"'I Sold My Heart to the Junkman'" is a 1946 recording by The Basin Street Boys featuring Ormonde Wilson, written by Leon René,[1] under the songwriting pseudonym of Jimmie Thomas.
In 1962, the Chicago-based girl group the Starlets were riding high with their top forty single, "Better Tell Him No".
[2] After the Blue-Belles made their first television appearance on American Bandstand in April 1962, the popularity of the song increased and became a Top 20 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 and R&B charts.
[6] Meanwhile, the newly christened Patti LaBelle and the Blue Belles went on to national fame that year with their hit, "Down the Aisle (The Wedding Song)".
[13] Despite gaining airplay on the BBC Light Programme, it did not match her earlier UK Singles Chart appearance with "Never on Sunday".