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To: newfreep

That’s perfect! I’ve not heard of this song before.


40 posted on 09/19/2018 12:53:52 PM PDT by chris37 ("I am everybody." -Mark Robinson)
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To: chris37

Jimmy Webb, the songwriter, is one of the great pop songwriters of the last 50 years.

The lyrics to “Wichita Lineman” is hauntingly simple but communicates a vast array of loneliness...just like that lineman on a pole out in the middle of nowhere.

Glen Campbell was a virtuoso on guitar and, before he became a star, was a HIGHLY respected studio musician and a member of the “Wrecking Crew” - THE number one group of the very best studio musicians that played on hit songs from Sinatra to Beach Boys.

As an aside, Eddie Van Halen once asked Glen to give him a guitar lesson - that’s just one example of how respected Glen was in the music industry.

Fun Fact on “Wichita Lineman”...

Jimmy Webb had only written the two verses and considered it unfinished; however Glen decided to record it, as is, and played the middle solo on a 6-string bass guitar he borrowed from the great bassist, Carol Kaye, also a fellow member of the Wrecking Crew.

YouTube has lots of versions including the studio version - incredible song performed by an equally incredible singer/guitarist. Glen & Jimmy Webb had other collaborations including “By The Time I Get To Phoenix” and “Galveston” worth checking out if “Wichita Lineman” sounds good to you.


65 posted on 09/19/2018 1:40:42 PM PDT by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" @HOROWITZ39, DAVID HOROWITZ)
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