release date for the song i can't tell you why the eagles

The Detroit-bred Frey, who had deep roots in soul music, took the lead – literally. Let's do an R&B song.' He said, 'Sure, love to try!'' Let's not do a Richie Furay, Poco-sounding song. I said, 'You could sing like Smokey Robinson. 'Timothy joined the band and the real challenge, as Don and I saw it, was to get a piece of material for him that wasn't country,' Frey told Cameron Crowe in 2003. They wanted to push Schmit in the same direction, crafting an R&B-infused setting for his embryonic ideas. Schmit established his country-rock credentials while with Poco, but by the late-'70s the Eagles had long since left those rootsy sounds behind. 'I was the guy just trying to make things okay. 'I think probably the friction was part of the creativity. Schmit felt like he had good reason to be optimistic. Don Henley and Glenn Frey both made key contributions, as the Eagles completed the first song on what would become 1979's The Long Run. For a moment in time, often-contentious band members rallied around the outsider.

Release date for the song i can't tell you why the eagles