The acoustic and slide guitars, the vocal harmonies, the sparse bass lines, and the barely-there percussion – it all fits perfectly. Don Henley pleads with a former lover and you can hear the desperation in his voice. Direct from California’s legendary Laurel Canyon, “Best of My Love” was one of the top songs of 1975 and was the group’s first number one single. This laid-back, country-flavored soft-rocker is almost a ballad, but not quite.
“Best of My Love” – Eagles Released November 1974Ĭhart Peak: #1 Billboard Hot 100 on March 1, 1975 You know Mare was spinning these 45s, when she wasn’t complaining about the price of beef. I loved those educational tunes, as well as these ten soft rock hits from that pivotal year. However, I was able to understand conjunctions, verbs, and nouns thanks to Schoolhouse Rock. I loved Saturday morning cartoons, like Hong Kong Phooey and Super Friends, but didn’t quite understand the double entendres of game shows like Match Game or Tattletales. In 1975, Mary Tyler Moore was going to make it after all, and I was a precocious fourth grader, playing sports in the local YMCA league.
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