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"Take It to the Limit" is a song by the Eagles from their fourth album ''One of These Nights'' from which it was issued as the third single on November 15, 1975. It reached #4 on the U.S. ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and was also the Eagles' greatest success to that point in the UK, going to #12 on the charts. ''Billboard'' ranked it as the No. 25 song for 1976.〔Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1976〕 The song was written by Eagles' members Randy Meisner, Don Henley and Glenn Frey. Meisner, who sang lead on it, says the song began as his solo composition. As it remained unfinished when time came for the ''One of These Nights'' album to be recorded, Henley and Frey assisted Meisner in completing it. ==Eagles' recording== "Take It to the Limit" is unique in the canon of the band's singles, being the sole A-side on which Randy Meisner sang lead, as well as the first A-side Eagles single on which neither Henley nor Frey sang lead. It was also the last Eagles single to feature founding member Bernie Leadon before he was replaced by guitarist Joe Walsh. The single version of the song is 3:48 in length, almost a minute shorter than the album version. "Take It to the Limit" is one of few Eagles' tracks written in waltz time. ("Hollywood Waltz", another ''One of These Nights'' tracks, the Meisner/Henley/Frey waltz "Saturday Night" (co-written with Leadon) from the 1973 ''Desperado'' album, and "Pretty Maids All in a Row" on the 1976 album ''Hotel California'' were other notable waltzes performed by the Eagles.) Meisner left the band after their ''Hotel California'' tour in September 1977. According to the Eagles biography, ''To the Limit: The Untold Story of the Eagles'', the song was a source of great contention between Frey and Meisner during the tour because Frey maintained that the fans loved Meisner's hitting the high notes at the end of the song. According to Joe Walsh, Meisner enjoyed performing the song, but was not fond of being told he had to sing it. During one of Meisner's last performances as an Eagle, Frey had a physical altercation with him backstage over the performance of the song. The song was revived for the Eagles' late 1999 shows at Los Angeles' Staples Center. At those shows, as well as the Eagles' ''Farewell 1 Tour'' in 2004 and 2005 and on subsequent tours, the song was sung by Glenn Frey. The song was redone on Meisner's first solo album (''Randy Meisner''), with 1970s teen idol David Cassidy singing backing vocals. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Take It to the Limit (Eagles song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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