Glen Campbell Moved Into A Care Facility

billboard ^ | 4-17-14 | Lars Brandle

[Nevadan]

re: If he wasn’t writing his own pieces, he knew how to pick them.

Jimmy Webb wrote a lot of Campbell’s hits.

[SeekAndFind]

There is no end to his talent.

Here he is doing Amazing Grace on the Bagpipe:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_DqmyI_YNE

And here he is doing Dueling Banjos with daughter Ashley (Note, he already was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s then):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FY8OjT6me8

[trisham]

Poor man. What a terrible disease.

[ifinnegan]

I didn’t know til not that long ago how much of a hand Campbell had in so many of the “classic songs” from the 60’s.

[jrg]

Sad. My mother just passed last month after a looooong struggle with the disease. She got to where she could no longer swallow and basically starved to death.

Since smoking is said to take 10 years off your life, and dementia appears to be in my future, maybe I better start smoking fast.

[perez24]

Check him out singing “Still Within the Sound of My Voice.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlqJMHvDz7Y.

Linda Ronstadt was a great singer, and did a great version of this song, but his version is sublime.

[al baby]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qoymGCDYzU

Wichita lineman

[Tax-chick]

"If God ever gave one man too much talent, it was Glen Campbell."--Merle Haggard

This was in one of the comments on the Amazing Grace video. How nice that he could do so many other things!

Also, I'm not surprised he could still play banjo with Alzheimers. Motor skills, especially those honed by practice, are among the last to go. My father (32 years in the Navy) could still polish his boots and iron until very recently, and he could probably still clean a gun if you handed it to him.

People also forget acquired languages. My boss's husband forgot how to speak English. He would say, "Why doesn't anyone understand English anymore?!?" and she would reply, "Manuel, you were speaking Spanish!" The husband of one of my mother's friends forgot English and could only speak German.

[forgotten man]

I love “Gentle On My Mind.”

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

BFL

[Tax-chick]

Nice, and I agree about Linda Ronstadt, a terrific vocalist.

[Tax-chick]

Onz, he wrote, “MacArthur Park”!

[Fiji Hill]

My favorite recording of his is his first hit, Turn Around, Look at Me, from the fall of 1961.

[Chuzzlewit]

yep...I’ve always been a fan..

my mother is in stage 4 Alzheimers, with nothing left of her personality..

she repeats I love you hon, hon , hon... all day to my brother, ...she doesn’t know him by name anymore... doesn’t know anyone of her 5 children...

hate this disease...

[miss marmelstein]

A very great guitarist - and a very fine singer. A part of my childhood and very youthful adulthood. Must buy his greatest hits album.

[forgotten man]

My mom was a stroke victim with dementia. She spent the last 4 years in a skilled nursing facility. I was there 5 to 6 times a week. As bad as it was, I always said “thank God she does not have Alzheimers.” I feel bad for the families of the Alzheimers victims. The families are the ones who suffer the most.

[Tax-chick]

I’d always admired him as a vocalist, but I was surprised at his guitar virtuousity. The bagpipery was okay ... just getting a song out of that instrument shows that a person has made a lot of effort!

[miss marmelstein]

Yup, not a bad guitarist! Loved his voice. Funny thing about musicians, they almost always know how to put over a song. Campbell, of course, sang very well.

True Grit tonight on dvd?!

[Tax-chick]

We don’t have that, but it might be on Netflix streaming. I’m going to church, though.

[Pelham]

Was he part of the Wrecking Crew?