The song won a Grammy Award in 1981 for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance.

NBC Sports used the song as theme music for its coverage of the NCAA men's basketball tournament in 1980 and 1981.

WPVI-TV in Philadelphia had a local weekend program of the same name and had the song as its theme throughout the 1980s.

At one point in the song's evolution, its melody was underway, but the lyrics were incomplete.

Loggins moved it forward after a visit to his ailing father, who had undergone a series of surgeries for vascular problems stemming from small strokes and was discouraged at the prospect of another.