the management or rca victor and the four lovers were encouraged by the success of "you're the apple of my eye" to make arrangements for recording an album for release for christmas sales. the result, "joyride", had a collection of rhythm-and-blues and western covers, with a few pop standards and a handful of never-before-released songs, complete with a rollicking version of "white christmas", patterned similar to the drifters' version from 1955. in addition, rca was releasing four lovers' singles roughly every two weeks, including covers of hank williams' "jambalaya", faye adams' "shake a hand", and an early vocal version of "night train".