1981 and appeared at No. 1 in Australia, No. 22 in New Zealand, and No. 67 on the UK Singles Chart (in June 1982). The track was written by Field and has also been performed by Beccy Cole and Marina Prior. At the APRA Music Awards of 1982 Field won Most Performed Australasian Popular Work for that track. As singles, both the title track to the album and "You Weren't in Love With Me" were awarded gold discs in Australia for sales of over 50,000 copies. According to the Australian musicologist, Ian McFarlane, "[Field] was one of the most popular acts on the Australian scene" in 1981, as a "husky voiced singer/piano player". The Australian Women's Weeklys Susan Moore observed, "[his] music is conducive to a bright mood. He dared to be a little different and got away with it. His breezy, swing style of music is punctuated with refined blasts of orchestration." Field's second album, Try Biology, appeared in 1982 and provided his third Australian hit single, "True Love", which reached No. 17. The album was also produced by Price. Lisa Perry of The Canberra Times saw his performance at Queanbeyan in September that year and wrote, "He still has what it takes to entertain even the hardest of audiences. If you are in any way interested in some good jazz, interspersed with some driving rock and roll, you would have had to agree that [Field] is a unique talent." Her newspaper colleague, Karen Milliner, described how the single did not reflect his style, "[it] is a commercial number which obviously has succeeded, but it's the only one of its ilk on the album. Apart from two slow songs on side two, the rest of the tracks have that jazz and big-band sound which Field loves — lots of jazz piano, trumpets, trombones and sax... [his] gravel-edged throaty voice is ideally suited to jazz, and there's some great jazz piano and brass arrangements featured." In November 1985, Field was a guest lead vocalist for Warren Daly's band (ex-Daly-Wilson Big Band). The Canberra Times Michael Foster observed, "[Daly is] expected to put a tight and exciting band of accomplished musicians on the stage ... and the combination with [Field] makes the prospect even more fascinating... if Field decides to demonstrate, even beyond his undoubted ability as a composer, lyricist and singer, his skills on bass, piano, drums, guitar or woodwinds."