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ON THIS DATE (45 YEARS AGO) February 17, 1976 Eagles: Their Greatest Hits (19711975) is released. # ALL THINGS MUSIC PLUS+ 5/5 (MUST-HAVE!) # Allmusic 5/5... Their Greatest Hits (19711975) is a compilation album by the Eagles, released on February 17, 1976. It topped the Billboard 200 Top LP's chart for five weeks total. Sales aren't always a testament to greatness. But in the case of the Eagles' Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975, there's no denying the power of the truly astonishing numbers. Having already sold more than 29 million copies since its original 1976 release, this unsurpassed and timeless collection transcends listening tastes, popular trends, genre boundaries, generations, and any conceivable debates. Elvis once released a record titled 50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong. The same logic applies here. Their Greatest Hits (19711975) comprises nine best-selling singles released between 1972 and 1975, as well as "Desperado", which had never been previously released as an A-side. All single tracks but "Tequila Sunrise" charted in the top 40, with five in the top ten, and "One of These Nights" and "Best of My Love" both topping the singles chart. With such airplay success in the span of a little over four years, the band became a formidable presence on American commercial radio in the 1970s, and Their Greatest Hits (19711975). In a 2001 radio interview, Randy Meisner revealed neither he nor Bernie Leadon were even notified of the record-breaking award presented to them in 1999, and "...had to call and we finally received it." __________ Liner Notes Booklet: CONVERSATIONS WITH DON HENLEY AND GLENN FREY by Cameron Crowe, August 2003 (excerpts pulled for tracks on this release) SIDE ONE 1. TAKE IT EASY GLENN: Jackson Browne, J.D. Souther, and I all lived at 1020 Laguna in Echo Park. J.D. and I shared a $60-a-month, one-room apartment -- a couch and kind of a bed with a curtain in front of it. Right underneath us in an even smaller studio apartment was Jackson. He had his piano and guitars down there. I didn't really know how to sit down and work on a song until I heard him playing underneath us in the basement. He would work on "Jamaica Say You Will," and he had the first verse and chorus. Then he would sing the second verse -- sing it five or six times -- and then silence. Twenty seconds later, he would start again and sing the second verse this time, and, if he liked it, he'd sing it over and over again. I had never really witnessed that sort of focus -- someone being that fastidious -- and it gave me a different idea about how to write songs; that maybe it wasn't all just going to be a flood of inspiration. That's when I first heard "Take It Easy." DON: We gave Glenn a nickname, The Lone Arranger. He had a vision about how our voices could blend and how to arrange the vocals and, in many cases, the tracks. He also had a knack for remembering and choosing good songs. Jackson had shelved "Take It Easy" because he couldn't complete it, but it was Glenn who remembered the song from some time earlier and asked Jackson about it one day. GLENN: I told him that I really liked it. "What was that, man? What a cool tune that is." He started playing it for me and said, "Yeah, but I don't know -- I'm stuck." So he played the second unfinished verse and I said, "It's a girl, my lord, in a flatbed Ford, slowin' down to take a look at me." That was my contribution to "Take It Easy," really, just finishing the second verse. Jackson was so thrilled. He said, "Okay! We cowrote this." But it's certainly more of him. Sometimes, you know, it's the package without the ribbon. He already had the lines about Winslow, Arizona. He'd had car trouble and broken down there on one of his trips to Sedona. He spent a long day in Winslow.... I don't know that we could have ever had a better opening song on our first album. Just those open chords felt like an announcement, "And now ... the Eagles." 2. WITCHY WOMAN DON: Bernie and I just sort of stumbled upon "Witchy Woman." I was living in an old house in the Hollywood Hills on the corner of Camrose and Tower, near the Hollywood Bowl. Bernie was living way out in Topanga Canyon, but he came over one day and started playing this strange, minor-key riff that sounded sort of like a Hollywood movie version of Indian music -- you know, the kind of stuff they play when the Indians ride up on the ridge while the wagon train passes below. It had a haunting quality, and I thought it was interesting, so we put a rough version of it down on a cassette tape. Shortly after that, I came down with the flu. I had a very high fever and became semi-delirious at times -- and that's when I wrote most of the lyrics. Every time the fever subsided, I would continue to read a new book I'd gotten on the life of Zelda Fitzgerald, and I think that figured into the mix somehow -- along with amorphous images of girls I had met at the Whisky and the Troubadour. An important song for me, because it marked the beginning of my professional songwriting career. It went to #9 in the charts. 3. LYIN' EYES DON: "Lyin' Eyes" is one of the songs written when Glenn and I were roommates in a house we rented up in Trousdale. It was built in 1942 by the actress Dorothy Lamour. Glenn and I lived at opposite ends of the house and we actually converted a music room to a full-on recording studio. The house was located at the highest point on the hill and we had a 360-degree panorama. In the daytime, we could see snowcapped peaks to the east and the blue Pacific to the west. At night, the twinkling lights of the city below were breathtaking. The place had a couple of nicknames -- "the House With the Million Dollar View" and "The Eagles' Nest," of course. We had some great times up there. As for "Lyin' Eyes," Glenn's pretty much responsible for that track and for the title, the choruses. I helped out with the verses and perhaps with the melody. It's really Glenn's baby. GLENN: The house was up on Briarcrest Lane. That's where we wrote "One Of These Nights," "Lyin' Eyes," "Take It To The Limit," "After The Thrill Is Gone," and a couple of other tunes for the One Of These Nights album. But "Lyin' Eyes" -- the story had always been there. I don't want to say it wrote itself, but once we started working on it, there were no sticking points. LYrics just kept coming out, and that's not always the way songs get written. I think songwriting is a lot like pushing a boulder up a hill. I'd love to get the legal pad for "Lyin' Eyes" again, because I think there were verses we didn't use. 4. ALREADY GONE GLENN: I got a tape of the song from Jack Tempchin in my mailbox at 1740 La Fontaine Ct., the house in Coldwater Canyon where I lived for 16 years. James Cagney's brother, Ed, had once owned the house, and it still holds a lot of memories for me. James Cagney, in his later years, sometimes used the house as a hideaway and went there to play the piano and relax. In earlier years, the Cagneys held great parties in that bungalow. A lot of music happened there. "Already Gone," though, arrived in the mail. Jack was a songwriter we liked who was from San Diego, and he'd already written "Peaceful Easy Feeling." "Already Gone" was one of the first songs we'd later do when we switched producers and started recording in Los Angeles. I had a very strained relationship with Glyn Johns. I think he got along better with all the other guys in the band. He was so intimidating, I was always afraid to be forthright and tell him what I thought. He was a taskmaster, and that was probably good for a young band, but the great thing for me about this song and record is that I left England behind and had a much more positive energy in the recording studio. The "all right, nighty-night" at the end of the song was sort of typical of the spontaneous feeling we wanted on our records. It was at this time that we changed producers and started working with Bill Szymczyk. I was much more comfortable in the studio with Bill, and he was more than willing to let everyone stretch a bit. "Already Gone" -- that's me being happier; that's me being free. 5. DESPERADO DON: "Desperado" was a song fragment that I'd had since the late '60s. Maybe '68, I started that song. It wasn't even called "Desperado." It was called something else, but it was the same melody, same chords. I think it had something to do with astrology [chuckles]. Whatever the title was back then, it was horrible [laughs]. Jackson Browne suggested a Western theme -- something to do with playing cards, I think -- which is sort of where we were headed anyway. When we returned from England, after making our first album, I was living in a little house, way up in Laurel Canyon. I think Roger McGuinn had lived there previously. It was one of those houses on stilts, and when the winds were high, the house would rock gently. It was sort of unsettling, but I got used to it after a while. Anyway, Glenn came over to write one day, and I showed him this unfinished tune that I had been holding for so many years. I said, "When I play it and sing it, I think of Ray Charles -- Ray Charles and Stephen Foster. It's really a Southern gothic thing, but we can easily make it more Western." Glenn leapt right on it -- filled in the blanks and brought structure. And that was the beginning of our songwriting partnership ... that's when we became a team. GLENN: It was only a day or two after we had been back from England with our first album. Don sat down at the piano and showed me this song he was working on, and it was the intro to "Desperado." Originally, it was written for a friend of his whose name was Leo. And so the song started out "Leo, my God, why don't you come to your senses. You've been out ridin' fences for so long now." We'd all been to the Troubadour to see Tim Hardin, and later the four of us, Jackson, J.D. Souther, Don, and myself went to somebody's house... it wasn't mine. I don't know if it was J.D.'s, but we went somewhere and started jamming. That's when the idea came together about us doing an album of all the angst-meisters [laughs]. It was going to be all of the antiheroes. James Dean was going to be one song, and the Doolin-Dalton gang was going to be another. The idea became "Desperado," and Don's Stephen Foster song acquired a new first line -- "Desperado... why don't you come to your senses?" That same week we wrote "Desperado" and "Tequila Sunrise." I think I brought him ideas and a lot of opinions; he brought me poetry -- we were a good team. SIDE TWO 1. ONE OF THESE NIGHTS DON: We'd started to explore our love of rhythm & blues and the Gamble & Huff records that came out of Philadelphia. We were also huge fans of Al Green. Glenn was the catalyst for this song. I think he sat down with a guitar and started playing that rhythm part [sings it]. It was another song from the "Lyin' Eyes" house. We like to call it our "satanic country-rock period" [laughs]. Because it was a dark time, both politically and musically, in America. There was turmoil in Washington and disco music was starting to take off. We thought, "Well, how can we write something with that flavor, with that kind of beat, and still have the dangerous guitars?" We wanted to capture the spirit of the times. So, perched up there on top of that hill, almost all night, every night, we had a big, phantasmagorical scene which included songwriting and, uh -- research. Lots of research. The song is a great showcase for high harmony. Meisner hit some notes that only dogs could hear. We also started getting into harmony parts on guitars that simulated horn riffs. It was a cool record. GLENN: We had Don Henley's voice, which allowed us to go in a more soulful direction, which made me exceedingly happy. There's no doubt in my mind that One Of These Nights was the most fluid and "painless" album we ever made. A lot of things came together on One Of These Nights -- our love of the studio, the dramatic improvement in Don's and my songwriting. We made a quantum leap with "One Of These Nights." It was a breakthrough song. It is my favorite Eagles record. If I ever had to pick one, it wouldn't be "Hotel California"; it wouldn't be "Take It Easy." For me, it would be "One Of These Nights." 