The instrumentation consists of two alternating minor bass-chords, played at the very bottom of the pitch-range of an electric-guitar.
Produced by the Wilder Brothers and Don Ralke, it was released as the B-side of "I Want Someone".
It was flipped inadvertently by a San Francisco DJ and became an immediate hit with local listeners.
Liberty Records of Los Angeles soon signed on the artists for national distribution.
[3] "The Mountain's High" reached the #2 spot in September 1961 on the Billboard Hot 100 and spent two weeks there, held out of #1 by Bobby Vee's "Take Good Care of My Baby", also released by Liberty Records.