[1] A friend of Euday Bowman known as "Raggedy Ed" declared his intention to open a pawn shop on 12th Street in Kansas City while the two were walking along it.

He returned to Texas briefly and tried to sell the piece to a company in Dallas; but he only had an offer of ten dollars for it and was told it really was not worth publishing.

Other notable performers of the song include Roy Clark, Barney Kessel, and Jack Teagarden.

The song is perhaps best known in the US and UK as the theme to The Joe Franklin Show;[7] the version most associated with the program was Big Tiny Little's 1959 recording from his album Honky Tonk Piano (Brunswick BL (7)54049).

[citation needed] Since 1999, a steel guitar version has been featured as background music on the US television cartoon series by Nickelodeon, SpongeBob SquarePants.