"Flip, Flop and Fly" has an arrangement similar to Big Joe Turner's 1954 number 1 R&B chart hit "Shake, Rattle and Roll".

[2] Music critic Cub Koda suggests that "leftover verses [from the 'Shake, Rattle and Roll' recording session] were then recycled into Turner's follow-up hit, 'Flip, Flop and Fly.

"Flip, Flop and Fly" reached number 2 on Billboard magazine's R&B chart in 1955, less than one year after "Shake, Rattle and Roll".

In 1973, a rendition by the Canadian Downchild Blues Band reached number 35 on the RPM 100 singles chart.

[7] In 2000, a rendition by the American Ellis Hall, was used on the soundtrack of the 2000 animated comedy film, Chicken Run.