[2] Arista executives gave the band the song to record after concluding that none of the other tracks on the album they produced had single potential.

Chicago radio superstation WLS, which gave "Wham Bam" much airplay, ranked the song as the 80th biggest hit of 1976.

[3] Arista released two further singles by the band, "Musician (It's Not an Easy Life)" and "Memory" which featured the non-album track "So Much for the Past", written by Brent Mydland, on the B-side.

Mydland joined the Grateful Dead in 1979, and was the band's longest-tenured keyboardist, remaining with the group until his death in 1990 at the age of 37.

Stinson became a country session musician, and was a member of Steve Earle's backing band The Dukes in the mid 1980s.