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"Stumblin' In" is a song written by Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn, performed by Chris Norman and Suzi Quatro, taken from the Quatro album If You Knew Suzi....
The single peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1979. The song was Quatro's only U.S. Top 40 hit and Norman's lone U.S. charting effort apart from the band Smokie.
Namibian singer Nianell and South African singer Dozi recorded a version in 2009 on their cover duets album It Takes Two.
In 1979 Al Bano and Romina Power made a cover version in French under the title "Et je suis à toì." German singers Bernd Clüver and Marion Maerz recorded a German version in the same year under the title „Schau mal herein (die Tasse Kaffee)“.
Suzi Quatro’s one major American hit, “Stumblin’ In,” is a Chinnichap romantic duet about the start of a relationship. Chris Norman and Suzi Quatro adopt entirely normative pop music gender roles by seemingly emulating Sonny and Cher. Norman’s gravelly voice, though more conventionally musical than Sonny Bono’s, has a similar informality. Quatro, for her part, sings in her lower register and uses a vibrato reminiscent of Cher’s characteristic vocal style. The lyric places the female character in a position subordinate to the male by suggesting that she’s somewhat younger than he and that he is her guide in things romantic.
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