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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.
"Guess I'm Dumb" is a song recorded by American singer Glen Campbell that was released as his seventh single on Capitol Records on June 7, 1965. Written by Brian Wilson and Russ Titelman, it is a love song that describes a man who regrets ending a relationship after he realizes he still harbors deep feelings for his former lover.
The CD single features a live cover of "Wichita Lineman", a song written by Jimmy Webb and made popular by Glen Campbell. The video for the single was shot in the style of an Italian movie entitled Stanco E Nudo (a translation of the line "tired and naked" in the song).
The actual Wichita lineman was a real person we know little about. Webb remembered when traveling through the panhandle of Oklahoma and Texas, seeing miles and miles of nothing but telephone poles ...
"Wichita Lineman" "The Moon's a Harsh Mistress" "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" "If These Walls Could Speak" "Didn't We" "Worst That Could Happen" "All I Know" "McArthur Park" Guardian Records 1996: R.E.M. single "Wichita Lineman" (live) Warner Bros. Records: 1997: Carly Simon: Film Noir "Film Noir" Arista Records: 1997 Christine Andreas Love Is ...
Webb was born on August 15, 1946, in Elk City, Oklahoma, and raised in Laverne, Oklahoma.He grew up in a religiously conservative family; [5] His father, Robert Lee Webb, was a Baptist minister and veteran of the United States Marine Corps who presided over rural churches in southwestern Oklahoma and west Texas.
Alfred V. De Lory (January 31, 1930 – February 5, 2012) was an American record producer, arranger, conductor and session musician. [1] He was the producer and arranger of a series of worldwide hits by Glen Campbell in the 1960s, including John Hartford's "Gentle on My Mind", Jimmy Webb's "By the Time I Get to Phoenix", "Wichita Lineman" and "Galveston".
In 1966, John Hartford was living with his wife and son in a trailer in Nashville, Tennessee.One night, the couple saw the film Doctor Zhivago at a local theater. Inspired by the love story depicted in the film between Yuri Zhivago and Lara Antipova, [2] Hartford returned home and wrote "Gentle on my Mind" in between twenty and thirty minutes. [3]