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The Eagles are an American rock music group that originally came together in Los Angeles, California in the early 1970s. Their early music was a hybrid of country and bluegrass instrumentation grafted onto the harmonies of California surfer rock, producing tender ballads and soft top-down country-flavored pop-rock about relationships, cars, and the wandering life. The originators of this genre were gifted singer/songwriters, among them Jackson Browne, J.D. Souther, and Warren Zevon. The Eagles took the singer-songwriter ethos to a group setting with increased emphasis on arrangements and musicianship, and the group's early sound became synonymous with the southern California country rock. On later albums the band dispensed with bluegrass instrumentation and gravitated to a more straight-ahead rock sound. Not one of the four group founders was a Californian by birth. Guitarist/keyboardist Glenn Frey (born November 6, 1948 in Detroit, Michigan) escaped Michigan's cold winters and musically stultifying frat and bar scene, bringing a rhythm and blues heritage. Drummer Don Henley (born July 22, 1947 in Gilmer, Texas) was nearly a college graduate, majoring in English literature. Guitarist/mandolinist/banjo player Bernie Leadon (born July 19, 1947, in Minneapolis, Minnesota) had a passion for country and bluegrass that shaped the band's early direction. Bassist Randy Meisner (born March 8, 1946 in Scottsbluff, Nebraska) was a car and cycle buff who preferred spending time with his family to playing bass in a rock and roll band. The band formed in 1971 when Linda Ronstadt's then-manager, John Boylan, extracted Frey, Leadon, and Meisner from their affiliations. They were short a drummer until Frey phoned Henley, a musician he'd met at the Troubadour in Los Angeles. The Eagles backed up Ronstadt on a two-month tour, then decided to become a band on their own. Their first album, Eagles, was filled with pure, sometimes innocent country rock; their second, Desperado, was themed on Old West outlaws and introduced the group's penchant for conceptual songwriting. To record their third album, On the Border, the group selected producer Glyn Johns, who had previously worked with Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, and The Who. The band wanted to rock, but Johns tended to extract the lush side of the band's double-edged music. After completing two thirds of the album with Johns, the band turned to Bill Szymczyk to produce the rest of the album. Szymczyk brought in Don Felder (born September 21, 1948 in Topanga, California) to add slide guitar to a song called "Good Day in Hell", and the band was blown away. Two days later, Felder became the fifth Eagle. On the Border yielded a #1 Billboard single in the song "Best of My Love", which hit the top on March 1, 1975. Their next album, One of These Nights, had an aggressive, sinewy rock stance. Between the album and the subsequent tour, Bernie Leadon left the group because he was disillusioned about the direction the band's music was taking. The group replaced Leadon with Joe Walsh (born November 20, 1947), a veteran of such groups as the James Gang and Barnstorm and a solo artist in his own right. The addition of Walsh made the group's aim perfectly clear: they wanted to rock. The title track from One of These Nights hit #1 on the Billboard chart August 2, 1975. By this time, the personalities inside the band would start clashing with each other, and there were plenty of inter-band fights. The group's next album, Hotel California in 1976, was about the pursuit of the American dream, 1970s style. Using California as a metaphor for the nation, the Eagles wrote about innocence ("New Kid in Town", a #1 hit in Billboard on February 26, 1977) and temptations ("Life In The Fast Lane" and the title track, a #1 hit in Billboard on May 7, 1977) of that pursuit. During the final leg of the ensuing tour, however, Randy Meisner decided he'd had enough hotel rooms in his seven years as an Eagle and left the band for the relative quiet of Nebraska to recuperate and instigate a solo career. The Eagles replaced Meisner with the man who had succeeded him in Poco, Timothy B. Schmit (born October 30, 1947). In February 1978, the Eagles went into the studio to produce their final studio album, The Long Run. That album took two years to make, but yielded the group's fifth and last #1 single in Billboard, "Heartache Tonight" (November 10, 1979). The tour to promote the album intensified personality differences between the band members, made worse when on the night of November 21, 1980, Henley was arrested when cocaine, Quaaludes, and marijuana were found in