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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 ...
One of the songs, "MacArthur Park", was a long, complex piece with multiple movements [9] that was originally rejected by the group the Association. Despite the song's seven minutes and twenty-one seconds length, Harris's version reached No. 2 on the Hot 100 on June 22, 1968, and No. 4 on the UK Singles Chart on July 24. [ 10 ]
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.
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".
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 ...
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Music. Glen Campbell – vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitars Carol Kaye – bass guitar; Hal Blaine – drums; Bob Felts – drums; Al Casey – acoustic guitar; Dennis McCarthy – piano