2. TEQUILA SUNRISE DON: I believe that was a Glenn title. I think he was ambivalent about it because he thought that it was a bit too obvious or too much of a cliché because of the drink that was so popular then. I said "No -- look at it from a different point of view. You've been drinking straight tequila all night, and the sun is coming up!" It turned out to be a really great song. The changes that Glenn came up with for the bridge are very smart. That's one song I don't get tired of. "Take another shot of courage" refers to tequila -- because we used to call it "instant courage." We very much wanted to talk to the ladies, but we often didn't have the nerve, so we'd drink a couple of shots and suddenly it was, "Howdy, ma'am." GLENN: I love the song. I think the goal of any songwriter is to make a song appear seamless, to never show the struggle. Nothing should sound forced. "Tequila Sunrise" was written fairly quickly, and I don't think there's a single chord out of place. 3. TAKE IT TO THE LIMIT GLENN: I just remember being very happy for Randy. We had tried, unsuccessfully, to get a piece of material for him -- or from him -- that might be a hit single, or turn into one. I don't think we ever consciously tried to make a hit single. We finally succeeded with "Take It To The Limit." That's the first Eagles single to sell a million copies. It was our first gold single, maybe our only gold single. People always tended to buy our albums instead. We still had hit records, but they wouldn't sell through as 45s much. We had a lot of #1s, but I know that "Take It To The Limit" was our first gold single. And when Randy would sing it in Japan -- it was mass hysteria [laughs]. 4. PEACEFUL EASY FEELING GLENN: Well, it reminded me so much of Poco. Compared to the original recording, it's evolved through live performances to where it's a bit of a different animal now. Back then, Poco was the band that impressed me most. Their vocals were pristine and perfect. They were the band I wanted to model us after. We loved all the singing bands -- The Byrds and The Beach Boys -- but to be honest, right then I had my eye on Poco... and I wanted to go beyond them too. Ironically, we'd have two bass players over the years, both from Poco. "Peaceful Easy Feeling" had a happy, country-rock quality but a bittersweet irony about it that I thought was really great. I still love that song. Love singing it. 5. THE BEST OF MY LOVE DON: A lot of the lyrics were actually written in Dan Tana's at a booth we liked to sit in, on the front side of the bar area. J.D. Souther wrote the bridge and it was perfect. That was the period when there were all these great-looking girls who didn't really want to have anything to do with us. We were just scruffy new kids who had no calling card. We could be cocky at times -- which was really just a front -- but we weren't very sophisticated or confident. We were typical, frustrated, young men. We wanted the girls to like us, but we had all the immature emotions that young men have -- jealousy, envy, frustration, lust, insecurity, and the lot. At the same time, however, we were also becoming quite adept at brushing off girls who showed any interest in us. "If you want to be with me, I can't possibly give you the time of day. I want that girl over there who couldn't care less if I live or die." Hence the line in "Desperado": "You only want the ones that you can't get." We knew ourselves even then. Even in our immaturity we had some insight into our flawed little characters [rueful laughter]. Shaw was right -- "Youth is wasted on the young." GLENN: I was playing acoustic guitar one afternoon in Laurel Canyon, and I was trying to figure out a tuning that Joni Mitchell had shown me a couple of days earlier. I got lost and ended up with the guitar tuning for what would later turn out to be "The Best of My Love." ___________________________________________ REVIEW by Ben Davies, allmusic Despite being a rather inconsistent act, the Eagles were one of the most successful rock bands of the '70s. Made up of five fine musicians (each with unquestionably superb vocal talent), the band blended impressive but often simple music with mellow vocal harmonies. This 1985 release attempts to collect the best tracks from the seven Eagles albums prior to this compilation. While it does succeed in compiling 13 of the finer songs, there are a few exclusions that are detrimental to the album. Greatest Hits clearly retains the Eagles magic that permeated their finer moments, however. For those unfamiliar with the Eagles' music, this release will open eyes as to why the band is so revered. Opening with the fresh sounding "Take It Easy," the album goes from strength to strength and only takes a small drop in quality over the final few tracks. Greatest Hits portrays the band's career with reasonable accuracy, dropping much of the dross that is featured on other Eagles compilations, and because of this will please those looking for a bare minimum collection. TRACKS: Side One 1 Take It Easy (Jackson Browne/Glenn Frey) - 3:29 2 Witchy Woman (Don Henley/Bernie Leadon) - 4:10 3 Lyin' Eyes (Henley/Frey) - 6:21 4 Already Gone (Jack Tempchin/Rob Strandlund) - 4:13 5 Desperado (Henley/Frey) - 3:33 Side Two 1 One of These Nights (Henley/Frey) - 4:51 2 Tequila Sunrise (Henley/Frey) - 2:52 3 Take It to the Limit (Randy Meisner/Henley/Frey) - 4:48 4 Peaceful Easy Feeling (Jack Tempchin) - 4:16 5 Best of My Love (Henley/Frey/J.D. Souther) - 4:35 Eagles #Eagles #donhenley #GlennFrey #randymeisner

