Billboard called the song "a cool, easy tempo number which is perfect radio fare for summer" and highlighted the "soft, smooth opening" that "gives way to a hotter sound of horns and soulful female voices".
Cashbox wrote that song "bears the group’s distinctive mark of classy horn arrangement and tight vocals" and that Kath's presence on the track "was keenly felt".
Record World thought that the song possessed one of the band's "best melodies and arrangements in some time" and believed that it would be "a likely hit". ==Personnel==