[4] Gallery covered it in 1972 as the second of three singles off their Nice to Be with You album[5] and the follow-up release to their title track.
[6] Mac Davis's original had been released as a single nearly two years earlier and made a minor dent in the pop charts (US #117).
[8] In a 2017 interview, Davis said the song was inspired while he was in England at the home of Lulu and Maurice Gibb, who were married at that time:[8] I went to the kitchen and fixed myself a drink at the party, and there were a bunch of hippie types and they were gonna have a séance.
Helen Reddy's version was the first commercial recording of the song, and it was featured as the B-side of her first American success, "I Don't Know How to Love Him," which became a hit in February 1971.
Thomas, Liza Minnelli, Perry Como, Louis Jordan, Lee Towers, Wayne Newton, Kenny Rogers, Glen Campbell, Lynn Anderson and The Statler Brothers.