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CMT REWIND: Leroy Van Dyke’s “Walk On By” Achieves 19 Weeks On Top Of The Country Charts
Alongside Loretta Lynn, Marty Robbins, and Faron Young, and more, Leroy Van Dyke also has an impressive '60s era country hit Imagine a song so popular that, as a No. 1 hit, it equals the number of combined weeks that Patsy Cline’s “I Fall To Pieces,” Faron Young’s...
Leroy Van Dyke on His Two Career-Defining Hits, ‘The Auctioneer’ and ‘Walk On By’
Though Leroy Van Dyke's defining hits "The Auctioneer" (1956) and "Walk On By" (1961) came just five years apart, they shook up the charts at two very different times in country music history. Up-tempo honky tonk reigned supreme in the '50s, with the likes...
Leroy Van Dyke, Country Music Legend
Leroy Van Dyke, singer of the 19-week No. 1 “Walk On By,” joins the show from his home in Sedalia, Mo. The 91-year-old country music legend also cut the million-seller “The Auctioneer” in 1957, which accentuated his agriculture background and education from the...
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