{{pp-semi-indef|small=yes}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2023}} {{Infobox song | name = Peaceful Easy Feeling | cover = Peaceful Easy Feeling.jpg | alt = | type = single | artist = Eagles | album = Eagles | B-side = Tryin' | released = December 1, 1972 | recorded = Olympic Sound (London, England) | studio = | venue = | genre = {{hlist|Soft rock<ref>{{cite news|first= Ed |last= Masley |title= 10/1: 5 essential Eagles albums- 'Hotel to 'Border' |url= http://www.azcentral.com/story/entertainment/music/2014/09/30/eagles-albums-best-hotel-california-one-nights/16485703/ |newspaper= The Arizona Republic |date= September 30, 2014 |access-date= May 23, 2015}}</ref>|country rock<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2015/may/31/review-eagles-long-rich-history-thrills-audience/|title=Review: Eagles' long, rich history thrills audience at Spokane Arena | date= May 31, 2015|work=The Spokesman-Review|access-date=July 31, 2015}}</ref>}} | length = 4:13 | label = Asylum | writer = Jack Tempchin | producer = Glyn Johns | prev_title = Witchy Woman | prev_year = 1972 | next_title = Tequila Sunrise | next_year = 1973 }} "'''Peaceful Easy Feeling'''" is a song written by Jack Tempchin and recorded by the Eagles. It was the third single from the band's 1972 debut album ''Eagles''. The single reached No. 22 on the charts and is one of the band's most popular songs. Glenn Frey sings the lead vocal, with Bernie Leadon providing the main harmony vocal (starting in the beginning of the second verse) and Randy Meisner completing this three-part harmony.
==Background== Jack Tempchin wrote the song during a period in which he was performing at folk coffee shops around his hometown of San Diego.<ref name="nod"/> A friend had created a poster to advertise his performances, which included fake quotes from famous individuals attesting to Tempchin's talent, which landed in the hands of a shop owner in nearby El Centro. Tempchin slept on the floor of the club the night of his show, and wrote an early version of "Peaceful Easy Feeling" on the back of the poster.<ref name="nod"/> Back in San Diego, Tempchin was rooming in a communal-type home with other musicians when inspiration for completing the song hit.
{{blockquote|We'd sit in front of the picture window and watch the beautiful girls on the bus stop bench and fall in love with them until their bus came. We talked in those days about how love never seems to show up until you stop looking for it. But, as young guys, we were unable to stop looking for love even for one day.<ref name="nod"/>}}
During a following trip to Old Town San Diego State Historic Park, Tempchin saw a girl with "turquoise earrings against her dark skin," which he incorporated into the song. "I guess I was trying to distill the beauty of every girl I saw into words on paper and then into a song," he later stated.<ref name="nod"/> He later completed the song's third verse in the parking lot of the Der Wienerschnitzel fast food establishment in San Diego.<ref name="nod"/>
Some time later, Tempchin had moved to Los Angeles and was attempting to break into the music industry alongside Jackson Browne, Glenn Frey, and JD Souther.<ref name="nod"/> Frey heard Tempchin's "Peaceful Easy Feeling" and asked if he could develop it further, adding that his new band, the Eagles, had only just formed eight days prior. He presented Tempchin with a cassette demo on the track the next day, who later remarked, "It was so good I couldn’t believe it."<ref name=nod>{{cite journal| date =December 21, 2012| title =40 Years of 'Peaceful Easy Feeling' - The Story Behind The Song by Jack Tempchin| journal =No Depression| url =http://www.nodepression.com/article/40-years-peaceful-easy-feeling-story-behind-song-jack-tempchin| author =Jack Tempchin| author-link =Jack Tempchin| access-date =October 13, 2012| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20130202022211/http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/tom-delonge-talks-guitar-tones-growing-up-and-blink-565422| archive-date =February 2, 2013| url-status =dead}}</ref>
''Billboard'' described the song as "a pop-flavored progressive country effort with lyrics that penetrate and stick in the mind."<ref name=bb>{{cite news|newspaper=Billboard|access-date=July 31, 2020|title=Radio Action and Pick Singles|date=December 16, 1972|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/70s/1972/BB-1972-12-16.pdf|page=61}}</ref> ''Record World'' called it "mellow country folk music at its best."<ref name=rw>{{cite magazine|magazine=Record World|date=December 16, 1972|accessdate=March 27, 2023|title=Hits of the Week|page=1|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Record-World/70s/72/RW-1972-12-16.pdf}}</ref>
== Personnel == * Glenn Frey – lead vocals, acoustic guitar * Bernie Leadon – B-Bender electric guitar, harmony vocals * Randy Meisner – bass, backing vocals * Don Henley – drums, backing vocals
==Cover versions== On the 1993 album ''Common Thread: The Songs of the Eagles'', country music band Little Texas recorded a cover of "Peaceful Easy Feeling". This cover version charted at No. 74 on the U.S. ''Billboard'' Hot Country Songs charts{{citation needed|date=November 2023}} and was later included on the band's 1995 ''Greatest Hits'' album.
==Charts== {| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;" |- !scope="col"| Chart (1972–1973) !scope="col"| Peak<br />position |- !scope="row"{{single chart|Canadatopsingles|35|artist=Eagles|song=Peaceful Easy Feeling|chartid=5305|publishdate=March 3, 1973|accessdate=November 16, 2025}} |- !scope="row" | Canadian Adult Contemporary (''RPM'')<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-110.01-e.php?PHPSESSID=6rf37fnjcq9d36ebc7gcgju5a3&q1=Eagles&q2=Adult+Contemporary&interval=20|title=Results - RPM - Library and Archives Canada: Adult Contemporary|publisher=RPM|access-date=July 11, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121016041100/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-110.01-e.php?PHPSESSID=6rf37fnjcq9d36ebc7gcgju5a3&q1=Eagles&q2=Adult+Contemporary&interval=20|archive-date=October 16, 2012}}</ref> |align="center"|22 |- !scope="row"{{single chart|Billboardhot100|22|artist=Eagles|song=Peaceful Easy Feeling|accessdate=October 6, 2014}} |- !scope="row" | US Easy Listening (''Billboard'')<ref name="UScharts">{{cite magazine|url={{BillboardURLbyName|artist=Eagles|chart=all}}|title=Eagles Chart History|access-date=October 6, 2014|magazine=Billboard|publisher=Prometheus Global Media}}</ref> |align="center"|20 |}
==Certifications== {{Certification Table Top}} {{Certification Table Entry|region=United Kingdom|type=single|artist=Eagles|title=Peaceful Easy Feeling|award=Silver|relyear=2004|certyear=2023|id=19265-663-1|access-date=September 1, 2023}} {{Certification Table Bottom|nosales=true|noshipments=true|streaming=true}}
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