 Having funded the pressing of 500 copies of the single, O'Connor sent copies of it to British radio stations, with the studio's phone number on them.One Liverpool station began giving the phone number out on air and O'Connor began to receive many phone calls from the area, asking for copies of the record.A Radio 1 disc jockey, Simon Bates, promoted the song and after an initial release where it reached 74th position in the on the UK Singles Chart, it climbed the following week to 13th place.