It appeared on his 1972 album Beautiful Sunday and was produced by Larry Page and arranged by Boone.

[5] Robin Carmody of Freaky Trigger praised the song for its "timelessly, wonderfully obvious chord sequence" and euphoric tone, "without any hint that driving to and from your day's pleasure and relaxation might even contain anything sexual, let alone anything depressing, tedious and ugly.

[6] The song also made the charts in New Zealand (gold record), France, Japan, South Africa, Mexico, and Germany, where it held the No.

[8] Boone re-released the song in Japan in 1976; it topped the Oricon Singles Chart from 22 March to 28 June.

The song appears in the HBO Max series The Righteous Gemstones, in the second season's ninth episode, "I Will Tell of All Your Deeds".