[mairdie]

I really, really hate it when we lose good people.

[headstamp 2]

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

[SkyDancer]

Galveston and Wichita Lineman are my two fav’s of his; well okay, Rhinestone Cowboy too.

[ETL]

[mairdie]

To make the links

Wichita Lineman, for Alias’ computer geek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWRxpooc06E

Time, for Callan’s spymaster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKeD7soENd8

[dfwgator]

Six Banjos play “Cripple Creek” (featuring a young Steve Martin)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIWg4DnAIro

[newfreep]

Interview with Alice Cooper on late musician Glen Campbell

A very insightful interview from Glen’s close friend & golfing partner. Funny and sad – HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6q2hsdXenQ&feature=youtu.be

[Snickering Hound]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY-aAYl259k

In 1968 he introduced Eric Clapton and Cream to America.

[Sivad]

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.

[SSS Two]

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.

[Fiji Hill]

My favorite Glen Campbell recording:

Turn Around, Look at Me (1961)

[EliRoom8]

bmfl.

Thanks.

[Fiji Hill]

Here's a song about a road trip. The singer doesn't reveal his starting point, from which he departs early in the morning, but it's probably Goodyear, Ariz. He makes it all the way to Oklahoma--a grueling drive, much of it over two-lane roads--when day is done.

By the Time I Get to Phoenix--Glen Campbell (1967)

[SSS Two]

Galveston official video.

[mairdie]

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!

[ETL]

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

[Bellflower]

I really love Glen Campbell. Will enjoy him for an eternity with Jesus.