How Many More Years Midnight", described by Phillips as "the most different record I ever heard", was probably recorded at a different session. Phillips had not yet set up Sun Records and regularly leased his recordings to the Chess label in Chicago. The record was issued as Chess 1479 on 15 September 1951, with "Moanin' at Midnight" as the A-side and "How Many More Years" as the B-side. "Moanin' at Midnight" entered the R&B chart on 10 November 1951, and was followed four weeks later by "How Many More Years", which became the more popular side and rose to no.4 on the chart. The
...Sing for Very Important People increased popularity around 2006, when it was used in the closing credits of the film "Stranger than Fiction". In subsequent years, it was used in commercials for Drumstick ice cream in Australia, Smil chocolate in Norway, Cosmote in Greece, DC Shoes and Toyota, among others, as well as on the television show "Weeds", and as the theme for the podcast "Jordan, Jesse GO!". In 2015, the song was used in a commercial for Delta Air Lines ...Sing for Very Important People ...Sing for Very Important People is a 1970 album by The Free Design. It was the band's fifth album.