[4][5] They created the instrumentals for the film while touring shortly before band member and lead vocalist, David Clayton-Thomas, departed the group.

[6] This was Clayton-Thomas's first film score credit, and he considered the work as being difficult because he was tasked with placing music over preexisting dialogue.

[2] Rather than five individual songs, the 8-track cartridge of the soundtrack features "Highlights from Buck Henry's Hilarious Screenplay" in four consecutive parts.

He suggested that the soundtrack was Streisand's least successful because the album's songs featured the singer talking and enduring in "endless bickering" instead of actually singing and performing with live vocals.

[12] On Canada's Top Albums chart conducted and published by RPM, The Owl and the Pussycat debuted at number 85 during the week ending January 16, 1971.

[14] Blood, Sweat & Tears released all the film's instrumental and incidental compositions on Rare, Rarer & Rarest, a 2013 compilation album that also includes outtakes from The Owl and the Pussycat score.