Don't Fall in Love

"Don't Fall in Love"
"Don't Fall in Love"
Single by The Ferrets
from the album Dreams of a Love
B-side	"Lies"
Released	June 1977
Recorded	1977
Label	Mushroom
Songwriter(s)	Kenneth Firth, Ian Davis
Producer(s)	Willie Everfinish; the Ferrets;
The Ferrets singles chronology

"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

Weekly charts

Chart (1977)	Peak position
Australia (Kent Music Report)^[4]	2

Year-end charts

Chart (1977)	Position
Australia (Kent Music Report)^[4]^[5]	16

References

^ "The quirks that made it work". The Sydney Morning Herald. 5 August 2006. Retrieved 30 December 2021.
^ Meldrum, Ian; Jenkins, Jeff (2014). The never, um, ever ending story: life, countdown and everything in between. Farnham, John (preface); Gudinski, Michael (introduction); Masterson, Lawrie (afterword). Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin. p. 307. ISBN 978-1-76011-205-9.
^ Cohen, Tony (2023). Half Deaf, Completely Mad. With John Olson. Melbourne, VIC: Black Inc. Books. p. 40. ISBN 978-1-74382-308-8.
^ ^a ^b Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 139, 429. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. N.B. The Kent Report chart was licensed by ARIA between mid-1983 and 19 June 1988.
^ "Kent Music Report No 183 – 26 December 1977 > National Top 100 Singles for 1977". Kent Music Report. Retrieved 8 January 2022 – via Imgur.com.

[SMH-1] "The quirks that made it work". The Sydney Morning Herald. 5 August 2006. Retrieved 30 December 2021.

[2] Meldrum, Ian; Jenkins, Jeff (2014). The never, um, ever ending story: life, countdown and everything in between. Farnham, John (preface); Gudinski, Michael (introduction); Masterson, Lawrie (afterword). Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin. p. 307. ISBN 978-1-76011-205-9.

[3] Cohen, Tony (2023). Half Deaf, Completely Mad. With John Olson. Melbourne, VIC: Black Inc. Books. p. 40. ISBN 978-1-74382-308-8.

[Kent-4] Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 139, 429. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. N.B. The Kent Report chart was licensed by ARIA between mid-1983 and 19 June 1988.

[kent77-5] "Kent Music Report No 183 – 26 December 1977 > National Top 100 Singles for 1977". Kent Music Report. Retrieved 8 January 2022 – via Imgur.com.

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