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We know these are difficult times for everyone and we hope you are staying healthy and positive! A lot of things have changed during these uncertain times. You’ll notice a new face tomorrow night when you tune in to our virtual concert at 7:00 PM EST Peter, our Bass / Keyboard player resigned for personal reasons and we warmly welcome a great new addition, Graeme Paul as our new band mate!

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We are honoured to be a part of and are really looking forward to kicking off the City of Vaughan's #concertsinthepark this year - with a twist! VIRTUAL concerts start Oct 21st at 7PM EST - tune in for some of the best Eagles music #hotelcalifornia #rockymountainway #TheHeartOfTheMatter #desperado #takeiteasy and more! We hope to see you there #eaglestribute #epiceagles Thank you Continental Entertainment!... (LINK BELOW ) https://www.vaughan.ca//concerts_in_the/Pages/default.aspx See more

Today’s play station with the boys in Epic Eagles tribute band. Virtual show to be broadcasted October 21 through the city of Vaughan. #theatre #eaglestribute #cityofvaughan #rockshow #concert #socialdistancing #virtualconcert #tributeband

Today we celebrate the 41st anniversary of The Eagles' album "The Long Run!" What are some of your favorite songs?

We had a blast Cyndi Turner Promotions ! Thank you again for having us and for the hospitality The BLVD - We look forward to seeing you all again!

The American and Canadian Horseshoe Falls will be illuminated red tonight, September 1st, in appreciation of the live events industry. Niagara Falls will be j...oining over 1500 venues from across North America to raise public awareness of the devastating impacts from COVID-19 on this industry and it's workers. This is in response to the #RedAlertDayofAction which seeks to draw attention to the 12 million people that work in the live events industry who are currently unemployed due to the pandemic. A second illumination will take place on September 22nd. See more

Hey everyone - We hope you are all doing well! For those of you who don't know, our drummer Jeff has a very successful #hotsauce company and this year he has been accepted on #DragonsDen Congratulations Jeff Salem what a fantastic opportunity!

One of the great venues we had the pleasure of performing for in 2019 Thank you again Brockville Ribfest! Some cool shots shared by the audience Big Brothers Big Sisters of Leeds and Grenville https://epiceagles.com/photos ... #liveconcert #ribfest #Brockville #Leeds #Grenville #eaglestribute See more

Thank you to Rob RM83DESIGNS | Rob for sharing this! https://www.instagram.com/sto/highlights/17856006668096788/ Barrie, Ontario #Barrie We had a blast with you all today! Thank you so much for coming out to share some great #eaglesmusic with us and for being such a great audience. We appreciate you!... Thank you Sunset Barrie Drive-in Benefit Campaign for having us out to support such a fantastic cause Children's Wish/Make-A-Wish Canada Children's Wish Foundation of Canada, Ontario Chapter Moxie's Grill & Bar & Comfort Inn - Barrie for the wonderful hospitality! #charity #children #eaglestribute See more

We can't wait to kick off the first drive-in #concert for #charity / #benefit Children's Wish/Make-A-Wish Canada Children's Wish Foundation of Canada, Ontario ...Chapter #makeawish #children See you all soon! BTW - Thanks to Martin Paquette for clarifying with the venue "Is this a "stay in the car event" or can we lawn chair it in our space?" - - IT IS A - - In car or chairs within allocated parking spot. See more

Thanks for sharing Jeff & thank you again Jack Sauer for sharing your videos! We thoroughly enjoyed our evening with the wonderful folks of #Welland #Ontario at the Concerts on the Canal #epiceagles #eaglestribute #livemusic Continental Entertainment