his hotel room after a nude 16 year old prostitute had drug-related seizures. Henley was also subsequently charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Following The Long Run tour, in 1980, the band went on hiatus, and all of them had solo careers of varying degrees of success. During the early 1990s, an Eagles country tribute album Common Thread was released. Travis Tritt insisted on having the Long Run-era Eagles in his video for "Take It Easy." After that video was complete in 1994 that the band, after years of speculation, reunited. That tour spawned a live album entitled Hell Freezes Over (after a quote from Henley who said that the group would get back together only when Hell froze over) and a single, "Get Over It". Controversy followed on September 12, 1996 when the band dedicated "Peaceful Easy Feeling" to Saddam Hussein at a United States Democratic Party fundraiser held in Los Angeles. In 1998, the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and during the induction ceremony, all seven former members played together on stage. Several subsequent reunion tours would follow, noted for their record-setting ticket prices. They were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2001. Shortly before their "Farwell Tour I" in 2002, Don Felder was fired from the group. See Winslow, Arizona for a unique tribute to The Eagles' song "Take It Easy". DiscographyAlbums
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"Take It Easy". In 1998, the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and during the induction ceremony, all seven former members played together on stage. Her second husband was the famous bass player Ray Brown. Together they adopted a child, Ray Brown, Jr. Controversy followed on September 12, 1996 when the band dedicated "Peaceful Easy Feeling" to Saddam Hussein at a United States Democratic Party fundraiser held in Los Angeles. In 1941 she married Benny Kornegay, but the marriage was later annulled. That tour spawned a live album entitled Hell Freezes Over (after a quote from Henley who said that the group would get back together only when Hell froze over) and a single, "Get Over It". She married twice. Travis Tritt insisted on having the Long Run-era Eagles in his video for "Take It Easy." After that video was complete in 1994 that the band, after years of speculation, reunited. Louis Blues, and Let No Man Write My Epitaph. During the early 1990s, an Eagles country tribute album Common Thread was released. She also appeared in the films Ride 'Em Cowboy, St. Following The Long Run tour, in 1980, the band went on hiatus, and all of them had solo careers of varying degrees of success. Ella Fitzgerald also appeared alongside Peggy Lee as an actress and singer in Jack Webb's jazz film Pete Kelly's Blues. Henley was also subsequently charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Porgy and Bess is the most notable of her many recordings with jazz legend Louis Armstrong, but the couple also recorded the very popular "Ella and Louis" which was so successful that Granz's Verve records asked them for the equally successful "Ella and Louis again". The tour to promote the album intensified personality differences between the band members, made worse when on the night of November 21, 1980, Henley was arrested when cocaine, Quaaludes, and marijuana were found in his hotel room after a nude 16 year old prostitute had drug-related seizures. Among the many partners and/or band leaders, like Oscar Peterson, Count Basie ("On the Sunny Side of the Street"), Joe Pass ("Speak love"), Dizzy Gillespie, the Tommy Flanagan Trio, she also sang together with the "other voice" of jazz, Billie Holiday (1957). That album took two years to make, but yielded the group's fifth and last #1 single in Billboard, "Heartache Tonight" (November 10, 1979). She performed concerts with the most important groups and soloists. Her role effectively was the "instrumentalist of voice". In February 1978, the Eagles went into the studio to produce their final studio album, The Long Run. With Ellington's band, Lady Ella (as she was now called by other singers) toured Europe and North America, classically opening their shows with the famous Ellington's hit "Take the 'A' train", of which she was one of the few to sing - in her unique way - the little known lyrics. Schmit (born October 30, 1947). Among her best known recordings was a series produced by Norman Granz of the songbooks of the great American popular composers, Harold Arlen, George Gershwin (with Nelson Riddle's orchestra), Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Johnny Mercer, and Duke Ellington. The Eagles replaced Meisner with the man who had