I am an old retired electrical lineman, and I always loved this song even though it was written about a telephone lineman. I am also a native Oklahoman, and I love the songwriting talent of Jimmy Webb as well as the incredible guitar playing and singing of Glen Campbell.
After a hurricane trashed our rural Florida street, we didn't have power or water for a month. Low in the que. Canned tuna with a glass of whisky sour mix. Flushing toilets with buckets of swamp water. It was miserable and hot. One morning we heard a power truck out on the road. All the way from Oklahoma...great crew.
Lineman work on power lines or telephone lines. Climbing poles is exciting, climbing a 85 foot, bare pole is stressful even if you're comfortable with pole climbing. Working high voltage energized is also stressful. Transmission line work involves heights above 200 feet and the hardware is very heavy, so competence in rigging is also required
The yearning, haunting atmosphere of this song is what really gets me. Though short, it transports you out onto that dusty endless midwestern plain with the empty road stretching into the hazy distance, a solitary telephone line strung from pole to pole, and a lonely lineman in dusty work clothes perched atop one of them and distracted by thoughts of a woman many miles away. It's a simple image but one you never forget.
glen rules. this is one of those songs that you wish was twice as long. he sadly suffered from the dreaded alzheimer's until passing in 2017. we lost a national treasure . damn i miss him. and your last guess was right - a lineman is a power line and telephone line worker that repairs downed lines from storms , etc.
Glen had his own TV show at the end of the 1960s called the GLEN CAMPBELL GOODTIME HOUR. You can find episodes here on You tube. I never missed one when it was on the air. "And I need you more than want you, and I want you for all time." Fantastic lyrics.
Believe me, being a power lineman is NOT a mundane job. It's dangerous and mistakes can could harm you or your co-workers. Not many jobs out there where you want to go to work each day
This was one of several of Glen Campbell's hits written by the great Jimmy Webb. Check him out. Towering songwriting talent, superb pianist and fine singer. One particular Webb recording, a duet on his All I Know from 2010, was Linda Ronstadt's last recording...it is achingly lovely.
My mom had all his 1960s records, so he was part of my musical soundscape growing up (born 1961). Great voice, great guitar, Jimmy Webb's awesome songwriting: a great early experience of great music. Shawn: you do great work. Keep it up!
Glen was one of the best session musicians ever, also a member of the famous Wrecking Crew that played on hundreds of albums. He had Alzheimer's in his last few years and couldn't remember people or places, but he would go on stage and play and sing his songs perfectly (the magic in the music stayed in his memories). In his final song, "I'M NOT GONNA MISS YOU," the lyrics speak of the inevitability of his illness and the reality that he would eventually forget his loved ones. It's heartbreakingly sad. The opening lines: "I'm still here, but yet I'm gone, I don't play guitar or sing my songs." He acknowledged that while he may have been physically present, his mind was not. The song's chorus repeats the heartbreaking, "I'm not gonna miss you. When you're gone, I'm not gonna miss you. I'm not gonna cry. I'm not gonna miss you." The song deeply touched people with the onset of dementia and Alzheimers. ua-cam.com/video/Az_nSlhHBys/v-deo.htmlsi=AwKMM5riWoovG1Cn
Great Reaction! Glen Campbell was definitely one of the best vocalists AND guitar players of the time. Jimmy Webb was one of the best songwriters. Together they produced some unforgettable music! Actually there are a TON of famous singers, songwriters and other entertainers who came from Oklahoma, including David Gates of Bread! I thoroughly enjoy watching your reaction videos and I look forward to seeing more.
SO THIS WAS MY DUDE SHAWN💯 I LITERALLYYYY WENT FROM GLEN TO ( ELTON ) AND NEVERRRR LOOKED BACK! GLEN WAS THE VERYYYY VERY BEST BY FARRRRR👍 AND THE MAN DIDN'T EVEN READ MUSIC, PLAYED A 12 STRING GUITAR😮, TALK ABOUT INSANELYYY GOOD! 😊RIP GLEN☹, YOU WERE THE MUSIC MAN!
I'd just graduated high school. I was taking a year off to travel. I needed money. I took the 1st job I could get. I hated it. It paid $1.90/hr. I was taking the bus to this job I despised. This song came on the radio as I was leaving for work. It brought out a feeling in me I can't describe. Sadness, loneliness, melancholy, wistful. I still remember that feeling 60 years later.
Wow this is the music of my early early childhood. My favorite song by Bread by the way is Everything I Own. I associate it with my great grandma, who had a really special and close relationship with me as a little boy before she passed.
