“Wasted Time” closes side one on your old vinyl copy of the Hotel California LP. Wasted Time Eagles Well baby, thereC you standFm6 C/GWhit your little head, down in your F/Ghand FOh, my God, you C/Ecan't believe it's Dmhappening C/Eagain FYour baby's gone, and you're C/Eall alone And it Dmlooks like the G7end. In the late ‘90s Norman rose to the position of president of Warner/Reprise Records Nashville. The strings were arranged by Jim Ed Norman, who was an old college buddy of Don Henley’s in Texas and later the keyboard player for the Eagles founding member’s very first band Felicity.
Don’s singing abilities stretched so many of our boundaries. You’re not going to find that track on a Crosby, Stills & Nash record or Beach Boys record. We did a big Philly-type production with strings – definitely not country rock. He could stand out there all alone and just wail. That feeling that you get when you know its over just prior to the official end.
I sent for some sheet music so I could learn some of those songs, and I started creating my own musical ideas with that Philly influence. Frey later explained on the liner notes for The Very Best Of The Eagles: “I loved all the records coming out of Philadelphia at that time. ti:wasted time ar:eagles al:319686 by: 00:05.10Wasted time 00:17.94Well baby there you stand 00:25. This is Don Henley and Glenn Frey’s attempt at a Philly-soul torch song.
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