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