Chuck Negron performed the lead vocal on this track.

Taken as the first single from their 1971 album, Harmony, the song peaked at number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in December 1971, becoming the band's seventh top-ten hit.

[1] It was Three Dog Night's first record to top the U.S. easy listening chart.

According to the Karen Carpenter biography Little Girl Blue by Randy L. Schmidt, Williams originally intended the song for the Carpenters, who were in the middle of a string of hits with their own brand of "old fashioned love songs", including two of Williams' own compositions, "We've Only Just Begun" and "Rainy Days and Mondays".

Carpenters never recorded the song, but did perform it live on television with Carol Burnett a few months later.