I got 95% of my information from Wikipedia.org. A website that has a bad reputation, but I've always found it to be mostly accurate.
The Eagles sixth CD, "The Long Run", it was released on September 24th, 1979. "The Long Run" came 3 years after their most popular CD "Hotel California". " While that CD has some good songs on it, I've always preferred "The Long Run". It was also their last CD until 2007's "The Long Road Out Of Eden". "The Long Run" has sold over 8 million copies and is probably one of the Top 250 best selling CDs ever. Also "Heartache Tonight" won the Eagles the Grammy for The Best Rock Performance by a Duo of Group With Vocal.
One thing that Wikipedia seems to have inaccurate is: When released in September 1979, The Long Run debuted at number two on Billboard's Pop Albums chart and a week later hit number one. However on another Wikipedia.org site that says Led Zeppelin's "In Through The Out Door" is listed as the number CD from September 15th to October 27th. According to that site "The Long Run" wasn't #1 until November 3rd. According to that site it then was #1 through the end of 1979. It was replaced by Donna Summer's "On The Radio: Greatest Hits Volumes 1 & 2".
What did Rolling Stone say about "The Long Run" when it was originally released. This is an excerpt of the full review:
"The Long Run, the Eagles first album in three years, is a chilling and altogether brilliant evocation of Hollywood’s nightly Witching Hour, that nocturnal feeding frenzy first detailed by Warren Zevon on his haunting Asylum debut (Warren Zevon, 1976) and the equally powerful Excitable Boy. Both Zevon and the Eagles have employed the desperado and the ghoul as antiromantic symbols of the star caught in the devil’s bargain. And both eventually came to realize that they had to give up the guise of observers and confess their roles as participants.
The Eagles live and thrive in a town where rock & roll is the foremost fame machine. Commercially, they’ve risen as high as a band possibly can, and yet, as individuals, they still have trouble getting in touch with a girlfriend, with any true comfort or satisfaction, with their own dreams. Their backyard is a thicket of fast cars, witchy women, outrageous parties and wasted time, so their perspective on the maw is doubtlessly an informed one.
Since their first LP in 1972, the Eagles have been adept at portraying the dark side of stardom, the sordid milieu of its beneficiaries and the various modus operandi used to secure notoriety. From Eagles‘ “Chug All Night,” “Most of Us Are Sad” and “Take the Devil,” through all of Desperado, to “James Dean” and “Good Day in Hell” on On the Border and the title tracks of One of These Nights and Hotel California, the themes of evil exhilaration, dissolution and despair that attend tinseled glory were relentlessly hammered home. These recurring themes finally reached their apex in the song whose title has since become synonymous with high living and self-destruction: “Life in the Fast Lane.”"
For the full review go to this website:https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/the-long-run-252619/
Who were the members of the Eagles when this CD was released?:
- Don Felder – guitars, organ, backing vocals
- Glenn Frey – guitars, keyboards, vocals
- Don Henley – drums, percussion, vocals
- Timothy B. Schmit – bass guitar, vocals
- Joe Walsh – guitars, keyboards, vocals
Other CDs that were released in September, 1979 include Kool & The Gang "Ladies Night", Aretha Franklin's "La Diva", Foreigner's "Head Games", Cheap Trick's "Dream Police", Santana's "Marathon" and Sammy Hagar's "Street Machine".
The three CDs preceding "The Long Run" were Donna Summer's "Bad Girls", The Knack's "Get A Knack" and as previously mentioned Led Zeppelin's "In Through The Out Door".
1) "The Long Run":
2) "I Can't Tell You Why":
I remember how scary "The Warriors" was back in the day, however now that movie is completely ridiculous. The best thing about that movie is this song.
3) "In The City": (Joe Vitale played the congas on this track):
3) "In The City": (Joe Vitale played the congas on this track):
This song was a direct reaction to disco, which was at the beginning of its end. Although no one knew that at the time. This CD was released only a few months after July 12th, 1979's Disco Demolition Drive:
4) "Disco Strangler":
5) "King of Hollywood":
6) "Heartache Tonight": (Bob Seger sang backing vocals on this track).
7) "Those Shoes":
8) "Teenage Jail":
9) "The Greeks Don't Want No Freaks":
10) "The Sad Cafe" (David Sanborn played alto saxophone on this track.):
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