Instead of using a full band, Leka played keyboards and had engineer Warren Dewey splice together a drum track from one of DeCarlo's four singles and a conga drum solo by Ange DiGeronimo recorded in Leka's Bridgeport, Connecticut studio for an entirely different session. With DeCarlo as lead vocalist, they recorded the song in one recording session. In need of a B-side, Leka and DeCarlo resurrected an old song from their days as the Glenwoods, "Kiss Him Goodbye", with their old bandmate, Frashuer. The singles impressed the company's executives, who wanted to issue all of them as A-side singles. In 1968, DeCarlo recorded four songs at Mercury Records in New York with Leka as producer. The group disbanded when Leka talked Frashuer into going into New York City with him to write and possibly produce. Paul Leka, Gary DeCarlo and Dale Frashuer wrote a blues shuffle version of the song in the early 1960s when they were members of a doo-wop group from Bridgeport, Connecticut, called the Glenwoods, the Citations, and the Chateaus, of which Leka was the piano player.
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