The Long Run is the sixth studio album by Eagles, released in 1979 (see 1979 in music). This was the first Eagles album not to feature founding member Randy Meisner, who was replaced by Timothy B. Schmit.
The album was originally intended to be a double album to be released in 1978 but was instead demoted to a single album. Some of the tracks that were left off the album would be cobbled together to compose the cut "Long Run Leftovers" which appe...
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The Long Run is the sixth studio album by Eagles, released in 1979 (see 1979 in music). This was the first Eagles album not to feature founding member Randy Meisner, who was replaced by Timothy B. Schmit.
The album was originally intended to be a double album to be released in 1978 but was instead demoted to a single album. Some of the tracks that were left off the album would be cobbled together to compose the cut "Long Run Leftovers" which appeared on the band's 2000 box set Selected Works: 1972-1999. Some of the bits in "Long Run Leftovers" were resurrected by Joe Walsh on "Rivers (Of the Hidden Funk)" from 1981's There Goes the Neighborhood and "Told You So" on 1983's You Bought It, You Name It.
Also, the band recorded a Christmas single during the sessions. First of which was a cover of "Please Come Home For Christmas" by Charles Brown, which was released as a single in November 1978. The song's B-side was a Don Henley and Glenn Frey original called "Funky New Year" which was the...
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