Considered one of original lead singer Paul Williams' showcases, "Don't Look Back" was regularly employed as the closing number for Temptations live performances.
Written by Miracles members Smokey Robinson and Ronald White, (who also co-wrote the group's #1 Pop smash, "My Girl") the previous year, "Don't Look Back" is a reassurance to the tentative that finding true love is worth the heartbreak and failed relationships it takes to reach it.
"[citation needed] "Don't Look Back" was originally this single's A-side, but was passed over by the nation's DJs in favor of the Ruffin-led "My Baby", which had a much bigger pop success than this song, and placed on the B-side.
[citation needed] Both sides of the single would receive a second pressing and the tracks remixed, with the following statements added on: "Taken from the album #G 914 The Temptin' Temptations."
This album also contains songs like E'mma from Touré Kunda, 7 Seconds from Youssou N'Dour & Neneh Cherry, "Watermelon Man" from Mongo Santamaría, Oye Como Va From Santana, etc.
The pair played the song together that year on an episode of Saturday Night Live and a couple of times during Tosh's opening performance on the Rolling Stones US Tour 1978.
Dirk De Smet, the winner of the second series of the Belgian edition of X Factor musical competition made a remake of the song under the title "Walk and Don't Look Back" being his debut release after the win.