1974 Top Ten: Best of My Love (#9)
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (68084)
United States
May 23, 2024 10:58am CST
Must be getting close to a three-day weekend: the gas prices jumped sixty cents overnight. 
Ha, I have a full tank, so there! 
I’m also not going anywhere, so it doesn’t matter. I will, however, take you on a trip back to 1974, where there was some great music. You’ve seen that all month, and now I’m celebrating my ten favorites from that year. Believe it or not, this song is now 50 years old.
#9: Best of My Love - Eagles
But of course these guys would show up! They showed up as backing singers earlier (on the Joe Walsh song), and they’re going to show up as background vocalists again before the month is out!
This was the first Eagles song to hit #1. It had what they call “crossover appeal,” charting in country, easy listening, rock, and pop.
A song about breaking up (with all the break-up songs Don Henley’s written over the years, I find it amazing that he’s been married for nearly 30 years now 
) with those lilting harmonies, it still sounds good today.
Best of My Love
Written by Don Henley, Glenn Frey, and J.D. Souther
Recorded by the Eagles
From On the Border, 1974
You see it your way, I see it mine:
Ha, I have a full tank, so there! I’m also not going anywhere, so it doesn’t matter. I will, however, take you on a trip back to 1974, where there was some great music. You’ve seen that all month, and now I’m celebrating my ten favorites from that year. Believe it or not, this song is now 50 years old.
#9: Best of My Love - Eagles
But of course these guys would show up! They showed up as backing singers earlier (on the Joe Walsh song), and they’re going to show up as background vocalists again before the month is out!
This was the first Eagles song to hit #1. It had what they call “crossover appeal,” charting in country, easy listening, rock, and pop.
A song about breaking up (with all the break-up songs Don Henley’s written over the years, I find it amazing that he’s been married for nearly 30 years now ) with those lilting harmonies, it still sounds good today.
Best of My Love
Written by Don Henley, Glenn Frey, and J.D. Souther
Recorded by the Eagles
From On the Border, 1974
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@Tampa_girl7 (50256)
• United States
23 May
Love me some Eagles. If they were to do a movie of my high school years the Eagles songs would definitely be the soundtrack for it.
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@FourWalls (68084)
• United States
24 May
You and 2/3 of the other people would either have the Eagles, Elton John, or The Bee Gees for the soundtrack of their teenage years. Or all three.
@changjiangzhibin89 (16762)
• China
24 May
It is a pity I can't open the youtube link ! You have very good taste in music.
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@FourWalls (68084)
• United States
24 May
Thank you for the compliment about my music tastes. 
You probably can’t open the video link because our respective governments want to make sure we aren’t swapping secrets disguised as music notes in a 50-year-old song. 
You probably can’t open the video link because our respective governments want to make sure we aren’t swapping secrets disguised as music notes in a 50-year-old song. 2 people like this
@TheHorse (218921)
• Walnut Creek, California
24 May
@FourWalls If you play Best of My Love backwards, there may be all sorts of messages in there, encrypted in both written Chinese and spoken English.
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@FourWalls (68084)
• United States
24 May
I like to boast about Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth, the drummer and bass player for Talking Heads. They’ve been married 47 years.
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@FourWalls (68084)
• United States
24 May
@JudyEv — yes indeed, although they’re more enjoying each other’s company now. They do still put things together in the studio. (I follow Chris on Facebook, and he keeps us updated!)
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@JudyEv (340210)
• Rockingham, Australia
24 May
@FourWalls That is a long time! I guess they've been performing for most of those years?
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@LindaOHio (178877)
• United States
24 May
Absolutely. Have a good day and an even better long weekend.
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@FourWalls (68084)
• United States
24 May
Phew, thought the steel guitar might hurt your head. 
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@LindaOHio (178877)
• United States
25 May
@FourWalls Yeah, but it's the Eagles!!!
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@RasmaSandra (79892)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
23 May
Yep, yep, yep love the songs and the Eagles, Great music,
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@FourWalls (68084)
• United States
24 May
Can’t disagree with you on either point. 
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@FourWalls (68084)
• United States
24 May
They probably thought so, too (until it went to #1, that is). This was the album where they fired the producer of their first two albums because he wasn’t letting them “rock” any.
I can drive down to the base at Fort Knox and get it for about 70c less.
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@TheHorse (218921)
• Walnut Creek, California
24 May
@FourWalls I got some gas at the station near my dentist's office the other day. It was about 30 cents cheaper than at my local discount station.
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@FourWalls (68084)
• United States
24 May
@TheHorse — this was just holiday price gouging. It happened during spring break, before the Derby, and before the PGA Championship.
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@FourWalls (68084)
• United States
24 May
See? You know this. That’s why Adso is creeping at you from behind the computer monitor.
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@dgobucks226 (35615)
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7 Jun
One of my all-time Eagles favorites. Of course, I say that about so many of their songs, lol. JD had a contributing hand on this tune. Souther's contributions as a collaborator with the band is truly amazing. He lent an assist on so many great Eagles tunes. 
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@Scarred4Lyfe (609)
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23 May
Nope, can't say as I recollect hearing this one before.
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@Charlesbronson (954)
• Indonesia
24 May
I love the Eagles song, hotel california.
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@Charlesbronson (954)
• Indonesia
24 May
@FourWalls I'll try to search for it, thanks..
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@FourWalls (68084)
• United States
24 May
Glad you know it! I love harmonies, so this definitely appealed to me.
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