The No1 song in the US on this day, November 12th 1979, was Heartache Tonight by Eagles from the album The Long Run. It was their fifth and final No1 in the US and would peak at No40 in the UK. Don Henley and Glenn Frey wrote this with Bob Seger and J.D. Souther. When Frey was a 19-year-old in Detroit, Seger took him under his wing and got his music career started. Souther, who is sometimes considered an Unofficial Eagle, was the first person Frey met when he moved to Los Angeles in the late-60s. J.D. Souther says how this song started: Glenn Frey and I had been listening to Sam Cooke records at my house. So we were just walking around clapping our hands and snapping fingers and singing the verses to those songs. The melody sounds very much like those Sam Cooke shuffles. Theres not much to it. I mean, its really just two long verses. But it felt really good. Bob Segers contribution to this song was the chorus. We didnt get to a chorus that we liked within the first few days, and I think Glenn was on the phone with Seger, and he said, I wanna run something by you, and sang it to him, and Seger just came right in with the chorus, just sang it and it was so good. Glen called me and said, Is four writers okay on this? And I said, Sure, if its good. And he said, Yeah, its great. Seger just sang this to me, and he sang it to me and I said, Thats fantastic. The Long Run was the Eagles last studio album until they re-formed in 1994. There was a lot of tension in the band, and a lot of pressure to make the album perfect. As a result, they spent 3 1/2 years working on the album, which was the follow-up to Hotel California. Frey later explained to Rolling Stone that he learned from the experience: All one need do was listen to early Stones records to realize that all this striving for perfection is totally unnecessary. The song won a Grammy for Best Rock Vocal Performance By A Duo Or Group. I could not find an early 80s live version of this so heres the current Eagles live with Heartache Tonight..... Enjoy!
Posted on: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 17:17:56 +0000
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