[7][8] The session musicians on the song included Carl Chambers, who was later drummer with Gladys Knight & the Pips, Joe Thomas, who went on to become the guitarist with the Impressions, and Motown's Mike Terry on baritone sax.

[9] By early 1968, the Antiguan-born American businessman Milton Samuel,[10][11][12] the head of Beacon Records, a small independent record label started in January 1968 in the Afro-Caribbean London suburb of Willesden,[13] who was later Antigua & Barbuda's Ambassador to the UK and the founder of the Bank of Antigua,[14][15] purchased the UK leasing rights for "Ain't Nothing But a House Party" for only £30.

[12] On February 16, 1968, "Ain't Nothing But a House Party" became the first release on Beacon Records,[16][17] In March 1968 Samuel and Mike Berry of Apple Records had negotiated a deal for "Ain't Nothing But a House Party" to be released through a newly created Milton Apple Music,[18] but the inability to locate one of the Beatles to approve the deal forced Samuel to make alternate arrangements.

[19] Initially distributed through the British Independent Record Distributors Network,[13][20] "Ain't Nothing But a House Party" caught on with DJs in the UK, and spent 16 weeks in the chart, debuting at No.

According to one British source, "Ain't Nothing But a House Party" "was played to death and back to life at the Twisted Wheel and Blue Note Club in Manchester",[24] and peaked at No.

2 AOR US hit with it in 1973; By Noel McCalla in 1979 and Phil Fearon, who recorded a house music version produced by Stock Aitken Waterman in 1986 that reached No.

The Showstoppers' follow-up single, "Eeny Meeny" b/w "How Easy the Heart Forgets" (Heritage HE 802), was released in September 1968 in the US, but it failed to chart there.

Beat!, a West German television show,[35] where they lip synched "Ain't Nothin' But a House Party" and their new release, "Eeny Meeny".

The Showstoppers released several more singles, including "Shake Your Mini" (1968);[37] and 1969's "Just A Little Bit Of Lovin'" b/w "School Prom" (Beacon BEA 130), however none achieved chart success.