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One of These Nights (1975)

Where the lyrics of One of These Nights take you, and where it was really made.

The record that made the Eagles international superstars was also the last album with Bernie Leadon, who left the band after its tour.

Key places

Recorded at Criteria Studios in Miami (1975)

Recording site Criteria Studios — The album's recording location is listed as Criteria Studios in Miami, Florida. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Recorded at the Record Plant in Los Angeles (1975)

Recording site Record Plant (Los Angeles) — The album's recording location is also listed as the Record Plant in Los Angeles, California. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• One of These Nights: fourth studio album by the American rock band the Eagles
• Released June 10, 1975 by Asylum Records
• Commercial breakthrough that turned the band into international superstars
• In July 1975 it became the Eagles' first number one album on the Billboard Top LPs & Tape chart
• Yielded three Top 10 singles: "One of These Nights", "Lyin' Eyes" and "Take It to the Limit"
• Last Eagles album with the original lineup of Randy Meisner, Glenn Frey, Don Henley and Bernie Leadon, plus new member Don Felder

Background

• Work on the fourth album began in late 1974
• Frey and Henley wrote four of the nine songs by themselves and collaborated with other members on three more
• Many songs were written while Frey and Henley shared a house in Beverly Hills
• Henley joked that the period was a satanic country-rock phase, describing a dark time both politically and musically in America
• Henley said they wanted to keep dangerous guitars while writing with a disco-era beat
• Frey called the album the most fluid and painless one the band had made
• Leadon grew increasingly unhappy during the sessions because of the band's move toward a harder rock direction
• Leadon left the band in late 1975, after the album came out, and was replaced by Joe Walsh
• Frey sang solo lead on only one song, "Lyin' Eyes", and shared lead on "After the Thrill Is Gone" with Henley

Recording

• Recording locations are listed as Criteria Studios in Miami, Florida, and Record Plant in Los Angeles, California
• Don Felder sang lead on "Visions", the only Eagles song on which he took lead vocals
• Randy Meisner sang lead on two songs, and "Take It to the Limit" was released as the third single

Cover

• The cover uses an artwork by Boyd Elder, also known as El Chingadero
• Gary Burden, who designed the band's three previous albums, worked on this cover, the last Eagles album design he was involved in
• The album cover received a Grammy nomination for Best Album Package

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• The Eagles are an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1971.
• Founding members were Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Bernie Leadon, and Randy Meisner, all first recruited as musicians for Linda Ronstadt.
• They signed to David Geffen's Asylum Records in September 1971.
• The name was reportedly suggested by Leadon, though accounts vary.

Members

• Founding members: Glenn Frey (guitar, vocals), Don Henley (drums, vocals), Bernie Leadon (guitar, vocals), Randy Meisner (bass, vocals).
• Don Felder joined in 1974 as guitarist; Joe Walsh replaced Leadon in 1975; Timothy B. Schmit replaced Meisner in 1977.
• Frey died in January 2016; Meisner died in July 2023.

Career

• The band has five number-one singles and six number-one albums in the US, and six Grammy Awards.
• Estimated sales exceed 200 million records worldwide; inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998.
• Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975) and Hotel California are among their best-selling albums.
• The band broke up in 1980, reunited in 1994 for Hell Freezes Over, and released Long Road Out of Eden in 2007.
• The band announced a farewell tour in 2023 and held a Sphere residency in Las Vegas from 2024.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• Stephen Holden of Rolling Stone, in an early review of the album, expressed a liking for the album but did not consider it a great album
• Holden praised the band's ensemble playing as unprecedentedly excellent but said they lacked an outstanding singer
• Holden called "After the Thrill Is Gone" the album's best ballad
• Holden called the instrumental "Journey of the Sorcerer" a bombastic track that should have been omitted
• The (New) Rolling Stone Album Guide judged it the band's most musically adventurous outing yet, flirting with disco on the title song

Reappraisal

• William Ruhlmann of AllMusic was more favorable in a retrospective review
• Ruhlmann wrote that the album was the culmination of the rock, country and folk blend the band had made since its start
• Ultimate Classic Rock critic Sterling Whitaker rated "One of These Nights" and "After the Thrill Has Gone" among the Eagles' 10 most underrated songs

Records

• Debuted on the US Billboard 200 at number 25 in its release week
• Climbed to number one in its fourth week on the chart and stayed there for the next four weeks
• First of four consecutive number one albums for the Eagles
• Title song became the group's second number one single on the Billboard Hot 100
• Received a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year
• "Lyin' Eyes" was nominated for Record of the Year and won the Eagles their first Grammy for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals at the 18th Annual Grammy Awards in 1976
• Certified quadruple platinum by the RIAA, signifying shipment of over four million copies in the United States

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• The original version from One of These Nights was used for all original transmissions of all five radio series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, with a further version used for the sixth
• Henley was annoyed that Patti Davis was given cowriting credit on "I Wish You Peace" and later said the song was not something the Eagles were proud of
• This is the second Eagles album to have a Quadraphonic surround sound pressing, released on Quadraphonic 8-track tape and CD-4 LP
• Boyd Elder's work used on this cover later appeared on the cover of the Their Greatest Hits album

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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