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
How Are Things in Glocca Morra? also performed this during her famous two-week run at The Batley Variety Club in 1965. Jazz guitarist Gene Bertoncini recorded a memorable solo guitar arrangement of this song on his 1999 release, "Body and Soul". Violinist Vov Dylan recorded this with Pianist Glenn Amer for the album release "Cocktail Classics" (2016) The song was a particular favorite of President John F. Kennedy, as was "Finian's Rainbow." The song was parodied by Scotland the What? about their fictional Aberdeenshire village Auchterturra in "How Are Things in Auchterturra?" In the movie "Party Monster", Seth Green's character, James Saint James, makes a reference