[4] The pair formed Cheapskate Records, which Frank wanted to use to prove that any independent label, with the right promotion and distribution, could release a hit single.

By the time it was re-released on Pye Records at the beginning of 1980,[6] the song was at the end of its airplay run and subsequently failed to chart.

The cover of Slade's "Nobody's Fool" was originally to be released as a single, but the idea was scrapped once more material had been recorded.

All were also previously unreleased, except "Burning in the Heat of Love", which surfaced in 1985 on the UK/German various artists compilation Metal Killers Kollection, where it was credited to Jim Lea rather than the Dummies.

"Poland" is a reworking of Slade's "Lemme Love into Ya", and had first surfaced in 1982 as a Jim Lea single under the pseudonym Greenfields of Tong.

[14] "The Minute I Lost Control" was the third song to be specifically written by Holder and Lea for the Dummies, but not released at the time.