Glenn Frey by his friends, fellow musicians and bandmates including Don Henley, Randy Meisner, J. D. Souther, Jack Tempchin, Irving Azoff, Linda Ronstadt, Don Felder, and Bob Seger. At the 58th Annual Grammy Awards, the remaining members of the Eagles and Jackson Browne performed "Take It Easy" in his honor. A life-sized statue of Frey was unveiled at the Standin' on the Corner Park in Winslow, Arizona, on September 24, 2016, to honor his songwriting contributions to "Take It Easy", made famous by the Eagles as their first single in 1972. The road that runs next to the high school he attended
Glenn Morris died of congestive heart failure "and other complications" at the veterans hospital in Palo Alto, California, in 1974 and was buried in Skylawn Memorial Park in San Mateo, California. He was married from 1937 to 1940 to Charlotte Edwards, whom he had met in college. In 2013 a novel with the title "Olympic Affair" was published by Terry Frei in which he depicts the life of Morris. In this book Frei imagines what the affair with Leni Riefenstahl would be like. Glenn Morris Glenn Edgar Morris (June 18, 1912 – January 31, 1974) was a U.S. track and field athlete.