Glen Campbell - MacArthur Park Live [youtube video]

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[FlJoePa]

Glen Campbell - MacArthur Park

[FlJoePa]

I hadn't seen this before. Strange song, but as with all Jimmy Webb songs, GC owns it.

The guitar solo at 4:50 looks like Hendrix. As great of a guitar player as Glen is, I think he's a very underrated vocalist. He nails this song.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

That is good. My favorite version was by Waylon Jennings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6WVoEWqTKw

[FlJoePa]

Ehhh...I like it. Too dark and slow though imo. Also no great guitar solos like with GC.

[Right Brother]

Good God! So sad this incredible talent is being taken away by the scourge of Alzheimer’s disease. God bless you Glen!

[bigbob]

As Merle Haggard said, “if there’s ever an example of a man given too much talent for one body, it’s Glen Campbell”.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Glen was great. Alzheimers sucks.

[ConorMacNessa]

I can't recall having heard this song by anyone other than Richard Harris. He, in my opinion, used his somewhat limited vocal powers well in that rendition.

The Glen Campbell rendition is excellent. He has a clear and strong Tenor voice, and his skill with a guitar is most impressive.

MacArthur Park - the Richard Harris redaction - came out when I was a twenty year old Hospital Corpsman on the Surgical Ward at USNH Quantico. It made quite an impression on me. A few months later Glen Campbell came out with "Galveston." At the time, I was in Field Med School at Camp Pendleton immediately before my deployment to 'Nam. "Galveston" resonated strongly with me at that time, and continues to do so even now.

"Galveston, O Galveston!
I am so afraid of dying,
Before I dry the tears she's crying
Before I watch your sea birds flying in the sun
At Galveston, at Galveston."

Glen Campbell's music was, IMO, great - he is highly underrated. I am so sorry to see that he is in such dire condition now.

God Bless him and may Our Dear Lord hold him close in His Healing Arms!



"Dia shábháil ar fad anseo!"

Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[bigbob]

For those who haven’t heard of “The Wrecking Crew”, which is what really brought Glen Campbell to prominence, here’s the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xs2kJn6PBE

The book is fantastic. The true inside story of west coast rock and roll, and Glen’s amazing role in it.

[FlJoePa]

Where does that documentary stand bigbob? Is it in crowd sourcing for funding?

[Celtic Conservative]

Glen Campbells version of “Wichita lineman” is fantastic. Second best is Keith Urban’s version, although it is a bootleg. You can find it on the web easily enough.

CC

[aposiopetic]

Amen!

[FlJoePa]

The astounding 12 string guitar of Glen Campbell:

Puff the Magic Dragon, The Ballad of Jed Clampett, and then some.