Originally cut for Pappy Daily’s D label, the recording was purchased by Mercury Records and released in the summer of 1958, just over six months after Chuck Berry released “Sweet Little Sixteen”, which uses the same chord progression. The song reached #6 on the pop charts and spent 22 weeks on the national Top 40. It was the third-most played song of 1958.

Curiously, it has been one of the first songs to have a proper videoclip: plus, it has inspired an ironic response song, entitled “That Makes It”, sung by the late American actress Jayne Mansfield.