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Speaker 1: Let Me tell You a Story Time Cleary releases the

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Speaker 1: story behind the song on this day.

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Speaker 2: In nineteen seventy five, the Eagles released their fourth album,

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Speaker 2: One of These Nights. Line Eyes was the second single

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Speaker 2: off that album. It was written by Don Henley and

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Speaker 2: Glen Fry and recorded in nineteen seventy five, with Fries

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Speaker 2: singing lead vocals. It was the second single from their

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Speaker 2: album One of These Nights. It reached number two on

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Speaker 2: the Billboard Hot one hundred chart and number eight on

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Speaker 2: the Billboard Country chart. See this is what you didn't

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Speaker 2: just invent the crossover post Malone amazing.

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Speaker 3: They Where were they?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 3: Or Taylor?

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Speaker 2: It remained their only top forty country hit until how Long.

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Speaker 2: In two thousand and seven, they got a Grammy for

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Speaker 2: Lion Eyes and were nominated for Record of the Year.

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Speaker 3: So just what is it about?

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Speaker 1: It's all about the song that was kept off the

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Speaker 1: number one spot by Ireland Girl by Elton John.

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Speaker 4: Of all that, my god, I wouldn't have been happy by.

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Speaker 2: The Island Girl's eyes were a line again.

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Speaker 1: They went line, well, let's dig date, we'll stop why

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Speaker 1: hearing from management and you know some of their producers

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Speaker 1: who marveled how Glenn Fry and Don Hendley worked together

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Speaker 1: as a songwriting team.

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Speaker 5: And I've watched the creative process with lots of other people,

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Speaker 5: but I've never seen it the way it fell in

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Speaker 5: place with them.

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Speaker 4: I remember watching Lion Eyes written.

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Speaker 5: Glenn just had a way of coming up with a phrase,

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Speaker 5: you know, he had written some kind of a tune

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Speaker 5: and they were sitting in Tana's one night and looking

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Speaker 5: at some young girl with an older guy at the bar,

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Speaker 5: and Glenn said, look at those lion eyes, and just like.

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Speaker 4: That, Wow, there's the song.

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Speaker 5: It was just about all these girls who'd come down

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Speaker 5: to Dan Towna's looking beautiful, and they'd be there from

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Speaker 5: eight o'clock to midnight and have dinner and drinks with

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Speaker 5: all of us rockers.

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Speaker 1: And then they go home because they were kept women.

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Speaker 2: Whim the Dan Town is talking about is their favorite

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Speaker 2: restaurant slash bar in Los Angeles, and they said they'd

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Speaker 2: go down there to perve on beautiful women, of course,

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Speaker 2: but they.

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Speaker 3: Would, you know, see all these women.

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Speaker 2: That they assumed were cheating on their husbands, just you know,

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Speaker 2: just because a beautiful woman is with an older, not

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Speaker 2: as attractive man, just not and because.

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Speaker 3: She didn't want to go home with you.

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Speaker 1: This isn't automatically means didn't say hanging out with us rockers.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it didn't automatically mean she was doing the dirty

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Speaker 2: on her hubby.

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Speaker 3: Maybe not, but they were pretty convinced in this case.

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Speaker 4: They were maybe she was a gold digger.

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Speaker 3: What did he say?

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Speaker 2: What did I believe? One said to the other said, Henley,

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Speaker 2: she can't even hide.

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Speaker 4: Those lines, and that was the start of the song.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is about the woman in question, who was beautiful,

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Speaker 2: but with the older less attractive primarily man and beauty

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Speaker 2: is in the eye of the behold.

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Speaker 4: Rearly a Glenn Fry song. Let's be honest that don

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Speaker 4: helped out a little bit.

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Speaker 1: Now I'm writing a lot of songs up there in

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Speaker 1: the spot and the Beverly Hills area, which was just incredible.

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Speaker 2: Me thinks that he might have been rejected by said

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Speaker 2: beautiful occasions rapped to their table.

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Speaker 3: Maybe there's peanuts and drink.

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Speaker 2: So if she can't even hide those.

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Speaker 4: Lying eyes because they were kept women women, Yeah, so

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Speaker 4: there you.

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Speaker 3: Go this statement, I'd love to be a kept woman.

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Speaker 4: A little bit of the story behind Yeah it is, Well,

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Speaker 4: there's down there now.

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Speaker 1: I'll take you to Dan Turner's Yeah yeah, with the

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Speaker 1: boys from the Eagles, the late Glen Frye, and he

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Speaker 1: was there was only the only song he sang alone

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Speaker 1: on that album all those years ago, which was such

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Speaker 1: a huge album.

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Speaker 4: But it was pre Hotel California. So I would imagine

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Speaker 4: those where those women were.

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Speaker 1: Well and truly zeroed in on the boys because they

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Speaker 1: knew that they had the money, that.

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Speaker 2: The Hotel California sounds better than Hotel dan Tana quite possibly.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, the one of them place, one of these nights,

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Speaker 1: such a place of rejection.

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Speaker 2: They actually recorded the song just a little bit further

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Speaker 2: to our behind the song moment there.

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Speaker 3: In Dorothy Lemore's old house.

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Speaker 4: Isn't that amazing?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Well, she was in the road Trip movies with Crosby.

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Speaker 4: And Home, wasn't she she was?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, those houses and so many of those houses have

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Speaker 1: so many famous owners in the beaver Are Hills.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely