Don't Fall in Love explained
Don't Fall in Love |
Type: | single |
Artist: | The Ferrets |
Album: | Dreams of a Love |
B-Side: | "Lies" |
Recorded: | 1977 |
Label: | Mushroom |
Prev Title: | Robin Hood |
Prev Year: | 1977 |
Next Title: | Janie May |
Next Year: | 1977 |
"Don't Fall in Love" is a song by Australian pop band The Ferrets. Released in June 1977 as the lead single from their debut studio album Dreams of a Love, the song peaked a number 2 on the Australian Kent Music Report.
The song was recorded in three to eight hours with the intention of being the B-side for "Lies" but producer Ian Molly Meldrum (under the pseudo Willie Everfinish) realised "it was too good to be B-side".[1] [2]
Recording
Engineer Tony Cohen said, "There's no snare because [drummer] Rick Brewer forgot to bring it. Everyone dropped a trip. It was midnight by the time we arrived at Rick's, so we threw one down his throat and were back at AAV within the hour. By nine o'clock that morning, "Don't Fall in Love" was done. We played it to Molly. He said, 'Yeah, that great.'"[3]
Track listing
- Australian 7-inch (K-6825)
- "Don't Fall in Love"
- Lies"
Charts
Year-end charts
Notes and References
- News: The quirks that made it work. 5 August 2006. The Sydney Morning Herald . 30 December 2021.
- Book: Meldrum . Ian . Jenkins . Jeff . Farnham, John (preface); Gudinski, Michael (introduction); Masterson, Lawrie (afterword) . The never, um, ever ending story: life, countdown and everything in between . 2014 . Crows Nest, NSW. Allen & Unwin . 978-1-76011-205-9. 307 .
- Book: Cohen, Tony . With John Olson . Half Deaf, Completely Mad. 2023. 40. Melbourne, VIC. Black Inc. Books. 978-1-74382-308-8.
- Book: Kent, David. David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. illustrated. Australian Chart Book. St Ives, N.S.W.. 1993. 0-646-11917-6. 139, 429. N.B. The Kent Report chart was licensed by ARIA between mid-1983 and 19 June 1988.
- Web site: Kent Music Report No 183 – 26 December 1977 > National Top 100 Singles for 1977 . . Imgur.com. 8 January 2022.