Songs you wished you could switch lead vocals

[YoungEaglesFan]

I've been looking through old threads at discussions about underrated songs and ranking your favorite albums but something I haven't seen is a thread dedicated to Eagles songs you wish someone else had sang lead on. Hearing Glenn sing TITTL made me think about this more. Me personally I'd like to hear Glenn sing some of dons songs like best of my love or wasted time. I'd like to hear his smoother voice on that stuff. What about you guys?

[Pippinwhite]

Hey YEF -- I think there is such a thread, because I think I've posted on it. LOL. I'm sure one of our diligent moderators can merge this thread with the current one if that's the case.

Having said that, I love hearing Glenn sing "Desperado". There's a clip from 1984 when he was on the Letterman show where he sings it. It's on YouTube.

If I could hear Glenn sing "One of These Nights," along with "You Never Cry Like a Lover," I'd be a happy camper, for sure.

[thelastresort]

Though my favoruite Glenn lead vocals are amongst his softer ones (New Kid in Town and Tequila Sunrise), I think he had a brilliant rocking voice (see Out of Control and the superb Somebody) and I don't think he ever got to properly unleash the latter after the Henley takeover began. On that basis, I would have loved to hear Glenn have a go at something like Life in the Fast Lane or Victim of Love.

(I do love Joe's version of Take It to the Limit though, he has a wonderfully delicate voice when he wants it.)

[BillBailey1976]

"The Henley takeover" I like that phrase.
I have always wondered about that. I know in "History" Glenn plays it off like he wanted to sing less...but I just don't know that I believe that.
The thing that didn't make sense was the way he talks about his vocal participation getting less...and then makes the comment "We had Don Henley". That would have made sense if Henley were a recent addition. But he'd been there since the beginning. They'd always had Don Henley.
Was there Label pressure, band pressure, management pressure?

[scottside]

I think Don Henley became a better singer as time went on with each successive album. The other thing is that he has a natural "grit" to his voice that Glenn doesn't have and maybe Glenn thought it best to have Don sing those songs that benefited by that edge. It's really hard to say for sure, but I think Glenn would've done a great job on a number of those more rocking songs. Maybe they wouldn't have been quite the same, but they would've worked out fine.

[UndertheWire]

I don't think it's a coincidence that the "Henley Takeover" followed their first #1 which was sung by Henley. This followed on four singles which didn't chart highly (Tequila Sunrise, Outlaw Man, Already Gone, James Dean) and were all sung by Glenn.

[BillBailey1976]

Hey YEF -- I think there is such a thread, because I think I've posted on it. LOL. I'm sure one of our diligent moderators can merge this thread with the current one if that's the case.

Having said that, I love hearing Glenn sing "Desperado". There's a clip from 1984 when he was on the Letterman show where he sings it. It's on YouTube.

If I could hear Glenn sing "One of These Nights," along with "You Never Cry Like a Lover," I'd be a happy camper, for sure.

Didn't Glenn do "Desperado" on Live in Dublin?

[Pippinwhite]

BB1976 -- Yep, he sings it on the Live in Dublin album, too. Forgot about that.