With “If I Didn’t Care” selling over 19 million copies, it became the 10th best selling single of all time, propelling the little vocal jazz group (and the writer of the song, Jack Lawrence) to super stardom.

The success of the tune would lead the Ink Spots to transition from fast, uptempo jive songs to slower ballads.

It was also their first studio record which used a format introduced by lead singer Bill Kenny, called “Top & Bottom”. The idea behind it is that Kenny would sing the verses and the chorus as a tenor with bass singer Orville Jones taking over during the bridge, delivering his lines in a bass-y spoken manner (dubbed “Talking Bass”).
This would become their signature, utilized in many different songs until their eventual disbandment in 1954.