[3] In February 1981, it was released in the United States and Canada under the title "Morning Train (Nine to Five)" to avoid confusion with Dolly Parton's recent hit "9 to 5".

[6] The music video was filmed on the Bluebell Railway, a heritage line running between East and West Sussex in England.

Easton re-recorded the song ("El Primer Tren") for her Spanish-language album Todo Me Recuerda a Tí, in 1983 for the Latin markets.

[citation needed] Swedish-born Norwegian singer Elisabeth Andreassen covered the song in Swedish, as "Han pendlar varje dag" ("He commutes every day") with the new lyrics by Olle Bergman, on her 1981 album Angel of the Morning.

[27] Bulgarian-French megastar in Europe singer Sylvie Vartan covered the song with altered lyrics as "L'amour c'est comme une cigarette" in 1981.

Idols South Africa winner Anke Pietrangeli covered the song on her album Tribute to the Great Female Vocalists in 2009.

Two of the film's protagonists played by Scott Mechlowicz and Jacob Pitts enter a fictional British pub called the Fiesty Goat in London, unaware that it is a private Manchester United football supporters' bar.