[2] The song was first released on the North State record label owned by Ronald Killette (Buck Trail), then based in Goldsboro, N.C., under the production of John I Whitfield .
Authorship credit for the song was originally shared by Buck Trail and O'Kaysions band member Wayne Pittman.
Due to the popularity of this single it was sold to and released nationally by ABC Records where it eventually reached #5 on the Billboard pop charts.
As the song was recorded at Pitt Sound Studio, Greenville, North Carolina, a budget studio, the master tape was long thought to be missing, a story dismissed by original member Wayne Pittman who believes that ABC Records took possession of the master and still maintains it.
In November 2003, the original line-up, wit the exception of Pittman, reunited for a one-time show at the Alabama Theater in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, where they received a CBMA Hall of Fame Award.