• Writers: Randy Meisner, Don Henley, and Glenn Frey
• Producer: Bill Szymczyk
• Recorded: Late 1974/early 1975 at Criteria Studios in Miami and the Record Plant in Los Angeles
• Released: June 28th, 1975 (album); January 17th, 1976 (single)
• Players:
  Randy Meisner — vocals, bass
  Glenn Frey — guitar, vocals
  Bernie Leadon — guitar, vocals
  Don Felder — guitar, vocals
  Don Henley — drums, vocal
  Jim Ed Norman — piano
• Album: One of These Nights (Asylum, 1975)
• Also On:
  Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975 (Elektra/Asylum, 1976)
  Eagles Live (Elektra/Asylum, 1980)
  Selected Works 1972-1999 (Elektra, 2000)
  The Very Best Of The Eagles (WSM, 2003)
• “Take It To The Limit” was a rare Eagles track sung and primarily written by a band member other than singer-drummer Don Henley or singer-guitarist Glenn Frey.
• Arguably founding bassist Randy Meisner‘s greatest moment in the band, “Take It To The Limit” peaked at Number Four on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
• The song was the fourth consecutive Top Five single for the Eagles.
• The recording of the One Of These Nights stretched over a then-unheard-of three months, and cost several hundred thousand dollars.
• One Of These Nights was the Eagles’ first Number One album on the Billboard 200.
• It was also their final album with founding guitarist Bernie Leadon, who had been at odds with the rest of the group over creative and lifestyle issues. The final straw came when Henley and Frey wouldn’t allow his girlfriend, then-California Governor Ronald Reagan‘s daughter Patti Davis, in the studio or grant her co writing credit on the song “I Wish You Peace.”

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• Meisner left the Eagles in 1978, at the conclusion of the Hotel California tour. He has been vocal about feeling slighted that he was not included in the group’s 1994 Hell Freezes Over reunion.
• The Eagles continue to perform “Take It To The Limit” despite Meisner’s absence.
• Meisner did re-join the band for their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction in 1998.
• The Eagles disbanded in 1981. All of the members went on to solo careers, with Henley being the most successful.

The group reunited in 1994 for an MTV special, a live album called Hell Freezes Over, and a two-year world tour.