EAGLES "HOLY GRAIL" WITCHY WOMAN ONE SIDED ACETATE WARNER BROTHERS
  £   63
  $   83

 


£ 63 Sold For
Mar 20, 2016 Sold Date
Mar 10, 2016 Start Date
£   10 Start price
16   Number Of Bids
  Great Britain Country Of Seller
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    THE EAGLES

 

WITCHY WOMAN

 

WARNER BROTHERS - ONE SIDED ACETATE  

 

 

FULLY PLAY TESTED ----->  NEAR MINT.

 


The guitarist Bernie Leadon first started writing "Witchy Woman" while he was a member of the Flying Burrito Brothers. After joining the Eagles, Bernie and Don Henley completed writing the song together, and it is only song that Henley wrote on the Eagles' debut album. The song was conceived while Don Henley was living in an old house near the Hollywood Bowl, with his flat mate, Henry Vine (aka 'Blitz'). Henley said of the origin of the song: Leadon came over one day and started playing this strange, minor-key riff that sounded sort of like a Hollywood movie version of Indian music — you know, the kind of stuff they play when the Indians ride up on the ridge while the wagon train passes below. It had a haunting quality, and I thought it was interesting, so we put a rough version of it down on a cassette tape. Henley also gave the song an R&B pulse in its music.
The inspiration for the title and lyrics about a seductive enchantresses came from a number of women, although Henley had one particular woman in mind - Zelda Fitzgerald whose biography he was reading while writing the song. According to Henley, he was suffering from flu with a very high fever and become semi-delirious, and every time the fever subsided, he would continue to read a book on the life of Zelda Fitzgerald, and the character in the song would be a mix of Zelda Fitzgerald along with amorphous images of girls he had met at the Whisky and the Troubadour.  Zelda, the muse behind her husband F. Scott Fitzgerald, was known as a wild, bewitching and mesmerizing "Flapper" of the Jazz Age and the Roaring Twenties, and is sometimes thought to be the model for the character of Daisy Buchanan in his novel, The Great Gatsby. In "Witchy Woman", the line "She drove herself to madness with the silver spoon" may be a reference to Zelda's time in a mental institution and the special slotted silver spoon used to dissolve sugar cubes with absinthe, the popular 1920s alcoholic beverage distilled from the wormwood tree and called "the green fairy" for sometimes inducing hallucinations.
"Witchy Woman" is one of the earliest songs written by the Eagles, and together with "Take It Easy" it was also the very few songs the band performed every night in its early days. It was the first commercially successful song written by Don Henley, reaching No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Henley said of the song: "An important song for me, because it marked the beginning of my professional songwriting career.




Never ever offered before and quite possible the only one in existence the disc plays beautifully with only minor crackle in the run-off.

This may be your only chance to own what undoubtedly is a true rarity!

Try and find another one!


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  • NEAR MINT ~ audio inspection has revealed that the record plays noiselessly. If there are any surface marks these will be noted in the listing. 
  • EXCELLENT+ ~ The smallest of background sound e.g. one piece of dust in the grooves. No repetitive clicks or pops. 
  • EXCELLENT ~ audio inspection has revealed no major scratches on the playing surface but there may be the faintest of crackle or soft tics 
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