LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-MARCH 22, 2020…BACK IN 1974 THE EAGLES RELEASED THEIR 3RD STUDIO ALBUM ‘ON THE BORDER’. HERE ARE SOME QUICK NOTES ON THE ALBUM:
-THREE SINGLES WERE RELEASED FROM THE RECORD ‘ALREADY GONE’ ‘JAMES DEAN’ AND ‘BEST OF MY LOVE’
-THE SINGLE ‘BEST OF MY LOVE’ WAS #1 ON BOTH THE BILLBOARD HOT 100 AND ADULT CONTEMPORARY CHART
-‘ON THE BORDER REACHED #17 ON THE BILLBOARD TOP 200 LP’s CHART
-FOR THIS ALBUM, GLENN FREY INSISTED THE BAND BRING IN GUITARIST DON FELDER TO ADD SLIDE GUITAR TO THE SONG ‘GOOD DAY IN HELL’. THE BAND INVITED FELDER TO BECOME THE FIFTH EAGLE. THEY CREDITED HIM AS A LATE ARRIVAL ON THE ALBUM’S LINER NOTES
-’ON THE BORDER’ HAS NOW SOLD THREE MILLION COPIES AND COUNTING
HERE’S A PERFORMANCE OF ‘BEST OF MY LOVE’ FROM 1977. THE HARMONIES WILL BLOW YOU AWAY