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“The Long Run” by The Eagles
From the album The Long Run (1979)
“The Long Run” by The Eagles appears on 46 radio countdowns from 17 stations between 1982 and 2026. It was first released in 1979 on the album The Long Run. Its best result is #122 on the 100.7 WZLX Firecracker 500 (2013). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #451 classic rock song of all time.
"The Long Run" gave the Eagles' 1979 album its title, and Asylum sent it out as a single that November, the middle of three: "Heartache Tonight", which went all the way to number one, came before it, and "I Can't Tell You Why" came next. Don Henley and Glenn Frey wrote it, and it's widely heard as a salute to Memphis and the Stax brand of rhythm and blues, with Henley singing lead and playing drums.
Everybody pitches in. Don Felder plays organ, he and Joe Walsh both play slide guitar, Frey is on guitar and Timothy B. Schmit on bass, and those four stack up the backing vocals. Bill Szymczyk produced and mixed it. It strutted up to number eight on the Hot 100 early in 1980, the same peak "I Can't Tell You Why" reached that spring.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
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