[3] Field began singing professionally in the early 1970s, purchasing an Oakland cabaret, the Cold Duck Music Lounge, where he headlined.

[4] His first album for Boardwalk also featured the track "She's Got Papers On Me", the lament of a married man wanting his mistress, which was interrupted by his wife, played by Betty Wright, setting out her view of the situation.

[5] He had first recorded and released the song for DRK in 1975, in which he lamented not only the world's problems, but also those of his own life (from an ugly pregnant girlfriend to the need to read the Bible).

Fields was persuaded to re-record and update it by an old friend, including it on his album Mr. Look So Good!, before it was issued as a single.

While Fields had moderate success on the US R&B chart, both under his name and his nickname, "Dimples", "If It Ain't One Thing, It's Another" was his only Billboard Hot 100 entry.