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The Eagles - One Of These Nights (1975)
Album
Artist/Composer The Eagles
Length 42:50
Format CD
Genre General Rock; Alternative Country
Label Asylum
Index 735
Collection Status In Collection
Packaging Jewel Case
Musicians
Drums and Percussion Don Henley
Banjo Bernie Leadon
Bass Guitar Randy Meisner
Guitar-Electric Bernie Leadon
Guitar-Electric Don Felder
Guitar-Electric Glenn Frey
Keyboards-Various Glenn Frey
Unlisted Instrument Don Felder
Vocals Bernie Leadon
Vocals Don Felder
Vocals Don Henley
Vocals Glenn Frey
Vocals Randy Meisner
Credits
Engineer Don Wood
Engineer Ed Mashal
Engineer Michael Braunstein
Engineer Michael Verdick
Engineer Allan Blazek
Engineer Bill Szymczyk
Producer Bill Szymczyk
Track List
01 One Of These Nights 04:47
02 Too Many Hands 04:41
03 Hollywood Waltz 04:01
04 Journey Of The Sorcerer 06:37
05 Lyin Eyes 06:22
06 Take It To The Limit 04:47
07 Visions 03:56
08 After The Thrill Is Gone 03:56
09 I Wish You Peace 03:43
Personal
Links Amazon Canada
Amazon US
Details
Spars DDD
Rare No
Sound Stereo
UPC 075596060158
Notes
Balance is the key element of the Eagles’ self-titled debut album, a collection that contains elements of rock & roll, folk, and country, overlaid by vocal harmonies alternately suggestive of doo wop, the Beach Boys, and the Everly Brothers. If the group kicks up its heels on rockers like "Chug All Night," "Nightingale," and "Tryin’," it is equally convincing on ballads like "Most of Us Are Sad" and "Train Leaves Here This Morning." The album is also balanced among its members, who trade off on lead vocal chores and divide the songwriting such that Glenn Frey, Bernie Leadon, and Randy Meisner all get three writing or co-writing credits. (Fourth member Don Henley, with only one co-writing credit and two lead vocals, falls a little behind, while Jackson Browne, Gene Clark, and Jack Tempchin also figure in the writing credits.) The album’s overall balance is worth keeping in mind because it produced three Top 40 hit singles (all of which turned up on the massively popular Eagles: Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975) that do not reflect that balance. "Take It Easy" and "Peaceful Easy Feeling" are similar-sounding mid-tempo folk-rock tunes sung by Frey that express the same sort of laid-back philosophy, as indicated by the word "easy" in both titles, while "Witchy Woman," a Henley vocal and co-composition, initiates the band’s career-long examination of supernaturally evil females. These are the songs one remembers from Eagles, and they look forward to the eventual dominance of the band by Frey and Henley. But the complete album from which they come belongs as much to Leadon’s country-steeped playing and singing and to Meisner’s melodic rock & roll feel, which, on the release date, made it seem a more varied and consistent effort than it did later, when the singles had become overly familiar.