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Glen Campbell..........anyone still alive to know this guy? |
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Glen Campbell..........anyone still alive to know this guy?
I absolutely love this guy.
![]() Sing every song I can at every Karaoke. Obviously a few specials that I really belt out. Anyone else feeling ................welll..............right back.......................................go! ![]()
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My mother used to have a lot of his records. I remember "Honey Come Back", "Try A Little Kindness", "Southern Nights" and "Rhinestone Cowboy". Classic songs.
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My mother used to have a lot of his records. I remember "Honey Come Back", "Try A Little Kindness", "Southern Nights" and "Rhinestone Cowboy". Classic songs.
![]() For me the song "Where's the playground Susie" was the most poignant song for me when my mother was losing her life. Another was "The Everyday Housewive" .....again a real memory of the past that I'd prefer to be left behind |
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Brilliant classics Jeannie
![]() For me the song "Where's the playground Susie" was the most poignant song for me when my mother was losing her life. Another was "The Everyday Housewive" .....again a real memory of the past that I'd prefer to be left behind
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Didn't he used to be a linesman for Notts County?
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I love 'Galveston' and 'Wichita Linesman', both written by Jimmy Webb. Campbell was a great. Interpreter for Webb.
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wichita lineman was a great track....
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Great voice. He was also a highly in-demand session guitarist who played on records by Bobby Darin, Ricky Nelson, Dean Martin, Nat King Cole, The Monkees, Nancy Sinatra, Merle Haggard, Jan and Dean, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra and Phil Spector. Even more amazingly, he was a member of the Beach Boys touring band and played guitar on Pet Sounds. Sadly he now has Alzheimer's.
[yes, I c&p'd some of that from Wikipedia but I remember seeing the name Glen Campbell in the list of musicians on the back of an album sleeve and thinking, is that the Glen Campbell? Of course it was] |
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I remember Glen Campbell..........I think at the time I'd have thought of him as one for the Mums not us cool teens and twenties.
But Wichita Linesman was a great record. At the time my then girlfriend had a little dog called 'Honey' so that song resonated..... ![]() Now that I'm getting on a bit I mix him up with Bobby Goldsboro who was around at the same time and sounded similar |
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I love 'Galveston' and 'Wichita Linesman', both written by Jimmy Webb. Campbell was a great. Interpreter for Webb.
He also recorded a splendid version of "By The Time I Get To Phoenix", another terrific Jimmy Webb song. |
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He released a couple of solo albums in the last 10 years and they really are worth checking out- Ghost on the Canvas & Meet Glen Campbell
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As has been mentioned, Jimmy Webb helped his career a great deal with the songs he wrote for him.
I remember Glen had a big falling out with Tanya Tucker. |
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Didn't he used to be a linesman for Notts County?
But Glen Campbell is awesome though |
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I remember Glen had a big falling out with Tanya Tucker.
![]() God bless you and her and his family always!!! Holly (a fan of Tanya since 1991) P.S. A write up on her was in Country Weekly magazine not too long ago and in it, she talked about getting to see him sometime after he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease. Because the sickness was already doing its thing with him enough, she said that he stared at the phone a lot while she was there with him and when she told him that she loved him before she left, she said that he picked up the phone and gave it a kiss. |
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His two best singles ^^ (imo).
He also recorded a splendid version of "By The Time I Get To Phoenix", another terrific Jimmy Webb song. |
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His final song "i'm not gonna miss you" is heartbreaking. The lyric being about not missing someone because he'll no longer remember them as he struggles with Alzheimers is beautiful and tragic.
Poor guy and his family. My all time favourite song of his will always be Wichita Lineman though. A perfect song beautifully sung. |
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Yes I like Glen Campbell's records
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To me, they did do an awesome job singing "Dream Lover" together.
![]() God bless you and her and his family always!!! Holly (a fan of Tanya since 1991) P.S. A write up on her was in Country Weekly magazine not too long ago and in it, she talked about getting to see him sometime after he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease. Because the sickness was already doing its thing with him enough, she said that he stared at the phone a lot while she was there with him and when she told him that she loved him before she left, she said that he picked up the phone and gave it a kiss. Over 22M hits. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVHAQX5sSaU |
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![]() I remember hearing this one when I was about 12...was really wowed as until then I'd only ever really thought of him as one of those crooner types that 'old folk' listened to. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSyTK-CdRTc |
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What on earth does the OP mean by "anyone alive to know this guy"? He had hits in the 70's for god sake! Anyone would think he was famous 100 years ago or something! Yes OP there are still people alive on this planet who were around in 1975! Lol!
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What on earth does the OP mean by "anyone alive to know this guy"? He had hits in the 70's for god sake! Anyone would think he was famous 100 years ago or something! Yes OP there are still people alive on this planet who were around in 1975! Lol!
Indeed. I was probably in my prime in 1975 Yes, I remember at the time the Tanya Tucker relationship (for those not old enough I suppose Ms Tucker was a child Country superstar much like Leanne Rymes in her time and was of course a LOT younger than Mr Campbell). What i didn't know until I just read it was that relationship was clouded by Campbell's huge Columbian Marching Powder addiction. In fact he seems to have been a bit of a hellraiser in his earlier days.
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"Ghost on the Canvas" is a fantastic album. His cover of "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" is also a great track.
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Didn't he used to be a linesman for Notts County?
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What you did there. I have seen it.
I'm just glad somebody 'got' it
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I can remember Southern Nights as this was on the Convoy Soundtrack that my father owned. My father also owned one of his albums but I'm not sure which one.
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