reynolds' self-penned follow up single, "fire of love", became a rock & roll classic years later, after being revived by the mc5 and the gun club, but only reached no. 66 on the billboard chart when released in august 1958, and was his last song to reach the "hot 100". as with "endless sleep", "fire of love" was given a fictitious co-writer – in this case, "sonja stordivant".