Single:
Best of My Love entered the Australian singles chart* on 24 March 1975 and peaked at #14. The song was #83 on the Top 100 of 1975.
Album:
The song is on On the Border which entered the Australian albums chart* on 10 June 1974 and peaked at #27.
Songwriters:
Don Henley, Glenn Frey, JD Souther
Producer:
Glyn Johns
Record label of Australian release:
Asylum
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
Live from the Capital Centre in Landover, Maryland in 1977:
Songfacts:
Best Of My Love is often played at weddings and anywhere else one wants to demonstrate affection, but it’s really a breakup song: “You see it your way, and I see it mine, and we both see it slipping away.” No happy ending here, just a guy who gave it his best, but things didn’t work out.
According to Don Henley, who sings lead on the track, he, JD Souther and Glenn Frey wrote some of the lyrics over libations at the Los Angeles restaurant Dan Tana’s, where they were regulars. There, they studied women and relationships. Henley says they were “typical, frustrated, young men” at the time.
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/eagles/best-of-my-love
Lyrics:
Every night, I’m lying in bed
Holding you close in my dreams
Thinking about all the things that we said
And coming apart at the seams
We try to talk it over
But the words come out too rough
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