One-hit wonder Robin Luke

Talk about no-frills production for a song that made it to No.5 on the charts in 1958. Susie Darlin' was sung by 16-year-old Robin Luke of Los Angeles, backed by a guitar, a ukulele and in lieu of a drum, a box and an lp album cover plus two pens hit with a stick. Luke wrote the song at the beach, using the name of his little sister, Susie, so as not to mess himself up with the girls he had been flirting with at the time.

Later recordings failed to catch on, but Luke, though he was a temporary teenage hearthrob, also liked school and went on to earn two undergraduate degrees, two master's degrees and a doctorate. He became a marketing professor, teaching at Old Dominion, Southwest Missouri State and the University of the Virgin Islands.