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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.
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.
"Wichita Lineman" "Land of Make Believe" Glen Campbell & Chuck Mangione "I Can't Stand This Loneliness" Glen, Gerald & Shorty Campbell "Old Hometown" 5 16-Oct-82 Leo Sayer "Raining in My Heart" Leo Sayer "When I Need You" Glen Campbell & Leo Sayer "More Than I Can Say" Glen Campbell & Leo Sayer "Farther Along" Glen Campbell & Leo Sayer "Oh Boy"
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.
He commissioned another song from Webb, who soon provided "Wichita Lineman", a "gorgeous, haunting piece of contemporary Americana full of longing, distance, loneliness, and resigned exhaustion." [ 1 ] In 1969, a third addition to the so-called "town songs" cycle, "Galveston", was equally compelling and impressive.
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A man and a woman died after a vehicle lost control and rolled down an embankment Sunday evening along I-235 in southwest Wichita. The victims were identified as 24-year-old Nathaniel Boyd of ...
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.