The song peaked at #103 US Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 and #68 on the Cash Box charts, but more successfully reached #3 in Sweden.

A slightly different version of the single recording was later included in the 1996 posthumous Zappa album The Lost Episodes.

The B-side of the single "Ancient Armaments" is an edited live instrumental from the New York City Palladium on October 31, 1978.

Phonogram president Robert Sherwood disputed Zappa's version of the story, insisting that it was a marketing decision.

Zappa later created another record company, Barking Pumpkin, distributed by CBS, after ending his agreement with Phonogram.

But that's not all..." Record World called it "zany, funky, topical, rebellious and pure Zappa" and praised the keyboard playing and vocal performances.