[citation needed] When Orlando and the other members of Dawn (Telma Hopkins and Joyce Vincent Wilson) were waiting in the lobby to go on at a Golden Globes award ceremony, Orlando spoke with Faye Dunaway and her then-husband, Peter Wolf, lead singer for The J. Geils Band.

To pass the time, the two began singing various R&B songs from the '60s, including Butler's "He Will Break Your Heart", which the couple recommended that the group record on an upcoming album.

Another track from the same 1975 album was adapted from an Italian hit by Giorgio Gaber from two years prior, entitled "Far Finta di Essere Sani," recorded in English as "Tomorrow's Got to be Sunny."

[19] The Walker Brothers also covered the track on their 1975 comeback album No Regrets under the original title "He Will Break Your Heart".

She included the song on The Great Pretender, an album of covers of early rock and roll hits.

Joe Tex made an answer song singing from the perspective of the other man entitled "I Will Never Break Your Heart".