Top 10 Randy Meisner Songs

From: ‘Legacy’ (1989)

This was a make-good second for Meisner, whose vocals had been unceremoniously erased from Poco’s 1969 debut album after an acrimonious cut up. Twenty years later, he was singing with that very same reunited lineup, and so they hit the Prime 40 with this tune, co-written by Richard Marx for what would turn out to be Poco’s second gold-selling album.

From: ‘One in all These Nights’ (1975)

Co-written with Don Felder, who’d simply turn out to be an official member of the Eagles, “Too Many Fingers” features a sensible twist on an outdated non secular trope – and, in line with Felder’s arrival, one of many last lengthy strides away from the pastoral country-rock sound that had beforehand dominated the band’s albums. Felder tangles with Glenn Frey on a dueling guitar-dominated outro, whereas Don Henley fortunately bangs away on the tablas.

From: ‘Randy Meisner’ (1978)

A mini-Eagles reunion of types, “Unhealthy Man” was co-written by Meisner’s longtime former bandmate Glenn Frey and the group’s common collaborator J.D. Souther. It was additionally featured on the soundtrack to 1978’s FM, which included their onetime boss Linda Ronstadt, too. Elsewhere on his debut solo launch, Meisner makes one other move at “Take It to the Restrict” (which exhibits up in a while our checklist of Prime 10 Randy Meisner Songs).

From: ‘Randy Meisner’ (1982)

Coronary heart’s Ann Wilson joins Meisner on a stunning transforming of “Strangers,” a hard-to-find reduce from Elton John’s calmly regarded years working with Gary Osborne as an alternative of Bernie Taupin. (This tune initially appeared because the B-side of the title-track single from John’s disco-focused 1979 album Sufferer of Love.) However “Strangers” could not push Meisner’s second self-titled album any greater than No. 94, and he hasn’t launched an album of latest materials since.

From: ‘Resort California’ (1976)

A hovering anthem about believing in opposition to all odds, this was Meisner’s last co-writing credit score (and his last lead vocal) with the group he co-founded. “Attempt to Love Once more” can also be reportedly the one Resort California reduce that is by no means been carried out dwell by the Eagles, an indication of issues to come back. Meisner was at all times uncomfortable with fame, and as his band went supernova within the late ’70s, he made an inevitable sprint for the exit.

From: ‘On the Border’ (1974)

Meisner appears to be channeling George Harrison to nice impact as a part of an album that additionally included his banjo-driven tackle Paul Craft’s “Midnight Flyer.” There’s an fascinating juxtaposition between gentle and darkish on this reduce, (which served as a B-side to the Prime 40 hit “Already Gone”), as Glenn Frey’s scalding activate slide works in distinction to the melancholy sweetness of Meisner’s vocal.

From: ‘Randy Meisner’ (1978)

A heartfelt tune of romantic confusion, “Daughter of the Sky” reanimates the light shyness of Meisner’s earliest Eagles songs – pointing the way in which for what might have been a profitable solo profession. However Meisner by no means took to the highlight, as an alternative spending a lot of the period earlier than his retirement working as a sideman. His best-known work was alongside the likes of James Taylor, Dan Fogelberg, Richard Marx and former bandmates Joe Walsh and Richie Furay.

From: ‘Desperado’ (1973)

Meisner co-wrote the twilit “Saturday Night time” together with Don Henley (who sings lead right here), and memorably steps ahead for his personal flip on the mic through the tune’s lonesome bridge (“She stated inform me; oh, inform me …”). Glenn Frey and Bernie Leadon, who add some lush backing vocals, are additionally credited as co-writers.

From: ‘Eagles’ (1972)

This last observe on the Eagles’ country-tinged debut album does greater than trace at the place they’d ultimately land towards the tip of Meisner’s tenure. “Tryin'” — with its rumbling hook, eruptive guitar and transient closing vocal reference to the Rolling Stones’ “You Can’t At all times Get What You Need” — was a palette-clearing blast of harder-edged rock.

From: ‘One in all These Nights’ (1975)

Any hopes Meisner had of staying safely within the shadows ended with the No. 1 observe on our checklist of the Prime 10 Randy Meisner Songs. “Take It To the Restrict” rose to No. 4, the Eagles’ highest-charting place on the time, placing further stress on him to hit the tune’s emotional excessive word onstage night time after night time. Panic apparently started to creep in, and Meisner reportedly requested that the tune – regardless of its huge recognition – be faraway from the band’s units. When the remainder of the Eagles refused, Meisner give up. The vocal was later taken over by Glenn Frey.