Episode 88: "World Most Famous Auctioneer", Leroy Van Dyke
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Today on the Mike McGavel Jones Show, Mike sits down with Leroy Van Dyke. Leroy was catapulted into country music fame in 1956 with his composition "The Auctioneer", co-written with...
show moreIn his 50 years-plus career, Van Dyke has recorded more than 500 songs, dozens of them making the charts. His record of "Walk On By" (1961) was named by Billboard magazine in 1994 as the biggest country single of all time, based on sales, plays, and weeks in the charts. It stayed at number one in the U.S. country chart for 19 weeks, and in all, charted for 42 weeks, also reaching number five on the pop listings. It sold more than 1.5 million copies.
He is a member of the National Auctioneers Association Hall of Fame, is active in many music industry organizations, and as a sideline, raises premium quality Arabian mules.
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