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wasn't the first song to set bid-calling to music, but it was the most successful.
, a real-life auctioneer, wrote and recorded the song as his first single for
, and in so doing scored a major crossover hit on the
and
charts. The arrangement is deceptively simple, consisting only of
on voice and acoustic guitar, and a session player on electric guitar. The flip side of the single,
found
balancing between
and teen-oriented music, which foreshadowed his coming experiments with
.
is an anthology of
's complete
recordings from 1956-1958, including the aforementioned songs. The material varies in style and quality as
tried to sell
as another
or
. There are
remakes of
songs (
);
a cover of
's
), and attempts to reprise the
formula (
) Despite the inclusion of several previously unreleased songs and one alternate take, the collection has only 15 tracks, which is brief by
's standards.
's anthology of
recordings,
, offers nearly twice as many songs for the same price. On the other hand, the original hit recording of
is hard to find on CD, and
is one place where it can be found. ~ Greg Adams