He soon had her appear regularly on his syndicate television show, which brought Maye to the attention of RCA Victor.

[3] Cashbox magazine also highlighted it as an album of ballads, noting that songs like "Love Me True" and "You're Gonna Hear from Me" were both "warm and intimate".

[1] A majority of the album's tracks were new recordings such as "You're Gonna Hear from Me", "I Can See the Rainbow Now", "If I Were in Your Shoes" and "Too Late Now".

[3] The Lamp Is Low was originally released in October 1966 by the RCA Victor label.

Billboard magazine named it among its "Special Merit Picks" in an October 1966 review: "This package is another demonstration of her superlative styling."

[7][8] "Too Late Now" was later chosen as a track on the album 110 Best American Compositions of the Twentieth Century, which was produced by the Smithsonian Institution.