Disney soundtrack veterans George Burns and Floyd Huddlestone (what a name!!) penned this charmingly schmaltzy ditty as the romantic ballad for the bizarre all-animal edition that is 1973's Robin Hood. I watched all the Disney classics as a child, and I remember this fox-on-fox pairing struck a 7-year-old me as quite romantic. I found the couple more genuine than say, Sleeping Beauty and Prince Phillip or Snow White and Prince Charming. I think that's because even as a young child, I was able to comprehend the idea that true love comes from a shared history together. Maiden Marion and Robin Hood were childhood sweethearts separated and reunited after years of longing for one another. Plus, they both seemed to have personalities, unlike most Disney Princes and Princesses, who were all blandly noble and or annoyingly cheerful."Love" is the height of 70s cheese. There is so much dubbing, you feel like you are in a forest of guitars and violins! No character sings the song in the film. It is just there in the background, playing while the foxes flit around in a trance of love. I want you, reader, to really stop and think about your life! Have you caught fireflies among the lotus flowers recently? Has someone even ever made you a homemade flower-ring? Even though that swamp land looks like a bunch of mosquito bites waiting to happen, it doesn't matter when you're in a love-trance! Have you gone through to the other side of the waterfall? (Vegas hotel pools don't count!) Because you know what, "life is brief, but when it's gone, love goes on and on"! They never re-released the full soundtrack of Robin Hood after the original record pressing in the 70s, but singles like "Love" pop up here and there on compilations. However, this song will play in my heart (and youtube) for the rest of time!
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