Three
singles were released from the album: "
Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get", "Get Up and Get Down" and "
In the Rain". "Thankful for Your Love" (originally appearing on the album as "Thank You for Your Love")[1] was also issued as a
promotional single. "In the Rain" was the most successful single from the album, peaking at #5 on the
Billboard Hot 100 in 1972.[3] "Get Up and Get Down" was featured in Dead Presidents.
Reviewing in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), Village Voice critic
Robert Christgau wrote of the album: "Sounds like better Motown than recently and greasier Motown than ever, and it figures—this
Tempts-styled Detroit quintet, with Ron Banks in the
David Ruffin role, play for the Memphis Grease Kings. 'Get Up and Get Down' and 'Watcha See Is Whatcha Get' resound with uptempo
bottom, and while I find the big dramatic number, 'In the Rain,' a little too big and too dramatic, I do prefer
Don Davis's sound effects to
Norman Whitfield's. Better
filler than Motown, too—but not that much better."[4] Q Magazine described the album as "consistently impressive [with] 'Hot Pants In The Summertime' carrying a peculiar angst-ridden intensity".[2]