Eagles - I Can't Tell You Why b/w The Greeks Don´t Want No Freaks (1980)

"I Can't Tell You Why" is a song by the American rock band Eagles, which appeared on their 1979 album The Long Run. It was written by band members Timothy B. Schmit, Glenn Frey, and Don Henley. Recorded in March 1978, it was the first song finished for the album and the first Eagles song to feature Schmit on lead vocals. 

Released as a single in February 1980, it became a Billboard top 10 hit in April of that year, reaching number eight on the Billboard Hot 100.

Timothy B. Schmit came up with the song title and composed the nucleus of "I Can't Tell You Why", which he then presented to Glenn Frey and Don Henley and they completed the song together. Henley described the finished song as "straight Al Green", and that Frey, an R&B fan as he came from Detroit and grew up with the music, was responsible for the R&B feel of the song. Frey said to Schmit: "You could sing like Smokey Robinson. Let’s not do a Richie Furay, Poco-sounding song. Let’s do an R&B song."

Schmit describes the song as "loosely based on my own experiences". Schmit said: "I had some writing sessions with Don and Glenn and I threw out a bunch of my ideas and that one [for "I Can't Tell You Why"] stuck. I had [composed] a pretty good part of it, not a huge part but enough for them to think 'That could be good' and go with it. So Don, Glenn and I finished it over a few all night sessions." "When it was being developed in the studio...I knew it was a great song. I [thought] 'Yes! This is an amazing debut for me.' When we finally mixed it, we had a little listening party at the studio. As people were hearing it, Don turned to me and said, 'There's your first hit.'"

Schmit sang the lead vocals on the song, with Frey and Henley singing counterpoint. Schmit also played the bass on the track, which has the distinctive bass riff believed by Schmit to have been devised by Frey. According to Henley, Frey came up with the counterpart on the song, and played the guitar solo on the song.

A - I Can't Tell You Why  (4:56) 

      Written-By – Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Timothy B. Schmit

B - The Greeks Don't Want No Freaks  (2:20)

      Written-By – Don Henley, Glenn Frey

Companies, etc.

• Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Asylum Records
• Marketed By – WEA Records B.V.
• Distributed By – WEA Records B.V.
• Lacquer Cut at – Dureco Benelux

Credits

• Lacquer Cut By – K (tracks: B)
• Producer – Bill Szymczyk

Notes

Release: 1980

Format:  Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Single

Genre:  Country Rock

Label:  Asylum Records

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wVK9WM7j6NOaPjS3S4CvW4BdM5wJn59_/view?usp=sharing

Faith Hope & Charity - Just One Look b/w Don´t Go Looking For Love (1976)

Faith Hope and Charity was the name of a vocal group from Tampa, Florida. 

They are best known for their 1975 hit, "To Each His Own". They were also an in-demand group of session singers in New York studios during the 1970s.

"Just One Look" is a song co-written by American R&B singers Doris Troy and Gregory Carroll. The recording by Doris Troy was a hit in 1963. The Hollies, Anne Murray and Linda Ronstadt recorded hit versions of their own. There have also been many other versions of this song.

Faith, Hope & Charity scored another hit in January 1976, reaching #38 in the UK Singles Chart with "Just One Look" (from their album, Faith, Hope & Charity). 

A - Just One Look  (3:57)

       Written-By – Payne, Carroll

B - Don't Go Looking For Love  (4:30)

        Written-By – McCoy

Companies, etc.

• Phonographic Copyright ℗ – RCA Records
• Produced For – White House Productions
• Published By – Angusa Music Ltd.
• Published By – Warner Bros. Music Ltd.
• Manufactured By – RCA Ltd.

Credits

• Producer, Arranged By, Conductor – Van McCoy

(From the "Faith Hope & Charity" album)

Notes

Release: 1976 

Format:  Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM

Genre:  Soul

Label - RCA Victor

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1f6oGGPCd2JdzhJeG30HCt__udH_cWnmD/view?usp=sharing

Fleetwood Mac - Rattlesnake Shake b/w Coming Your Way (1969)

"Rattlesnake Shake" is a song by British rock group Fleetwood Mac, written by guitarist Peter Green, which first appeared on the band's 1969 album Then Play On. The track was considered the high point of its parent album, and was one of the band's crowd-favorites in the late 1960s.

Although "Oh Well" was a hit in the UK, the song was not the group's first single released in the United States. Instead, Clifford Davis, who was Fleetwood Mac's manager at the time, selected "Rattlesnake Shake" to be released in the US since he thought it would become a big hit, but it did not chart anywhere. After the commercial failure of "Rattlesnake Shake", "Oh Well" was released as the second single, and subsequently became a hit on both sides of the Atlantic. Mick Fleetwood ranked the song in his top 11 favorite Fleetwood Mac songs of all-time list since he was able to participate in bringing out the character of the song.

According to Mick Fleetwood, the double-time shuffle near the end of the song was spun out of an improvised jam. "It incorporated the freedom to go off on a tangent, to jam – the classic ‘Do you jam, dude?’ We learned that as players. You hear that alive and well in the double-time structure that I put in at the end, which on stage could last half an hour. It was our way of being in The Grateful Dead."

In a Q&A, Peter Green admitted that "Rattlesnake Shake" was about masturbation, reckoning that the lyrical content was inspired by Fleetwood. Fleetwood would later back up this claim in his 2014 autobiography "Play On", stating that "Rattlesnake Shake" is an ode to masturbation as a cure for the blues. "I'm named in it, as a guy who does the rattlesnake shake to jerk away my sadness whenever I don't have a chick. That was an appropriate immortalisation of my younger self..." To achieve the rustling noises heard at the end of each chorus, Green found it appropriate to insert the sounds of an actual rattlesnake found on an audio tape.

A - Rattlesnake Shake  (3:24)

      Written-By – P. A. Green

B - Coming Your Way  (3:45)

      Written-By – D. Kirwan

Companies, etc.

• Pressed By – Artone Holland

Credits

• Producer – Fleetwood Mac

Notes

Release: 1969

Format:  Vinyl, 7", Single

Genre:  Blues Rock

Label:  Reprise Records

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BFqgEjIYdqLLj2ZLb91GSKmBfdF-BMbq/view?usp=sharing