Hey good call on the phone line. Being raised in a wireless world it wouldn't dawn on most. It's really a sad love song, Shawn. He loves her but he's gotta maintain this huge area of phone lines and is always gone. The only way he talks to her is when he's "still on the line" working. A lot of career long haul truckers relate to this song.
Glen Campbell was a member of The Beach Boys for a while in the 1960s. My Mom loved him and played his music all the time at our cottage in northern Michigan, so Glen always makes me feel good. "Galveston" is another great tune. I never liked "Rhinestone Cowboy," which I suspect is the first Glen Cambell song you listened to.
Love this reaction, thanks so much Shawn!😊This song gives me chills every time I listen to it. Bob Dylan once called it “the greatest song ever written.” As others have mentioned, Glen Campbell got his start in “the Wrecking Crew,” as they are now known…I highly recommend the 2015 documentary of the same name (it has Glen and Jimmy Webb in it). Looking forward to the Glen Campbell reaction you had already recorded😊
One of the best right there! Perfect song. So evocative.... And, yes--a great line.... Working out there on the telephone lines, lonely and in love. Thank you!💖🎇✨ P.S. And Bread is a really great band! Glad you like them so much. Glen Campbell's songs, By the Time I Get to Phoenix, Galveston, Southern Nights, Rhinestone Cowboy, and Gentle on My Mind were very popular. Way back when, he had a great TV variety show. It is amazing to watch him perform. Tom Jones had his own TV show also.
My favorite Glenn Campbell song. It's beautiful & emotive. There's nothing "country" about it. No Hawaiian guitar. Just a beautiful studio strings arrangement.
Nice! Glen Campbell was so talented! There is a video on UA-cam of Glenn Campbell & Johnny Cash & Roger Miller backing up John Denver live on “Thank God I’m a Country Boy!” Worth checking out! Thank you whoever did the donation request! 😀
One of the greatest guitarists of any genre. Did you know Glenn was a "Beach Boy" for a short while? Glenn was also a member of the famous studio recording Band in Los Angeles called "The Wrecking Crew." They were the guys that played the music in recording sessions for artists and even Bands, when cutting an album. You had to be one of the best at your particular instrument to do that sort of work, and Glenn was. Sadly, Glenn died of Alzheimer's dementia a couple of years ago. Great guy, and a great artist.
I've never been into Country music that much but Glen had something special that transcended musical genres. What a gorgeous song. My groups of choice are Yes, Rush, LZ, and Pink Floyd, but I could listen to this song almost every day and never get tired of it. If you like this style of Country/Pop, Shawn, you should react to Ronnie Milsap and his great song "Smokey Mountain Rain." ❤✌
I was born in 1993. But having seen movies from the 1960s as well as old photos of my hometown in the country, this song makes me envision a beautiful summer day in my town in 1969, the smell of freshly mown grass, hearing buzzing insects on the water, reading a book in the sun with a big glass of ice tea on the side
I always loved Glen! Next time you are in a country mood, give a listen to Mac Davis' song "It's Hard to be Humble". Mac was primarily known as a songwriter, but he had some big hits as a singer as well, and this one was just so much fun. The only problem is that the chorus will be stuck in your head for the rest of the day!
Linemen like so many other American workers all over the country keep things up and running and that's why it pisses me off when politicians and big money big shots call American workers "lazy" and "overpaid". Don't get me started....haha. Anyway, love this song by the great Jimmy Webb. The song is genius.
Unforgettable tune that catapulted him to stardom. He was one of the very first crossover singers from country to pop! Later became a superstar in the industry!okay Shawn if you really like a well written love song sung with feeling then you MUST react to the tune ON and ON by Stephen Bishop as well as his song Madge!
It's stuck a shame people don't swamp comments for bread. They were my 1st concert in '70. They've remained near me, so dear still many decades past. I love this one too.
Hard to imagine Glenn and Alice Cooper used to play golf together. Shawn, a great guest that was on Glenn's show was JOHN HARTFORD, when you have time look the guy up, you won't be disappointed. A fiddle player/ banjo player who also was a river boat captain.
While I've always enjoyed Glen Campbell's music, my real fav is the songwriter, Jimmy Webb, who wrote many of Glen's hits. He also wrote a song recorded by Judy Collins, 'The Moon's a Harsh Mistress', if you want to check it out.
