 Although it was initially intended only as an album track, BBC Radio 1 disc jockey Tony Blackburn featured it heavily on his morning programme, and persuaded EMI—which at the time issued all Tamla Motown material in the UK—to release it as a single.It reached No.1 on the UK Singles Chart for four weeks in August 1971; this prompted a retitling in the UK of the album "Surrender" as "I'm Still Waiting".