I Love To Watch a Woman Dance

Album: Long Road Out Of Eden (2007)
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Songfacts®:

  • Glenn Frey sings lead on this gentle ballad where he's entranced by a woman dancing to a slow song. By the end of the song he's dancing with her, but when the music stops, they part ways, leaving him titillate but confused.

    The song was written by Larry John McNally, who released the original version on his 1999 album Dandelion Soul. On his website, McNally gives the background to this song: "I was in Amsterdam for the first time and had a night free. I wandered over to the music club Paradiso which is one of the coolest music venues anywhere. It's an old church with the altar as the stage with big stained glass windows behind it. That night there was a Gypsy band playing and the room was swirling. Girls from all over the world in a fever dance! I went back to my hotel and started writing this song."
  • Don Henley learned about this song in 1999 when he recorded Larry John McNally's song "For My Wedding" for his 2000 solo album Inside Job. He and Glenn Frey were starting work on a new Eagles album but moving at a glacial pace; the group's last studio album was The Long Run in 1979. Henley and Frey called McNally in 1999 to let him know they might be recording it.

    "That was certainly an exciting call," McNally told Songfacts. "Eight years went by before it was released with zero communication from the band. My moods swung between high hopes and despair. Finally in July 2007 there was a bootleg of Glenn singing the song at a solo show and mentioning that it 'might' be on the new Eagles album. It was, and done very nicely I must say. That may be the last triple-platinum album I hang on my wall."

    That album was Long Road Out Of Eden, a double album that went to #1 in America.

Comments: 1

  • Danny from Your Town, Iablah...phewy...uck....this isn't the Eagles I remember. Bring back Felder and get back to basics.
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