The clearest sign that this is the most important song in the career of Donna Lewis is the fact that the bio on her website begins by explaining that the hit, while being the one by which most fans have come to know her, is not her be-all and end-all, that she has a much broader range as evinced by her duet with Richard Marx “At the Beginning” from the soundtrack to Anastasia to her piano/vocal album Be Still.

The song itself is was inspired by the semi-autobiographical novel “Love for Lydia” by H.E. Bates. The narrator, Richardson, chronicles the affairs of the young, wealthy, sheltered and selfish Lydia Aspen with himself and two other men. In the end, he commits himself to Lydia in a much deeper way then he was capable of even understanding at the beginning of the book.

The song reached #5 on the UK Singles chart and #2 on the US Billboard Hot 100 for nine weeks. On the latter, it was kept from #1 by Los Del Rio’s Bayside Boys Remix of “Macarena”. It did reach #1 on the Hot 100 Airplay for thirteen weeks.