Settling in Montgomery, Alabama, Mizell sang on local radio, where one of the presenters nicknamed him 'Hank', after the country singer Hank Williams.
By this time, Mizell was married to Rosemary, with four children (including David Alan, John Mark and William Jr.), and he finally gave up music and became a preacher for the Church of Christ.
When the record was played on BBC TV's flagship pop music show Top of the Pops in April 1976, host Tony Blackburn announced they could not find Mizell, and so the dance group Pan's People dressed in khaki blouses, shorts and pith helmets, danced along to the record with several extras in animal costumes representing the animals mentioned in the song (e.g., "a chimp and a monkey doing the Suzy-Q").
[6] Having been reported previously in the Dooley's Diary section of the September 15, 1979 issue of Music Week that Mizell was to sign a long-term contract with Hammer Records, [7] it now looked like a certainty.
The group, Hank Mizell & The Rock'n Rhythm Boys were rehearsing and writing material for their first Hammer release.
This was eventually re-released in 1999 on the German Repertoire label on CD (REP 4778-WG), with three bonus tracks.