One of those tracks which seem to take on added stature when taken from an LP ('Poetry In Lotion') and released as a single. 'Don't Take Love' is a lovely song, with a bittersweet melancholy in it's tune, and from the opening 'Take the floor with the boy next door' it is beautifully sung and played. You might even say that this could well be the sort of record Buddy Holly would be making were he still alive. The string add to rather that detract from the atmosphere and Shel Talmy's production is just right. Marks Fumble's coming of age - I hope they'll forgive me for saying that. The middle eight (I think it's the middle eight anyway, although I've never been entirely clear what 'the middle eight' is) starts off just like something else and I spent at least 30 minutes trying to identify the something else. It's 'Love Hurts'.