| "Take It to the Limit" | ||||
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&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Take_it_to_the_Limit.jpg) European picture sleeve, mistitling "Take It To the Limit" as "Take It To the Limits" | ||||
| Single by Eagles | ||||
| from the album One of These Nights | ||||
| B-side | "After the Thrill Is Gone" | |||
| Released | November 15, 1975 | |||
| Recorded | 1975 | |||
| Length | 4:48 (album version) 3:48 (single version) | |||
| Label | Asylum | |||
| Songwriter(s) | ||||
| Producer(s) | Bill Szymczyk | |||
| Eagles singles chronology | ||||
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"Take It to the Limit" is a song by Eagles from their fourth album One of These Nights from which it was issued as the last third single on November 15, 1975. It reached No. 4 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and was also Eagles' greatest success to that point in the United Kingdom, going to No. 12 on the charts. Billboard ranked it as the No. 25 song for 1976.[1]
The song, written by Eagles members Randy Meisner, Don Henley and Glenn Frey began as a solo composition by Meisner, who sang lead on it. As it remained unfinished when time came for the One of These Nights album to be recorded, Henley and Frey assisted Meisner in completing it. Meisner's performance of the song was popular with the audience in Eagles concerts, but disputes over his reluctance to perform it would also directly lead to Meisner's departure from the band.