TEQUILA SUNRISE
THE EAGLES
SONGWRITERS:
DON HENLEY & GLENN FREY
WHERE:
LIVE ABC 1973
COUNTRY: U.
S. A.
ALBUM: DESPERADO
LABEL:
ASYLUM
GENRE: COUNTRY
ROCK
YEAR: 1973
"Tequila Sunrise"
is a 1973 song written by Don Henley and Glenn Frey, and recorded by the Eagles.
It was the first single from the band's second álbum Desperado. The song peaked
at number 64 on the Billboard Hot 100.
A cover version was
recorded by country music singer Alan Jackson on the 1993 tribute album Common
Thread: The Songs of the Eagles. It peaked at number 64 on the Billboard Hot
Country Singles & Tracks chart.
Glenn Frey and Don Henley
did not write songs together for their debut álbum Eagles, and they decided
that they should collaborate after they had finished recording the debut album.
According to Frey, he was lying on a couch playing the guitar, and came up with
a guitar riff he described as "kinda Roy Orbison, kinda Mexican". He
showed Henley the guitar riff and said: "Maybe we should write something
to this." The title refers to a cocktail named Tequila Sunrise that was
then popular. In the liner notes of 2003's The Very Best Of, Henley had this to
say about the song:
I believe that was a Glenn title. I
think he was ambivalent about it because he thought that it was a bit too
obvious or too much of a cliché because of the drink that was so popular then. I said, 'No-Look at it from a
different point of view. You've been drinking straight tequila all night and
the sun is coming up!' It turned out to be a really
great song.
The Eagles are an American
rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1971. The founding members were Glenn Frey(guitars,
vocals), Don Henley(drums, vocals), Bernie Leadon(guitars, vocals) and Randy
Meisner(bass guitar, vocals). With five number-one singles, six Grammy Awards,
five American Music Awards, and six number-one albums, the Eagles were one of
the most successful musical acts of the 1970s. At the end of the 20th century,
two of their albums, Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975) and Hotel California, were
ranked among the 20 best-selling albums in the United States according to the Recording
Industry Association of America. By 2006, both albums were among the top three
best-selling albums in the United States. Hotel California is ranked 37th in Rolling
Stone's list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" and the band
was ranked number 75 on the magazine's 2004 list of the 100 Greatest Artists of
All Time.
It's another tequila sunrise
Stirrin slowly across the sky
Said goodbye
He was just a hired hand
Workin on the dreams he planned to try
The days go by
Every night when the sun goes down
Just another lonely boy in town
And she's out runnin round
She wasn't just another woman
But man I couldn't keep from comin on
It's been so long
Whoa and it's a hollow feelin
When it comes down to dealin friends
It never ends
Take another shot of courage
Wonder why the right words never come
You just get numb
It's another tequila sunrise
And this old world still looks the same
Another frame.
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