With this album, ceased to be a folk music act, at least for the time being. RCA Victor, seeing folk disappear from the charts in favor of electricification, was getting impatient, and decided to augment relatively spare recordings with fuller elements. Enter ., arranger and conductor of pop/smarm/pseudo-rock. proceeded to "spruce up" the thin tunes (all written by the team of and ) with a female vocal accompaniment and a rock & roll combo rhythm section. The theme for this album, ostensibly, was a humorous look at love songs. The zany cover, featuring smock-clad measuring a lookalike, is easily their silliest. , always the professional iconoclast, lurched into this project with his usual eclectic abandon, but it didn't work. The only thing that could have saved the departure of (by now flying high on the success of "Baby the Rain Must Fall") was either another tenor or superior material. Neither had surfaced by now. This would be the last release of new material by for three years. ~ Cary Ginell