Released as the lead single from the Head First album in January 1979, “Every Time I Think of You” ascended to a Billboard Hot 100 peak of #13 that April. The Babys’ previous Top 40 hit “Isn’t It Time” had also peaked at #13; like “Isn’t It Time” – which was also a Jack Conrad/Ray Kennedy composition – “Every Time I Think of You” augmented the vocal of Babys’ frontman John Waite with prominent female vocals: whereas “Isn’t It Time” had featured a female chorale, “Every Time I Think of You” featured a vocal solo by Annie Bertucci. Jimmie Haskell arranged and conducted the string section heard on the track.