Don't Make Promises

"Don't Make Promises"
Song by Tim Hardin
from the album Tim Hardin 1
Released1966
LabelVerve
Songwriter(s)Tim Hardin
Producer(s)Erik Jacobsen

"Don’t Make Promises" was the first track on Tim Hardin's debut album Tim Hardin 1, released in 1966. The song, along with "Reason to Believe," was one of the two major songwriting hits from the album,[1] with more than a dozen cover versions having been recorded following its release.[2] British radio presenter and writer Charlie Gillett noted the song's ability to achieve "the elusive balance between personal miseries and universal sufferings,"[3] while author Mark Brend praised the song's "fragile pop sensibilities" and how it contrasted with the "swaggering" R&B of album track "Ain't Gonna Do Without."[4]

  1. ^ Eder, Bruce. "Tim Hardin 1 - Review". Allmusic (Macrovision Corporation). Retrieved 2009-10-24.
  2. ^ Bogdanov, Vladimir; Woodstra, Chris; Erlewine, Stephen Thomas (2002). All Music Guide to Rock: The Definitive Guide to Rock, Pop, and Soul (3rd ed.). San Francisco: Backbeat Books. p. 503. ISBN 978-0-87930-653-3.
  3. ^ Gillett, Charlie (1996). The Sound Of The City: The Rise Of Rock And Roll (2nd ed.). New York: Da Capo Press. p. 308. ISBN 978-0-306-80683-4.
  4. ^ Brend, Mark (2001). American Troubadours: Groundbreaking Singer-Songwriters of the 60s (1st ed.). San Francisco: Backbeat Books. p. 82. ISBN 978-0-87930-641-0.