Eagles – Get You in the Mood

About The Song

Get You in the Mood by the Eagles first appeared on May 1, 1972, as the B-side to the band’s debut single “Take It Easy” on Asylum Records. While “Take It Easy” climbed to No. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 and put the new group on the map, this flip side stayed in the shadows, never making the cut for their self-titled debut album that dropped in June. It was the only time in the Eagles’ career that they put a non-album track on a single, a quiet sign that even their early outtakes had real spark.
Glenn Frey wrote the song and handled the lead vocal. It was cut during the February 1972 sessions at Olympic Sound Studios in London with producer Glyn Johns, right alongside the rest of the material for the first record. At one point the track actually sat on the album sequence. Johns wasn’t happy with the initial take of “Nightingale,” so Frey’s number stepped in as a replacement. When the band flew back to Los Angeles, they decided to give “Nightingale” another go at Wally Heider’s studio—specifically so Don Henley could have a second lead vocal on the finished LP. Glyn Johns even flew over to oversee the redo. Once “Nightingale” was fixed, “Get You in the Mood” was quietly dropped from the album and handed the B-side slot instead.
The move turned an almost-album cut into a genuine rarity. For years it existed only on that original 45, a hidden snapshot of the young band still figuring out their sound in real time. Frey’s performance has the easy confidence that would soon define so much of the Eagles’ early work—laid-back yet insistent, the kind of groove that made people flip the record over more than once. Fans who tracked it down over the decades often point to it as one of those early gems that got unfairly overlooked, and it finally started showing up on official remasters and the massive 2018 Legacy box set.
In the end, “Get You in the Mood” captures the Eagles right at the starting line: hungry, tight, and already writing songs good enough to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with their first hit. It never charted on its own and never landed on the debut LP, but it quietly proved the band had depth from day one. For a B-side that almost didn’t exist, it has stuck around longer than a lot of A-sides ever did, reminding everyone that sometimes the real treasures are the ones you have to turn the record over to find.

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Lyric

Oh, I sure wish I could get you in the mood
To get your self as crazy as me
But we both know I can’t even touch you, babe
And still your love is gettin’ to me

I get so wasted in the city
Last girl I hit on wasn’t very pretty
I’ve been wastin’ all my time in pity
Waitin’ for you to leave your man

I need you, baby
You drive me crazy
The past and the present
Are endless and hazy
The moon is a weeper
The sun is your clown
And his way of lovin’
Is holdin’ you down

I’m gonna sit right down and wait for my angel
I touch her when I’m holding your hand
She’s got eyes wide as you
Bright, shinin’ too
Sleepin’ next to some other man

But I could make you feel so good
If I could only make you mine
If you could believe that you could live without him
I got to tell you one more time

I need you, baby
You drive me crazy
The past and the present
Are endless and hazy
The moon is a weeper
The sun is your clown
And his way of lovin’
Is holdin’ you down