It was Trask's fourth consecutive top 20 country song in the US and was included on her 1973 studio album It's a Man's World.

Australian native Diana Trask moved to the United States in 1958 and began her career as a pop singer at Columbia Records.

Although her first charting country song was 1968's "Lock, Stock and Teardrops", it was not until the early 1970s that her career reached its peak commercial success.

[4] The first half of the recording begins as a ballad but transitions into an uptempo beat by the end of the song.

[7] "When I Get My Hands on You" spent nine weeks on the US Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, rising to the number 16 position on January 12, 1974.