Reportedly selling a million units in its first eight weeks of release, "Woman to Woman" spent two weeks at #1 on Billboard magazine's Hot Soul Singles chart in November 1974 and crossed-over to the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100, peaking there at #22.

According to Thigpen, he and Banks were brainstorming ideas for songs at Stax Studio (quote:)"trying to come up with...something different.

"[3] Thigpen had recently overheard his wife on the phone arguing with a friend about an involved couple of their acquaintance, and – with Eddie Marion – Thigpen and Banks completed their "Woman to Woman" song structuring it as a phone call from a wife to her husband's mistress.

In 1994, a cover by Jewell featured on the soundtrack to the film Murder Was the Case starring Snoop Dogg.

Jewell's version sampled Shirley Brown's original and peaked at #16 on the R&B chart and #72 on the Billboard Hot 100.