Fame wrote and recorded "Get Away" after being commissioned to write "a happy piece of music" as a jingle for an advertising campaign for National Benzole petrol.

[5] The song prominently features stabs of brass, described by music journalist Penny Valentine as "coming in at exactly the right time with the persistance of a French taxi driver blowing his horn".

[6] Baritone sax player Glen Hughes reportedly considered his one note contribution "his easiest buck in a recording studio".

[10][11] The single was released in the United States on the Imperial label, a subsidiary of Liberty, and reached number 70 on the Billboard Hot 100.

[13] Upon release, Norman Jopling and Peter Jones of Record Mirror praised the song's arrangement as "hustle-rhythm, fast-lyricked and with curious and compelling little brass-sax phrase".