Six of the tracks first appeared on her previous album, Sing a Song, on Buddah Records.

The single contained the album version with "Gonna Make Changes" as the B-side.

[2] Somewhere in My Lifetime received its first Compact Disc release in Japan on September 22, 1999.

[6] SoulMusic Records released their own expanded edition in 2013 in the United Kingdom, with the aforementioned 12" versions added as bonus tracks, as well as the three songs from Sing a Song that did not make it onto Somewhere in My Lifetime on its original release.

The Bay State Banner deemed the album "black MOR," writing that most of the songs are "so marginal that Hyman's talents wind up buried in dross, stale arrangement and meandering production.