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Eagles released Peaceful Easy Feeling, the third single from their debut self-titled album, on Dec. 1, 1972. But it wasn t a member of the band who could take credit for penning the tune, which reached No. 22 on the
Billboard Hot 100 and eventually become one of the band s most successful songs. Instead, that honor belongs to Jack Tempchin, a local California songwriter and friend of Glenn Frey s. Jackson Browne and Glenn Frey and J.D. Souther were friends of mine already from the Troubadour, Tempchin told Songfacts. I was staying with Jackson, and Glenn Frey came over to Jackson s house and heard me playing this song. I put it down on a cassette for him, and he came back the next day and said, I ve got a new band. We ve been playing with Linda Ronstadt, but now we re putting together our own band. We ve had it together for eight days. We worked up your song and here s how it sounds. And that s as far as it went.