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| B-side = If You Feel It
▲| Artist = [[Dan Hartman]] & [[Denise Lopez (American singer)|Denise Lopez]]
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▲| Released = December 17, 1988<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.45cat.com/record/am1264 |title=Dan Hartman And Denise Lopez - The Love You Take / If You Feel It - A&M - USA - AM-1264 |publisher=45cat |date=1988-12-17 |accessdate=2014-03-04}}</ref>
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| Producer = [[Dan Hartman]]▼
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| Last single = "[[Waiting to See You]]"<br />(1986)▼
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| This single = "'''The Love You Take'''"<br />(1988)▼
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| prev_year = 1986
| next_title = [[Keep the Fire Burnin' (Dan Hartman song)|Keep the Fire Burnin']]
| next_year = 1994
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| artist = [[Denise Lopez (American singer)|Denise Lopez]]
| type = single
| prev_title = Too Much Too Late
| prev_year = 1988
| title = The Love You Take
| year = 1988
| next_title = Don't You Wanna Be Mine
| next_year = 1990
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"'''''The Love You Take'''''" is a duet song by American musician-singer-songwriter [[Dan Hartman]] and freestyle\dance singer [[Denise Lopez (American singer)|Denise Lopez]]. As part of the official soundtrack for the 1988 comedy film ''[[Scrooged]]'', starring [[Bill Murray]], it would be released as a single. The song was written and produced by Hartman.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.discogs.com/master/view/135982 |title=Denise Lopez & Dan Hartman - The Love You Take at Discogs |year=1988 |publisher=Discogs.com |access-date
==Background==
By the late 1980s, Hartman focused on production and writing material for other artists
From the soundtrack, [[Annie Lennox]] and [[Al Green]] would find success with "[[Put A Little Love in Your Heart]]", which reached #9 in the US, and was a top 40 hit in several countries worldwide.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.discogs.com/Various-Scrooged-Original-Motion-Picture-Soundtrack/master/226265 |title=Various - Scrooged - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack at Discogs |year=1989 |publisher=Discogs.com |access-date=2014-03-04}}</ref> "The Love You Take" was commercially released for the public to purchase and also featured in promotional only formats. The single made an appearance on the US [[Cashbox (magazine)|Cash Box]] Top 100 Singles Chart - a weekly music magazine publication. It peaked at #75, lasting for seven weeks in the chart. The single reached its peak on December 17, 1988.<ref name="google1">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dCIKAQAAMAAJ&q=Denise+Lopez+dan+hartman |title=Cash box pop singles charts, 1950-1993 - Pat Downey, George Albert, Frank W. Hoffmann - Google Books |isbn=9781563083167 |access-date=2014-03-04|last1=Downey |first1=Pat |last2=Albert |first2=George |last3=Hoffmann |first3=Frank W. |year=1994 }}</ref>
In the March 7, 1989 edition of the ''Mohave Daily Miner'', Hartman was interviewed by Mary Campbell. When it came to speaking about the various songs that he has contributed to film soundtracks, Hartman admitted the following:<blockquote>"I wish they'd snap out of having rock songs in films to try and sell the film, and go back to writing good scripts and making good films. I think ultimately they don't care about songs anyway. I got tired of cranking out pop songs that end up over the credits at the end. It's territory I moved through and don't want to do anymore."</blockquote>"The Love You Take" was one of the last songs Hartman would perform and contribute to a film soundtrack.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Campbell|first=Mary|date=March 7, 1989|title=Dan Hartman Manages to Turn a Career Valley Into a Peak|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=943&dat=19890307&id=gGkLAAAAIBAJ&sjid=OlMDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6768,567004|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-10-29|website=Mohave Daily Miner}}</ref> The song features [[Pat Thrall]] on guitar. Having worked with Hartman at his Connecticut home studio on Tina Turner's 1989 album ''[[Foreign Affair (Tina Turner album)|Foreign Affair]]'', Thrall returned to Hartman's studio again to record the guitar for "The Love You Take". As Thrall recalled,<blockquote>"He told me after Tina's album he was going to take a break for a while and get his health together. I didn't realize at the time he had AIDS. He passed way too soon. He was a sweetheart of a guy and an amazing talent. Actually I came back one more time and played on a record he did for The Scrooge Movie with Bill Murray."''<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Pat Thrall reminisces about working on Tina Turner's song "The Best" for producer Dan Hartman in 1989|url=http://www.jungleroom.com/patthrall.html|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-10-29|website=Jungleroom.com®}}</ref>''</blockquote>
==Release==
The single was released on 7" vinyl, 12" vinyl and CD single via A&M Records in America only. The 7" vinyl release was the only commercially available format to purchase, and it featured Lopez's hit dance chart song "If You Feel It" as the B-Side, taken from her ''Truth in Disguise'' debut album.<ref>{{cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=The Love You Take=b/w= If You Feel It(pop 7")=7" 45 Record: Music [sic]|url=
==Track listing==
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==Critical reception==
Heather Phares of Allmusic reviewed the ''Scrooged'' soundtrack album, and stated
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* Dan Hartman - vocals, producer, writer
* Denise Lopez - vocals
* Pat Thrall - guitar
==Charts==
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|align="left"|US ''[[Cashbox (magazine)|Cash Box]]'' Top 100 Singles Chart<ref name="google1"/>
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==References==
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