Posted on 08/09/2017 3:26:04 PM PDT by mairdie
My cousin is a musician who toured with the Righteous
Brothers, Tina Turner, Glen Campbell, and others.
I’ve seen him only once in the last 60 yrs at a
family function and didn’t know enough to ask him
about him playing horns in San Francisco strip clubs
back in the early 60s, rubbing shoulders w/Dizzy
Gillespie, etal and touring with major performers.
If I get the chance I won’t make that mistake again.
I’ve always liked the song “Galveston”. I didn’t know that it was intended to be a protest song against the Vietnam War. Glen Campbell turned it into a pro-troops song.
Videotape him if you can! That’s history.
Turn Around, Look at Me (1961)
I never knew that about Galveston either. Absolutely fascinating factoid.
bmfl.
Thanks.
Wow! Thanks. I just checked it out. You are right: ‘...him doing the William Tell Overture on you tube-great.’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUBhE00h9U0 (3:31)
By the Time I Get to Phoenix--Glen Campbell (1967)
...of course, simply checking out the various albums or CDs on Amazon or wherever you will learn what songs are included on them. The reason for checking the reviews is to gather additional details about the album, such as quality of the tracks (remastered or not), length of the tracks (are the tracks cut short?), are they the particular version of the song you are looking for (remake or not by same artist), etc. You may also get suggestions for a better choice of a “Best Hits” album for that artist. Plus lots of other helpful info similar to this.
Is anyone old enough to remember when story songs were illustrated live on TV? 1950’s. I’m desperately trying to remember the name of the show that was on every week. I can still see the Vaya Con Dios song performed with a mantilla draped woman saying goodbye to a man. HIT PARADE! That was it!
My oldest sister is in touch with him periodically,
he resides in Grand Junction, CO, and he has earned
a Grammy for something or other. Sister tells me he
is losing his hearing severely.
Gentle On My Mind
Glen Campbell
It’s knowin’ that your door is always open
And your path is free to walk
That makes me tend to leave my sleepin’ bag
Rolled up and stashed behind your couch
And it’s knowin’ I’m not shackled
By forgotten words and bonds
And the ink stains that have dried upon some line
That keeps you in the back roads
By the rivers of my memory
That keeps you ever gentle on my mind
It’s not clingin’ to the rocks and ivy
Planted on their columns now that bind me
Or something that somebody said because
They thought we fit together walkin’
It’s just knowing that the world
Will not be cursing or forgiving
When I walk along some railroad track and find
That you’re movin’ on the back roads
By the rivers of my memory
And for hours you’re just gentle on my mind
Though the wheat fields and the clothes lines
And the junkyards and the highways come between us
And some other woman’s cryin’ to her mother
‘Cause she turned and I was gone
I still might run in silence
Tears of joy might stain my face
And the summer sun might burn me till I’m blind
But not to where I cannot see
You walkin’ on the back roads
By the rivers flowin’ gentle on my mind
I dip my cup of soup back from a gurglin’ cracklin’ cauldron
In some train yard
My beard a rustlin’ coal pile
And a dirty hat pulled low across my face
Through cupped hands ‘round a tin can
I pretend to hold you to my breast and find
That you’re waitin’ from the back roads
By the rivers of my memory
Ever smilin’, ever gentle on my mind
Songwriters: John Hartford
Closest I come, first instinct, is Forever Knight - Nick and Janette. 2nd. Dr. Who.
How sad for him. It’s terrible to think of his having to remember sounds that he loved instead of hearing them.
“Fandom”. Learned a new vocabulary word!
Best bunch of creative women I’ve ever met. Accomplished in their fields from lawyers to archeologists to professors to sociologists, etc. Giving of themselves to each other to help everyone be the best that they can be. I was in physics/computer science and not surrounded by many women in the early days. These women taught me just how to value the differences that women brought. I gained three careers out of fandom, and I thank these women for their encouragement and help. When the IBM VP gave me the multimedia magazine, I told him that I wouldn’t make videos about his projects. I’d make them about the people that made his projects. And when he announced my project in a Research meeting, that’s how he described it. I think that’s the sort of impact that fandom made on me.
I really love Glen Campbell. Will enjoy him for an eternity with Jesus.
I truly am deeply happy for you.
The song wasn’t written as a protest song. Jimmy Webb wrote it about the Spanish-American War.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGFx_Y8r9TQ Queue up to about 7:01.
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