4, 1964, when the chart's top five hits were all bythe Beatles. "Suspicion" broke the Beatles' monopoly on the top five spots on the chart by rising to No. 3, its peak position, the next week.[8] Stafford's "Suspicion" reached No. 31 in theUK Singles Chart,[9] and also No. 3 in Canada.[10]
"Suspicion" first became aC&W chart hit in 1971 via a remake byBobby G. Rice which reached No. 33 C&W, with the track being included on Rice's debut albumHit After Hit.
In 1988 "Suspicion" charted forRonnie McDowell whose version, taken from McDowell'sI'm Still Missing You album, reached No. 27 C&W.[11]
In 1964,Hong Kong singerRebecca Pan covered '"Suspicion" on her LP albumI Love You, released by Diamond Records.
In 2005,Bahamian singer-composer Diana Hamilton covered '"Suspicion" on her LP albumA Bahamian in Paris, in collaboration with Eric Henri-Gréard, songwriter Florian Lacour, and produced by Patrick Rouchon.
A maniacal version of the song was recorded byVivian Stanshall, and produced byKeith Moon.
"Suspicion" has also been covered byJimmy London,Millicent Martin,Larry Marshall andDelroy Wilson.
In a 2002 interview with journalistMick Brown,record producerPhil Spector claimed he wrote and/or produced "Suspicion", but did not receive credit: "I made 'Suspicion' for Terry Stafford -- I didn't get any credit or any money. I didn't care. I just loved making records."[12]
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