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Webb wrote "Wichita Lineman" in response to Campbell's urgent phone request for a "place"-based or "geographical" song to follow up "By the Time I Get to Phoenix". [5]His lyrical inspiration came while driving through the high plains of the Oklahoma panhandle past a long line of telephone poles, on one of which perched a lineman speaking into his handset.
"Only One Life" "I Will Arise" Intersound Records: 1994: Jimmy Webb: In Their Own Words, Volume One "Wichita Lineman" Razor & Tie: 1994: Nanci Griffith: Red, Hot & Country "If These Walls Could Speak" Mercury Records: 1994: Rosemary Clooney: Demi-Centennial "Time Flies" Concord Records: 1994: Shawn Colvin: Cover Girl "If These Walls Could Speak ...
The album was originally to have been released in 1997 under the title Tore Up from the Floor Up, with a cover of Glen Campbell's "Wichita Lineman" serving as the lead-off single. After this cover failed to reach Top 40, however, it was replaced with "The Day That She Left Tulsa" and the album was re-titled, with "Wichita Lineman" not making ...
Songwriter Jimmy Webb takes a smoke during a break in the taping of the Bobby Bare & Friends show at Bullet studio on Music Row on March 21, 1984.
It was released in November 1997 the lead-off single from Hayes' album When the Wrong One Loves You Right. The song reached number 5 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart and number 9 on the Canadian RPM country singles chart. It also peaked at number 86 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It was his last top ten single to date.
[88] [nb 6] Campbell enlisted the Wrecking Crew as a backup unit on many of his own solo records during the 1960s, such as on "Gentle on My Mind", and on two songs written by Jimmy Webb, "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" and his single "Wichita Lineman". [90] Leon Russell pictured in 1970, the year he became a solo recording artist
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The arrangements are generally very simple and straightforward, with Webb's piano the primary instrument, and several of the songs are performed in a deeply personal manner, more akin to home recording for Webb's own pleasure than to a commercial release—"Wichita Lineman", in particular, sounds here like the most personal and private of ...