The first session was recorded between 5 and 8 PM and it produced five songs featuring string arrangements.

After a 90-minute break, Martin was joined by a brass arrangement to record the remaining four songs.

Seven of the eight songs on this album appeared in the Martin & Lewis film, The Stooge.

Two years later, the songs from this 10-inch album would be combined with four newly popular songs recorded between 1951 and 1953 to create a full-length 12-inch album.

The 2005 Collectors' Choice reissue added four bonus songs recorded between 1949 and 1953 and was released with alternative cover artwork.