1976 Songs: New Kid in Town

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How about this! Two different decades, two different artists, and you’ll know who both of them are!!! Remember this day, especially toward the end of the month. Enjoy the respite! Can you believe that, on December 8 of this year, this album will officially turn 50 years old? And it’s still selling! New Kid in Town - Eagles Yeah, my favorite Eagles song (“The Last Resort”) is on this album, but I decided to go with the “big hit” (let me rephrase that: the big hit that isn’t “Hotel California ). Fun fact: this song is about Bruce Springsteen. They wrote it about all of the hoopla that surrounded Springsteen when Born to Run came out in 1975. (For you kids who don’t know what magazines are, Springsteen was on the cover of news magazines Time and Newsweek the same week, hailed as “the future of rock and roll.”) To paraphrase Poco’s big hit, it happens all the time, this crazy love of critics. One of the biggest curses you could put on a singer/songwriter was labeling him/her “the next Bob Dylan.” Springsteen got tagged with that. Thankfully, Bruce survived it, while people from John Wesley Harding to Steve Forbert faded as quickly as the ink in the article hailing them. So the notion that “they will never forget you ‘til somebody new comes along” is the warning to Bruce…and to everyone else who’s the “overnight sensation” today and a “where are they now” feature next week. New Kid in Town Written by Don Henley, Glenn Frey, and John David Souther Recorded by the Eagles From Hotel California, 1976 Great expectations, everybody’s watching you: