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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.
"Wichita Lineman" "Galveston" Shout! Factory 2010 Country's Greatest Stars Live Vol. 1: Various Artists "Rhinestone Cowboy" "Back in the Saddle Again" "Bye Bye Love" duet with Ray Charles "Medley: Gentle on My Mind/Honey Come Back/By the Time I Get to Phoenix/Wichita Lineman/Galveston/Country Boy (You Got Your Feet In L.A.)"
Arte Johnson as "Tyrone F. Horneigh" approaching Lucille Ball in a sketch on the show (1971). The character was originally created for Laugh-In.. The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour is an American music and comedy television variety show that was hosted by singer Glen Campbell from January 29, 1969, to June 13, 1972, on CBS.
Satellite sounds and an organ the size of an elephant. Webb had an old church organ, a Branson 700 Series electronic organ, that had some pre-programmed sounds.
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".
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Glen Campbell in Concert with the South Dakota Symphony is the fifty-eighth album by American singer Glen Campbell, released in 2001.The album was recorded during a two-night show, January 10 and 11, 2001, at the Washington Pavilion, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where he was accompanied by his daughter Debby Campbell, and the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra.
The protagonist is a soldier waiting to go into battle who thinks of the woman he loves and his hometown of Galveston, Texas.. The song was first released in 1968 by a mournful-sounding Don Ho, [7] who introduced Glen Campbell to it when Ho appeared as a guest on The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour.