Meco explained how Jon Bon Jovi was selected as the vocalist on this track:

My co-producer was Tony Bongiovi. Jon Bon Jovi was his little cousin and by little I mean we were all in our 30s and early 40s but Jon at that time was 17 years old… I was stuck on this one song. I had three different people come in to sing it and I didn’t like the way any of them sounded. Tony says to me, ‘Why don’t you try little Jon’. Well, all right, let’s try him. And after just the first few notes out of his mouth I said, ‘Yes! This is him. This is the one! This is the one who should sing it’. He had this cute little voice – he was still a kid, and his voice really hadn’t even come down in pitch yet. It was still a little high but he had a great feeling for it. And of course, we all know what this little kid went on to do, he became one of the biggest rock and roll stars of all time.

…and from the man himself:

This guy Meco would hire session guys and they’d orchestrate stuff with disco beats. He did Star Wars rip-off stuff in the wake of all of George Lucas’ success. And he needed a kid. Meco tried to sing it himself, and he didn’t sound like a young boy. So he said, ‘Can you really sing?’ I said, ‘Yeah,’ and he said, ‘Do it.’ So they wrote me down like a session musician… It took 20 minutes, there was nothing to it.