Then someone asked, 'Don’t you believe in the occult?' I said, 'No man, I believe in music.' And the second I said it, I just went … 'I believe in music'. And I said, 'No man, I don’t think so.' (laughs). They asked me if I would like to join them. I went to the kitchen and fixed myself a drink at the party, and there were a bunch of hippie types and they were gonna have a séance. In a 2017 interview, Davis said the song was inspired while he was in England at the home of Lulu and Maurice Gibb, who were married at that time: Davis said the line about lifting voices to the sky 'epitomized the whole song. It later became his signature song and an iconic anthem of the early '70s. His effort achieved #25 on the Adult Contemporary chart. Mac Davis's original had been released as a single nearly two years earlier and made a minor dent in the pop charts (US #117).

Gallery's version reached #22 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and #13 on the US Cash Box Top 100. Gallery covered it in 1972 as the second of three singles off their Nice to Be with You album and the follow-up release to their title track. ' I Believe in Music' is a 1970 song written and recorded by Mac Davis and later included on his second album I Believe in Music.

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