scored an Top Ten hit in 1956 with but 's next nine singles for flopped. It was the next, his third single of 1958, that finally scored. That was when ( 's parent label) assembled this, 's debut album, out of some of those singles sessions. You can hear the sound of a group and its enthusiastic singer looking for a hit, sometimes in the of (1957) or the 1956 B-side sometimes by remaking under another name, such as (1956), sometimes by tackling -like material such as (1958), sometimes by aping the smooth , as on the 1958 B-side and once by rewriting as the 1958 B-side Only the two hits were really memorable, but the album presented the sound of a major star-to-be in search of his sound. ~ William Ruhlmann