 The recording by Count Basie & His Orchestra (vocal by Thelma Carpenter) briefly reached the No.21 position in the Billboard charts in 1945  and other recordings available that year were by Duke Ellington, Mildred Bailey, Jo Stafford and Lena Horne.Alec Wilder wrote that it "works well as a song in [the] series of Ellington instrumentals with Russell lyrics.