Claim: The Eagles are a group.

`` Take It to the Limit '' is a song by the Eagles from their fourth album One of These Nights from which it was issued as the third single on November 15 , 1975 . It reached No. 4 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and was also the Eagles ' greatest success to that point in the UK , going to No. 12 on the charts . Billboard ranked it as the No. 25 song for 1976 .   The song was written by Eagles ' members Randy Meisner , Don Henley and Glenn Frey . Meisner , who sang lead on it , says the song began as his solo composition . As it remained unfinished when time came for the One of These Nights album to be recorded , Henley and Frey assisted Meisner in completing it . Meisner 's performance of the song was popular with the audience in Eagles ' concerts , but disputes over his reluctance to perform the song would also directly lead to Meisner leaving the band .