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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.
He provided the flamenco-influenced guitar licks in the 5th Dimension's "Up and Away" as well as the guitar intro to the popular M*A*S*H theme. [81] [82] Billy Strange was one of the top guitarists with the Wrecking Crew and played on hits such as "The Little Old Lady (from Pasadena)" and the Beach Boys' version of "Sloop John B". [83]
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 ...
Glen Campbell – vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitars; Carol Kaye – bass guitar; Hal Blaine – drums; Bob Felts – drums; Al Casey – acoustic guitar; Dennis McCarthy – piano; Joe Osborn – bass guitar; Jim Gordon – drums; Ray Pohlman – bass guitar; Jimmy Webb – organ on "Wichita Lineman" Production. Al De Lory – producer ...
"Turn Around, Look at Me" is a song written by Jerry Capehart and Glen Campbell, though Campbell is not officially credited. [1]In 1961, Glen Campbell released his version as a single.
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The implementation of chords using particular tunings is a defining part of the literature on guitar chords, which is omitted in the abstract musical-theory of chords for all instruments. For example, in the guitar (like other stringed instruments but unlike the piano ), open-string notes are not fretted and so require less hand-motion.
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.