 The recording of "Robbin' The Cradle" contained a number of styles and musical combinations.It combined an Italian pop singer playing an accordion à la Dick Contino, being backed with a basically country/rockabilly band augmented with a background Latino vocal group.Upon hearing Bellus perform the song in Chicago, NRC leased the master for the NRC label, and the song peaked at #25 on August 17, 1959 and stayed on the "Billboard" Hot 100 for 26 weeks, the most weeks for any Hot 100 entry all within the calendar year 1959.