Originally intended for King Floyd, instead Tex recorded it himself in the late 1960s, but did not release it at that time.
He decided to re-record it in late 1971 and released it as the B-side of "A Mother's Prayer", the first single from his 1972 album "I Gotcha".
This would result in Tex having his first major hit in five years as "I Gotcha" eventually peaked at Number 1 on the R&B chart and Number 2 on the Pop chart for two weeks, behind "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" by Roberta Flack[4] and would sell around three million copies.
A shorter version of the song appears in trailers for Kermit's Swamp Years.
In 1991, Australian rock singer Jimmy Barnes recorded and released "I Gotcha" as the first single from his fifth studio album, Soul Deep.