[6] The recording featured The Moonglows on backing vocals, Willie Dixon on bass, Jody Williams along with Bo Diddley on guitar, Clifton James on drums, Jerome Green playing the maracas, and Little Willie Smith on harmonica.

[17] The song soon gained interest and became a regional hit, with the band promoting it in May, on the TV show Where the Action Is, in a mimed segment filmed on a California beach.

[14][20][21] Two Australian bands, The Twilights, and Mike Furber and the Bowery Boys, covered the song, again in 1966.

A cover by blues rock band The Fabulous Thunderbirds appeared on their 1982 album T-Bird Rhythm.

Indianapolis post-punk electronic band Last Four (4) Digits covered the song on a local sampler Red Snerts,[23] released in 1981.