also on Laurie]. This is funny. “Runaround Sue” was written about a girl in my neighborhood. She was pretty loose. I didn’t know her too well, and she went out with the older guys. But somewhere down the line, we [Dion and Ernie Maresca] just wrote a ...
PoorDion DiMucci.In 1975 the singer-songwriter from the Bronx—still seeking to recapture the fame he achieved in the late 1950s and early ’60s with vocal group The Belmonts and as the solo artist who gave us “The Wanderer” and “Runaround Sue”—made the same mistake so many musician...