The album title was inspired by the bad press Nilsson and Lennon were getting at the time for being drunk and rowdy in Los Angeles.

[7] Among the many musicians on Pussy Cats are Ringo Starr, Keith Moon and Jim Keltner, who all play drums on the closing track, "Rock Around the Clock".

Half of the album's original ten tracks were covers while the rest were written by Nilsson (with Lennon co-writing "Mucho Mungo/Mt.

Longtime Beatles publicist Derek Taylor, who produced A Little Touch of Schmilsson in the Night, wrote the liner notes for the original Pussy Cats pressing.

In it, he referred to the album's notorious recording background and quipped, "Harry, and John [...] have been living a vampire turntable recently but have sucked no blood except each other's and not so much of that, [...] Anyway, the cross-transfusion works, so what the hell.

Lana Del Rey references "Don't Forget Me" directly in the lyrics of her song "Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd" released in December 2022.