Shame on you, Rick Fielding, for not remembering Janis Ian's "At Seventeen", which was actually a much bigger hit than "Society's Child", and must be one of the most depressing songs ever to hit #1(at least without someone actually dying in it)..As for Suzanne Vega, "Tom's Diner" became just as big a hit as "Luka" after two British DJ's put a beat track underneath the a capella track--And, though she had only those two hits in the US, "Luka" was her fourth UK hit--her sixth and last being, "In My Book of Dreams" which is a favorite of mine--

As to your allegedly difficult questions, the answers are :Harold Dorman, back in 1960, though both Johnny Rivers and Ronnie Dove covered it--I assume that you mean the Bruce Channel "Hey, Baby" and not either the Ted Nugent one, or the one by the Buckinghams--"Shout, Shout" was Dion Dimucci's good friend, songwriter Ernie Maresca, and Ma Belle Amie was the Tee Set, part of the little remembered "Dutch Invasion"--