The Auctioneer

Leroy Van Dyke | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 5, 1994)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Bear Family
• ASIN: B000001AZY
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #176,108 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Auctioneer

2. I Fell in Love with a Pony Tail

3. Leather Jacket

4. I'm Movin' On

5. My Good Mind (Went Bad on Me)

6. Heartbreak Cannonball

7. Chicken Shack Boogie

8. One Heart

9. Poor Boy

10. What This Old World Needs

11. Everytime I Ask My Heart

12. The Pocketbook Song

13. Down at the South End of Town

14. Honky Tonk Song

15. One Heart [Version]

Editorial Reviews

Leroy's big crossover hit Auctioneer made this onetime livestock auctioneer a star in 1957. The original version joins the rest of his Dot recordings on this CD, including Chicken Shack Boogie; Heartbreak Cannonball; Leather Jacket , and 11 more. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Decent Compilation - But Not Essential, July 14, 2011

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AvidOldiesCollector (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Auctioneer (Audio CD)

... unless, of course, you're a devoted fan of this Country entertainer from Spring Fork, Missouri (born October 4, 1929) who burst onto the scene in 1957 at age 28 with Auctioneer, a # 9 Country and # 19 Pop Top 100 that January on Dot 15503 b/w I Fell In Love with A Pony-Tail. The thing is, he wouldn't see another hit single until late 1961 with Walk On By, and by that time he was with Mercury Records.

What this release from Bear Family does is pull together the contents of the LP Dot issued in March 1966 (Dot DLP-3693), long after he had left the label for Mercury, followed by Warner Brothers (where he was when the Dot album was issued), then Kapp, Decca and finally ABC/Dot to complete the circle. Tracks 1 to 8, 11 and 12 are from that Dot album, while 9,10, 13 and 15 were sides he had recorded there but never had released until this Bear CD came along.

The versions of Auctioneer and I Fell In Love With A Pony Tail are the same ones that Dot released as that single back in 1957. The sound quality is excellent and, as I said above, if you are a devoted fan of Leroy Van Dyke's music (he registered 19 hit singles on the Country charts to 1977, three of which crossed over to the Pop charts), then this is a 5-star release.

2 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars true classics, February 27, 2000

By 

larry d gransee jr (tomah wi usa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Auctioneer (Audio CD)

for the true classic country lover.no collection is complete without this one