[2] In 2004 it finished at #39 in AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema.

On the Cash Box chart, where all singles were combined, the song reached a peak position of No.

It was released on the album Vince Guaraldi, Bola Sete and Friends, and was a featured single (it did not chart).

The phrase "days of wine and roses" is originally from the poem "Vitae Summa Brevis" by the English writer Ernest Dowson (1867–1900): They are not long, the days of wine and roses: Out of a misty dream Our path emerges for a while, then closes Within a dream.

In 2024, Christian McBride and Edgar Meyer included the song in their album But Who's Gonna Play the Melody?.