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
Evig pint was also released as a digipak CD and LP. Lastly, it was re-released as a bundle together with last year's EP release "Mann mot mann". In 2004, the album, together with the band's earlier and later releases, was re-released throughout Europe, due to the band having signed a contract with Universal Germany. Ultimately, the album did not sell as well as "Ompa til du dør" and disappeared from the album charts in Norway considerably faster. However, "Evig pint" remains one of the albums with most consistency in its overall review score released in Norway to date. "Evig pint" has a