When Marie would join Cherie on stage to sing the encores, the audience would go wild.

[8] The idea paid off because Messin' with the Boys received more radio play than Beauty's Only Skin Deep, and their song "Since You Been Gone" made it to 95 on US charts.

[10] This makes Messin' with the Boys Cherie Currie's most successful solo album.

Cherie duetted with that group's lead singer, Bobby Kimball, and wrote the additional lyrics in the second verse.

In 1988, singer Tone Norum covered Cherie and Marie Currie's song "This Time".