[1][2] With its happy arrangement and multi tracking of a harmonica, Cash Box said that it could be a big record and gave it a B+.
The B side "Echo" was given a C+ with the review saying that the electronic trickery used in "Charmaine" was employed by Lee here in this snappy Affair.
Ethelyn Sexton the music editor for the Lansing State Journal speculated that the solo effects by Lee with the accordion were the first to be used in this fashion.
[5] In addition to being a hit and selling 140,000 copies in Chicago, it was used by a California disk jockey as the theme song on the radio show seven days a week.
[6] In July 1957, Jerry Blaine of Jubilee Records was quoted in Cash Box as saying "We've got nothing but hits" and Lee's single was among the ones he mentioned.