Don't Take Love for Granted
Don't Take Love for Granted is an album released in late 1978 by Lulu on Elton John's label, The Rocket Record Company. History Don't Take Love for Granted was produced by Mark London - composer of Lulu's career record "To Sir With Love" and husband of Lulu's longtime manager Marion Massey - and Lem Lubin, one time bassist with Unit 4 + 2 and Christie and from 1977 A&R head for Rocket Records. According to Lulu the genesis of the album was a request from London that Lulu cut demos of several compositions by Neil Harrison a composer London had recently discovered: the intent was to pitch Harrison's songs to another singer but (quote Lulu:) "as soon as we did the demos it was very obvious that they weren't going to be demos. They were obviously going to be for me." Four of the tracks on the completed Don't Take Love For Granted were Neil Harrison compositions including the title cut which - with Harrison's "Love is the Sweetest Mistake" as B-side - was issued as lead single in September 1978, both in the UK and the US, where neither it nor its parent album attracted any significant attention. The