succeeded him in Poco, Timothy B. Ella's later concerts were often enriched by some hilarious imitations of other singers: in particular, she was able to render quite perfectly Marilyn Monroe's voice and typical gestures, as well as Louis Armstrong's. During the final leg of the ensuing tour, however, Randy Meisner decided he'd had enough hotel rooms in his seven years as an Eagle and left the band for the relative quiet of Nebraska to recuperate and instigate a solo career. Started as a swing singer, she encompassed bebop, scat, and performed blues, bossa nova, samba, gospel, calypso, and Christmas songs. Using California as a metaphor for the nation, the Eagles wrote about innocence ("New Kid in Town", a #1 hit in Billboard on February 26, 1977) and temptations ("Life In The Fast Lane" and the title track, a #1 hit in Billboard on May 7, 1977) of that pursuit. She began her solo career in 1941. The group's next album, Hotel California in 1976, was about the pursuit of the American dream, 1970s style. When Chick Webb died in 1939, the band continued touring under the new name, "Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra.". By this time, the personalities inside the band would start clashing with each other, and there were plenty of inter-band fights. She recorded several hit songs with them, including "(If You Can't Sing It), You'll Have to Swing It", but it was her version of the nursery rhyme, "A Tisket A Tasket" that launched her to stardom. The title track from One of These Nights hit #1 on the Billboard chart August 2, 1975. She was noticed by Bardu Ali of Chick Webb's band, who persuaded Webb to hire her. She started singing with Webb's Orchestra in 1935, in Harlem's Savoy Ballroom. The addition of Walsh made the group's aim perfectly clear: they wanted to rock. Her singing debut was at age 16 in 1934 at the Harlem Apollo Theater, New York, in one of the earliest of its famous "Amateur Nights", which she won, adding fame to both the Apollo and herself. The group replaced Leadon with Joe Walsh (born November 20, 1947), a veteran of such groups as the James Gang and Barnstorm and a solo artist in his own right. She was left on her own as an orphan at age 14. Between the album and the subsequent tour, Bernie Leadon left the group because he was disillusioned about the direction the band's music was taking. She was born in Newport News, Virginia, USA and raised in Yonkers, New York. Their next album, One of These Nights, had an aggressive, sinewy rock stance. Gifted with a three-octave vocal range, she is noted for her purity of tone and "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing. On the Border yielded a #1 Billboard single in the song "Best of My Love", which hit the top on March 1, 1975. Ella Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 - June 15, 1996), also known as Lady Ella, was one of the most important jazz singers, and the winner of thirteen Grammy Awards. Two days later, Felder became the fifth Eagle. "Play an Ella ballad with a cat in the room, and the animal will invariably go up to the speaker, lie down and purr." - Geoffrey Fidelman (author of the Ella Fitzgerald biography, First Lady of Song). Szymczyk brought in Don Felder (born September 21, 1948 in Topanga, California) to add slide guitar to a song called "Good Day in Hell", and the band was blown away. she'll sound as modern 200 years from now." - Tony Bennett. After completing two thirds of the album with Johns, the band turned to Bill Szymczyk to produce the rest of the album. "Her recordings will live forever.. The band wanted to rock, but Johns tended to extract the lush side of the band's double-edged music. "She made the mark for all female singers, especially black female singers, in our industry." - Dionne Warwick. To record their third album, On the Border, the group selected producer Glyn Johns, who had previously worked with Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, and The Who. Toscanini, who said concerning singers, 'Either you're a good musician or you're not.' In terms of musicianship, Ella Fitzgerald was beyond category." - Duke Ellington. Their first album, Eagles, was filled with pure, sometimes innocent country rock; their second, Desperado, was themed on Old West outlaws and introduced the group's penchant for conceptual songwriting. "Her artistry brings to mind the words of the maestro, Mr. The Eagles backed up Ronstadt on a two-month tour, then decided to become a band on their own. There's nobody to take her place." - David Brinkley. They were short a drummer until Frey phoned Henley, a musician he'd met at the Troubadour in Los Angeles. "She had a vocal range so wide you needed an elevator