Glenn Frey calls himself “the greatest singer I have ever worked with”

For example, let’s take stock of the songs from their greatest hits package. Given his presence up front, Frey has some classics to his credit, like “Lyin’ Eyes” and “Take It Easy,” and he even managed to get some of the group’s other surprise hits to radio, like “Already Gone.”

Randy Meisner even appeared on “Take it to the Limit,” but the rest of their best songs belong to Henley. Aside from a few lesser-known hits like “New Kid in Town,” everything from “Desperado” to “Witchy Woman” to “Hotel California” comes from Henley’s voice, which usually made the most of his tenor voice, despite being a natural baritone.

Although it was natural for the group to change vocals on each recording, Frey had no problem calling Henley the absolute best of them, saying in Life in the fast lane, “Don Henley is a rock and the best singer I’ve ever worked with. Randy is the perfect icing on the cake.”

In fact, Frey ended up liking Henley’s voice so much that he almost tried to cut other band members from the songs. When discussing replacing Don Felder’s vocals on “Victim of Love” with Henley’s, Frey even put himself under fire on the lead vocals, saying: History of the Eagles, “If you look back (at that time), I sang less and less. That was intentional. We had Don Henley.”

On the other hand, Frey may not give the other members enough credit for their group harmonies. While no one would easily argue that Joe Walsh was the band’s best singer, hearing each of their voices harmonize on “Seven Bridges Road” or “No More Walks in the Wood” from their last album was one of the most exciting experiences of their career until Frey’s death in 2016.

Even after the band split, it’s no surprise that Henley became the group’s star, producing classics such as “The End of the Innocence” and “The Boys of Summer” alongside Walsh as a soloist. The main focus of any Eagles album is usually the harmonies, but if you had to analyze the technical ability of each singer, anyone not named Henley would inevitably be fighting for second place.

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