Judging by on the credits on the album jacket, "Oh What A Feeling" should have been a fantastic record; It was cut at Muscle Shoals Studios in Sheffield, Alabama. Roger Hawkins, David Hood, Jesse Boyce, Mose Dillard, Harrison Calloway were all fine musicians. Jerry Wexler and Barry Beckett produced and four songs were submitted by none other than Paul Kelly, the man behind such Soul classics as "Chills And Fever", "Stealing In The Name Of The Lord" and "Hooked, Hogtied & Collared". Unlike what many other artists would say in a situation like this, Mavis doesn't lay any of the blame for the album's mediocrity on the label. "Warner Brothers wanted me to do an album for them that was gonna be more on the Jazz-side. I was under contract with them and I had been under contract for almost a year and I had just been sitting and waiting and nothing had gotten started. Finally, I just thought I'd get something started and I messed up in the process! (laughs). I should have been patient, like I tell all these kids when they ask me about the business. But what I did was, I jumped the gun on them. I don't know what was happening then or what I was going through, so that I just didn't wait for them. I called Jerry Wexler and asked him if he would help me produce this album. He said yes and got everything started. Warner Brothers were reluctant about it because they wanted me to do what they wanted me to do and I didn't wait. Those were dead sessions, because I think Warner Brothers let Jerry know what I had done and what they had planned, when he went and got the budget and everything. So, that kind scared Jerry Wexler up. And it was just no fun! I stayed at Barry Beckett's house. None of us were there! I think Warner Brothers had put the word out that 'Mavis has gotten too fast and jumped the gun on us when we wanted to do this with her' and I think it scared up both Jerry and Barry. It just was no fire, no spirit there. And then the next thing Warner did -in my place- they did Randy Crawford. What they wanted for me, they gave it to her. They wanted a girl to sing Jazz on their label. If I had just waited, I would have been the one. So I feel I messed up because 'Oh What A Feeling' was a total flop. I can hear myself singing those songs that Randy's singing. I can hear myself singing Jazz and one day I will make a Jazz record, but it was just the timing and I was kinda crazy then and I don't know. I jumped the gun and blew it."

"Tonight I Feel Like Dancing" barely made the R&B Top 100 singles chart, settling at #91 in July 1979. "I just knew that I had made a bum album and I did focus more on the family after that. I was so embarrassed about that album. This guy, George Schiffer, who was managing me, I think he thought that taking all those pictures and putting them on the back of the album jacket would make up for it (laughs). Those were good photo sessions. We went shopping down at Giorgio's on Rodeo Drive, the most expensive place in Los Angeles, where all the stars shop. They let me keep the clothes at Warner Brothers' expense, they had to pay for them. Yeah, I really blew that. And Warner Brothers got me back by not letting my stuff with Prince get heard. See, when I got with Prince, then they thought 'this is a chance for us to smash her back in the face. We won't this stuff be heard' (laughs). No, but really, I think they didn't let them be played because they were fighting with Prince. It just rubbed off on me. That's life. You have to take the good and the bad and make something out of it and keep on stepping."