These demos led to the four musicians being signed to Columbia — Scaggs's label — as the nucleus of the group Toto.

"Miss Sun" was never featured on an original Toto album — the demo track was released on Toto XX in 1998 — but in 1980 Scaggs cut the song with Bill Schnee producing and with Hungate, Lukather, Paich, and Porcaro providing backing.

Dalbello chanced to be in Los Angeles and was invited to replicate her vocal contribution to the original demo.

which would punctuate his career as a regular album artist, his subsequent releases being spaced several years apart.

The Average White Band had cut the song a few months earlier for their 1980 album Shine (produced by David Foster) but it was left off the initial release and not added until years later as a bonus track.