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<p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a2/Suspicion_-_Terry_Stafford.jpeg" height="223" width="226"></p><p><br></p><p>"<strong>Suspicion</strong>" is a 1962 song originally recorded by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_Presley" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Elvis Presley</a> and written by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_Pomus" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Doc Pomus</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mort_Shuman" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mort Shuman</a>. It became a major hit in 1964 for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Stafford" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Terry Stafford</a>, an Elvis Presley sound-alike.</p><h2>Elvis Presley version</h2><p>One of 25 songs written by Pomus and Shuman for Elvis Presley, "Suspicion" was recorded by Presley on March 19, 1962, in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCA_Studio_B" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Studio B</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCA_Victor" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">RCA</a>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashville,_Tennessee" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Nashville</a> studio and issued on Presley's album <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pot_Luck_(Elvis_Presley_album)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Pot Luck</em></a> (released on June 15, 1962). By the time the Terry Stafford single reached the top ten of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Hot_100" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Billboard</em> Hot 100</a> in April 1964, the Presley original was given a US single release with "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss_Me_Quick_(Elvis_Presley_song)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Kiss Me Quick</a>" as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-side_and_B-side" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">flip</a>. 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.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspicion_(Terry_Stafford_song)#cite_note-1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[1]</a></p><p>In <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Australia</a>, "Kiss Me Quick" and "Suspicion" appeared on the chart as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-side_and_B-side#Double_A-side" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">double A-side hit</a> with a No. 56 peak. The actual format for this Australian release was a four-track <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_play" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">EP</a> entitled <em>Elvis Sings Kiss Me Quick</em>, which featured "Kiss Me Quick" and "Suspicion" as A-side tracks with a B-side composed of "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentimental_Me" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sentimental Me</a>" and "I Want You With Me". "Suspicion" was also issued as a single in several European countries to vie with the Terry Stafford version. 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;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspicion_(Terry_Stafford_song)#cite_note-2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[2]</a> in its European single release, "Suspicion" featured "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Hurts_Me" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">It Hurts Me</a>" 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.</p><h2>Terry Stafford version</h2><p>After an unsuccessful affiliation with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%26M_Records" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A&amp;M Records</a>, Terry Stafford cut a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demo_(music)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">demo</a> of "Suspicion" at the Los Angeles studio of Bob Summers. Summers, best known as the producer of the 1959 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Hall_(singer)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Larry Hall</a> 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, including <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KFWB" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">KFWB</a>, where <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_personality" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">disc jockey</a> 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.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspicion_(Terry_Stafford_song)#cite_note-3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[3]</a> The arrangement included rhythmic backing accompaniment with an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ondioline" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ondioline</a>, an idiosyncratic French-built electronic keyboard.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspicion_(Terry_Stafford_song)#cite_note-4" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[4]</a></p><p>After breaking out in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Bernardino,_California" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">San Bernardino, California</a> 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 the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hit_parade" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">hit parades</a> of radio stations <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KRLA" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">KRLA</a> and KFWB<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspicion_(Terry_Stafford_song)#cite_note-5" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[5]</a> and then quickly spread east, hitting number 1 on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WLS_(AM)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">WLS</a> in Chicago for most of April.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspicion_(Terry_Stafford_song)#cite_note-6" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[6]</a> Nationally "Suspicion" rose from No. 7 to No. 6 on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Hot_100" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Billboard</em> Hot 100</a> dated April 4, 1964, when the chart's top five hits were all by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">the Beatles</a>. "Suspicion" broke the Beatles' monopoly on the top five spots on the chart by rising to No. 3, its peak position, the next week.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspicion_(Terry_Stafford_song)#cite_note-7" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[7]</a> Stafford's "Suspicion" reached No. 31 in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_Singles_Chart" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">UK Singles Chart</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspicion_(Terry_Stafford_song)#cite_note-8" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[8]</a> and also No. 3 in Canada.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspicion_(Terry_Stafford_song)#cite_note-9" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[9]</a></p><h2><br></h2>