The single was released in April 1979, and reached number 14 on June 23 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

[1] It was nominated for a Grammy Award for Song of the Year, but lost out to the Doobie Brothers' own "What a Fool Believes".

[3] In their book Inside the Hits, authors Wayne Wadhams, David Nathan, and Susan Lindsay describe the tempo as a "medium shuffle".

[6] The New Rolling Stone Album Guide praises McDonald's "suave vocal mastery" on the song.

"[9] Billboard described the song as an "amalgam of rock and jazz styles with swaying rhythms and catchy melodies.

"[9] Cash Box said that it utilizes the band's "identifiable bass -conga rhythm sound" and has a "nice organ-guitar fade-in.