to go from the top to the bottom. The band formed in 1971 when Linda Ronstadt's then-manager, John Boylan, extracted Frey, Leadon, and Meisner from their affiliations. "I didn't realise our songs were so good until Ella sang them." - Ira Gershwin. Bassist Randy Meisner (born March 8, 1946 in Scottsbluff, Nebraska) was a car and cycle buff who preferred spending time with his family to playing bass in a rock and roll band. "I call her the High Priestess of Song." - Mel Torme. Guitarist/mandolinist/banjo player Bernie Leadon (born July 19, 1947, in Minneapolis, Minnesota) had a passion for country and bluegrass that shaped the band's early direction. Download sample of "April in Paris" by Fitzgerald with Louis Armstrong. Drummer Don Henley (born July 22, 1947 in Gilmer, Texas) was nearly a college graduate, majoring in English literature. Download sample of "How High the Moon". Guitarist/keyboardist Glenn Frey (born November 6, 1948 in Detroit, Michigan) escaped Michigan's cold winters and musically stultifying frat and bar scene, bringing a rhythm and blues heritage. 1989 All That Jazz. Not one of the four group founders was a Californian by birth. 1986 Easy Living. On later albums the band dispensed with bluegrass instrumentation and gravitated to a more straight-ahead rock sound. 1983 Nice Work If You Can Get It. The Eagles took the singer-songwriter ethos to a group setting with increased emphasis on arrangements and musicianship, and the group's early sound became synonymous with the southern California country rock. 1983 Speak Love. The originators of this genre were gifted singer/songwriters, among them Jackson Browne, J.D. Souther, and Warren Zevon. 1982 The Best Is Yet to Come. Their early music was a hybrid of country and bluegrass instrumentation grafted onto the harmonies of California surfer rock, producing tender ballads and soft top-down country-flavored pop-rock about relationships, cars, and the wandering life. 1981 Ella Abraca Jobim. The Eagles are an American rock music group that originally came together in Los Angeles, California in the early 1970s. 1979 A Perfect Match. 1994 "Get Over It" #31 US. 1979 A Classy Pair. from Hell Freezes Over
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from The Long Run
1977 "Hotel California" #1 US, #8 UK. 1973 Take Love Easy. 1976 "New Kid in Town" #1 US, #20 UK. 1973 Newport Jazz Festival: Live at Carnegie Hall. from Hotel California
1975 "Lyin' Eyes" #23 UK. 1970 Ella in Budapest, Hungary. 1975 "One of These Nights" #1 US, #23 UK. 1970 Things Ain't What They Used to Be. from One of These Nights
1974 "Already Gone" #32 US. 1968 30 by Ella. from On the Border
1972 "Take It Easy" #12 US. 1966 Whisper Not. from Eagles
2000 Selected Works: 1972-1999 (box set) #109 US, US Sales: 1,000,000. 1964 Hello, Dolly!. 1994 Hell Freezes Over #1 US, #18 UK, US Sales: 7,000,000. 1963 These Are the Blues. 1994 The Very Best of The Eagles (1994) (European compilation) #4 UK. 1963 Ella and Basie!. 1984 The Best of the Eagles (European compilation) #8 UK. 1963 Sings the Jerome Kern Songbook. 2 (compilation) #52 US, US Sales: 11,000,000. 1963 Ella Sings Broadway. 1982 The Eagles Greatest Hits, Vol. 1962 Ella Swings Gently with Nelson. 1980 Eagles Live #6 US, #24 UK, US Sales: 7,000,000. 1962 Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson. 1979 The Long Run #1 US, #4 UK, US Sales: 7,000,000. 1962 Rhythm Is My Business. 1976 Hotel California #1 US, #2 UK, US Sales: 16,000,000. 1961 Ella Returns to Berlin. 1976 Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975) (compilation) #1 US, #2 UK, US Sales: 28,000,000. 1961 Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie!. 1975 One of These Nights #1 US, #8 UK, US Sales: 4,000,000. 1961 Ella in Hollywood. 1974 On the Border #17 US, #28 UK, US Sales: 2,000,000. 1960 Sings the Harold Arlen Songbook. 1973 Desperado #41 US, #39 UK, US Sales: 2,000,000. 1960 Sings Songs from Let No Man Write My Epitaph. 1972 Eagles #22 US, US Sales: 1,000,000. 1960 Hello, Love. 1960 Wishes You a Merry Christmas. 1960 Ella in Berlin: Mack the Knife. 1959 Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook. 1959 Sings Sweet Songs for Swingers. 1959 Get Happy!. 1958 Ella in Rome: The Birthday Concert. 1958 Sings the Irving Berlin Songbook. 1958 Ella Swings Lightly. 1958 Ella and Billie at Newport. 1957 Porgy and Bess. 1957 Like Someone in Love. 1957 Ella at the Opera House. 1957 Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook. 1957 Ella and Louis Again. 1956 Sings the Rodgers & Hart Songbook. 1956 Ella and Louis. 1956 Sings the Cole Porter Songbook. 1955 Songs from Pete Kelly's Blues. 1954 Songs in a Mellow Mood. 1950 Ella Sings Gershwin. |