1972 Songs: Take It Easy
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (86652)
United States
July 18, 2022 11:18am CST
Get out the Geritol. The entire month’s look at songs that are fifty years old this year has basically been built around THIS song. You turn on a radio today and you’re probably going to hear this one. It’s the epitome of a “classic rock song,” and it’s completely timeless. And here, directly from 1972, it is.
Take It Easy - Eagles
I had a rough night, and I hate the [bleeping] Eagles, man.
(Dude, The Big Lebowski)
Aw, c’mon, Dude, lighten up! 
The first Eagles hit is 50 years old now. There’s a group, “Don Henley and Friends,” out there right now, playing this song every night on a tour that celebrates the 46-year-old Hotel California album.
That’s what good music does, though. We’re standing on a corner at the Standing on the Corner Park in Winslow, Arizona (if you didn’t know, this song is so engrained in popular culture that there is a city park in Winslow built around the reference in this song), young and carefree. And Glenn Frey is still alive, leading the celebration.
We have hopefully learned not to let the sound of our own wheels drive us crazy.
Take It Easy
Written by Glenn Frey and Jackson Browne
Recorded by the Eagles
From Eagles, 1972
(Today’s 1982 song: ‘Shock the Monkey”)
One says she’s a friend of mine:
The first Eagles hit is 50 years old now. There’s a group, “Don Henley and Friends,” out there right now, playing this song every night on a tour that celebrates the 46-year-old Hotel California album.
That’s what good music does, though. We’re standing on a corner at the Standing on the Corner Park in Winslow, Arizona (if you didn’t know, this song is so engrained in popular culture that there is a city park in Winslow built around the reference in this song), young and carefree. And Glenn Frey is still alive, leading the celebration.
We have hopefully learned not to let the sound of our own wheels drive us crazy.
Take It Easy
Written by Glenn Frey and Jackson Browne
Recorded by the Eagles
From Eagles, 1972
(Today’s 1982 song: ‘Shock the Monkey”)
One says she’s a friend of mine:
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@FourWalls (86652)
• United States
18 Jul 22
I called Ripley’s Believe It or Not, they don’t believe it!
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@thislittlepennyearns (68246)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
18 Jul 22
I don't hate the Eagles and I love this song.
I do however hate U2.
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@FourWalls (86652)
• United States
19 Jul 22
Oh, you’ll love this meme on Facebook: “Everybody hates U2, they just said they liked U2 because they thought everybody else did.” (I don’t hate U2, but I think they are way overrated.)
(I don’t hate U2, but I think they are way overrated.)
@GreatMartin (23670)
• Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
18 Jul 22
And here I am listening to Merman BELTING out every word of "Everything is Coming Up Roses"
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@FourWalls (86652)
• United States
19 Jul 22
I always think of Robin Williams impersonating Merman in Good Morning Vietnam, saying she was being used to jam Soviet radar.
@FourWalls (86652)
• United States
19 Jul 22
It definitely deserves its classic status!
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@FourWalls (86652)
• United States
19 Jul 22
See? I’m not all weirdness. Just 97.5%.
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@LindaOHio (222310)
• United States
20 Jul 22
@FourWalls You are NOT weird. Our tastes are just different.
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