Bonus Song Thursday - The Eagles "Ol' 55"

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2015

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

It's Bonus Song Thursday on the Great Albums Podcast! In our previous episode we talked about Tom Waits and the impact he's had on others' careers thanks to their covers of his songs. So Bill and Brian take a closer look at the Eagles version on "Ol' 55," originally released on Waits' debut album, Closing Time, in 1973. We discuss the Eagles as a dad band, their use of harmony, soft rock radio, and how covering other's songs fits in the world of rock and roll.

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0:00.0	Well, my time went so quickly, I went so quickly, I went lickickety Splitly
0:21.7	Out to my
0:24.1	old
0:25.4	55
0:26.3	As I pull
0:30.1	away slowly
0:31.9	Feeling so
0:34.2	holy
0:35.3	God knows I was Feeling alive I was feeling alive
0:40.3	And now the sun's coming up
0:46.3	I'm riding with lady look
0:53.3	Freeway car Hi, in with lady luck,
1:07.4	Freeway cars and trucks, stars beginning to fade.
1:15.4	Hello, welcome to the great albums podcast, bonus song Thursday. I am Bill.
1:20.1	And I'm Brian. And you were just listening to The Eagles Old 55.
1:23.1	Dedicated to our friend Scott Camer.
1:29.1	And you may be wondering to yourself, dear listener, why are we talking about the Eagles?
1:38.3	Because on bonus song Thursday, what we usually do is take a song from the same artist of that week's episode proper,
1:45.1	where we do a full album length deep dive into an artist.
1:47.5	And Monday, we were doing Tom Waits.
1:51.6	Yeah, so Brian, why are we doing the Eagles?
2:01.9	Well, Bill, because the Eagles covered this song, Old 55, and turned it into a hit.
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