It was released in September 1972 as the second single from his second album Of a Simple Man.

The song was Lobo's highest-charting hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, where it spent two weeks at No.

1 on the Easy Listening chart, where it had a one-week stay at that top spot in December 1972.

When released in the United Kingdom in 1972, the song failed to reach the UK Singles Chart; however, a re-release of the single in 1974, on the UK record label, peaked at No.

[5] The song also topped the music charts in at least seven nations, including Australia (Kent Music Report, two weeks), Canada (RPM Magazine, one week), and Germany (Media Control Charts, 13 weeks in 1973–1974).