根據原唱歌手陳浩德回憶，個時香港嘅流行曲，大部份係唱英文，或者唱國語。粵語流行曲比人話老土，地位低一截；但似乎都有市場。甄秀儀當時就已經出過幾張唱片，不過全部都係國語歌。佢想試出張粵語流行曲唱片，入面就有呢首歌。原本係甄秀儀獨唱。後來因為負責編曲同配樂嘅黎小田，同甄秀儀用電話溝通時搞錯個Key ，録音時先發覺唱唔到；臨時決定改做男女對唱，搵陳浩德唱男聲。
According to the original singer Chan Ho-tak, most of the popular songs in Hong Kong at that time were sung in English or Chinese. Cantopop music has a lower status than spoken music, but there seems to be a market. Zhen Xiuyi had already released several records at that time, but all of them were Chinese songs. He wanted to try out a Cantonese pop music record, and there was this song in it. It was originally Zhen Xiuyi's solo. Later, because Li Xiaotian, who was in charge of arranging and soundtrack, made a mistake when communicating with Zhen Xiuyi on the phone, he realized that he couldn't sing when he had lips;