Hawkins' original vision for the song was a refined ballad, according to the Allmusic Guide to the Blues. When the band went to record the song, however, they were quite intoxicated, especially Hawkins, who turned his own refined ballad into something very different.
Hawkins ended up blacking out and didn't even remember recording the song when he woke the next day. He had to listen to the recording so that he could learn a song he had sung the night before.
The song was in such stark contrast to what it was originally supposed to sound like that the record label actually released a second version with most of the grunts that embellished the track taken out due to complaints about it's overt sexuality. Even so, some places still banned the song from radio.
