[1] "Down By the Lazy River" was released on January 15, 1972 and appeared on the band's 1972 album, Phase III.

4 on the Billboard Hot 100 on March 4, 1972, and spent two weeks at No.

36 on Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1972.

[12] The song, like almost all of the Osmonds' discography,[14] was largely left out of recurrent rotation as radio stations no longer play the record; of all of the Osmonds' songs, "Down by the Lazy River" fared the worst relative to its popularity at the time.

[15] ^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.