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due to thinking of his lover. On the original hit single version, the track begins with Lewis singing "I couldn't sleep at all last night", and it appears this way on most oldies compilations. However, on some releases the song has a prelude, where Lewis sings "Baby...Baby...you did something to me",
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followed by a musical cue into the first verse. Lewis usually included this prelude when he performed the song live. According to several sources, the personnel on the original hit recording included guitarist
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magazine ranked the song as the 27th biggest song of all time that charted on the
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But "Tossin' And Turnin'"... frantic and half-drunk hard-R&B pound...
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This article is about the 1960 song. For other uses, see
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in the fall of 1960. The record was released on the
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