Originally Posted by
chaim
There are Eagles songs that were started by another member, but later Don and Glenn helped finish. Off the top of my head "Certain kind of fool", "Hollywood waltz", "Take it to the limit", and "I can't tell you why" come to mind. I'm not including songs started by Felder, because we know that he didn't contribute lyrics. My question concerns those other songs. So:
Do we know what Don and Glenn contributed to those songs? Were they just lyrics, or did they contribute music too? We do know that Randy and Bernie wrote lyrics, so they didn't necessarily need Don and Glenn to help write them. And we also know (if it's true!) about Glenn's tendency, as claimed by Felder, sometimes to "change a word and gain a third". I know that Glenn's and Don's contribution to "Hollywood waltz" was just lyrics, because Bernie has said that they took the lyric to a metaphorical level. Bernie said that stuff like acacias blooming were originally meant literally, and he loved how Glenn and Don took it to another level.
So, those other songs...do we know how much Glenn and Don contributed?
Also, in the Farewell I DVD Glenn says about "TITtL" that it's a song he and Don wrote. I find that a bit irritatingHowever, in History Of the Eagles Glenn says that Randy started it.