New York Minute (song)

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"New York Minute"
Don Henley - New York Minute.jpg
Single by Don Henley
from the album The End of the Innocence
ReleasedOctober 1989 (UK)
November 1990 (US)
Recorded1988
Genre Rock
Length6:37
Label Geffen
Songwriter(s) Don Henley, Danny Kortchmar, and Jai Winding
Producer(s) Don Henley and Danny Kortchmar [1]
Don Henley singles chronology
"How Bad Do You Want It?"
(1990)
"New York Minute"
(1989)
"The Garden of Allah"
(1995)

"New York Minute" is a song written by Don Henley, Danny Kortchmar, and Jai Winding. Henley originally recorded it for his 1989 album The End of the Innocence . The track features Pino Palladino on fretless bass, Toto members David Paich, who played piano and wrote the string arrangement, and Jeff Porcaro on drums. It also features Take 6 on background vocals.

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Reception

The single was a #5 hit on the U.S. Adult Contemporary chart the following year, [2] although it reached only #48 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Eagles performances

"New York Minute" is one of several of Henley's solo songs to be performed by the Eagles (the others being "Dirty Laundry", "All She Wants to Do Is Dance", "The Boys of Summer", "The Heart of the Matter", and "Sunset Grill") during the Hell Freezes Over tour.

Personnel

Other appearances

It is featured in The West Wing episode "Somebody's Going to Emergency, Somebody's Going to Jail," which was named for a line from the song. It is also featured in the Friends episode "The One with Two Parts, Part Two" [4] and at the final of the first episode (365) of Black Monday .

Charts

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