I grew up listening to his music. Glen Campbell was one of the most talented entertainers & guitarists in the world. He had a lot of hits such as "By the Time I Get To Phoenix", "Gentle On My Mind", "Dreams Of The Everyday Housewife", "Galveston", "Try A Little Kindness", "Rhinestone Cowboy", "Southern Nights" etc. Sadly he got Alzheimer's later in life. The last song he recorded was "I'm Not Gonna Miss You".
This was the first one most brits heard in the UK by Glenn Campbell. Probably the best too. I like the way the sound evokes the wide open lonely spaces, and the lyrics tell the life of an ordinary working Joe. Jim my Webb did write other stuff, you ought to look him up. Glenn had other hits - Galveston is good.Rhinestone Cowboy was successful for him but it's not my favourite. He was a good guitar player.
Glen, Jimmy Webb and the Wrecking Crew are all worth researching. Glen was a consummate performer. He couldn’t read music but was a session musician with the Wrecking Crew, a great singer and guitarist, was comfortable with TV and audiences. The song has received accolades for many sources including Bob Dylan who said “it is the best song ever written”.
SOUNDS LIKE YOU MIGHT GET INTO A GLEN CAMPBELL DIVE, THATTTTT WOULD BE COOL! 😊HERE'S SOME GR8888 VIDEOS SHAWN : BACK HOME IN INDIANA, GENTLE ON MY MIND, WILLIAM TELL OVERTURE ( A MUST )💯 YOU'LL BE BLOWN AWAY AT HIS PERFORMANCE👍, HE GETS AN OVATION AT THE END, IT'S THE TV SHOW SONG ( LONE RANGER ) WHICH WAS GLEN'S FAVORITE, THE LONE RANGER AND TONTO. I CAN GO ON N ON BUT I'LL STOP FOR NOW!
Songs about football players always get to me. My furuncle was a lineman for the Hooterville Knuckleheads back in Aught Six, whatever that means. So when you get around to doing songs about football linemen, lemme know. Not so happy about the phone company just now. Silliness aside, this is why Glen and Jimmy Webb are permanent fixtures in the history of American music. And you teased out the most pregnant line. Even the thought of it moves me.
If you want to see just how good he was on guitar, you need to watch him do "William Tell Overture". ua-cam.com/video/jjTI4VRX39Y/v-deo.htmlsi=LTT03WwBIhbO3Z1g
I'm hoping you figured it out because back in my day the electrical wires were above ground the ground and running alongside a road from pole to pole. And that's how we got our electricity. So that's why we had lineman who went up on top of the pole when something needed repair and kept our electricity running
This song is considered the best American popular song of all time. I do think that you can find a live version that is more riveting. A lineman works on telephone lines back in the day when they were all above ground strung together by telephone poles.
"Wichita Lineman" is a 1968 song written by Jimmy Webb for American country music artist Glen Campbell, who recorded it backed by members of the Wrecking Crew. wiki
I am an old retired electrical lineman, and I always loved this song even though it was written about a telephone lineman. I am also a native Oklahoman, and I love the songwriting talent of Jimmy Webb as well as the incredible guitar playing and singing of Glen Campbell.
After a hurricane trashed our rural Florida street, we didn't have power or water for a month. Low in the que. Canned tuna with a glass of whisky sour mix. Flushing toilets with buckets of swamp water. It was miserable and hot. One morning we heard a power truck out on the road. All the way from Oklahoma...great crew.
As a member of the Wrecking Crew he played on 586 records. Great guitar player.
Lineman work on power lines or telephone lines. Climbing poles is exciting, climbing a 85 foot, bare pole is stressful even if you're comfortable with pole climbing. Working high voltage energized is also stressful. Transmission line work involves heights above 200 feet and the hardware is very heavy, so competence in rigging is also required
The yearning, haunting atmosphere of this song is what really gets me. Though short, it transports you out onto that dusty endless midwestern plain with the empty road stretching into the hazy distance, a solitary telephone line strung from pole to pole, and a lonely lineman in dusty work clothes perched atop one of them and distracted by thoughts of a woman many miles away. It's a simple image but one you never forget.
One of the best lyrics ever written "I need you more than want you, and I want you for all time."
glen rules. this is one of those songs that you wish was twice as long. he sadly suffered from the dreaded alzheimer's until passing in 2017. we lost a national treasure . damn i miss him. and your last guess was right - a lineman is a power line and telephone line worker that repairs downed lines from storms , etc.
Glen had his own TV show at the end of the 1960s called the GLEN CAMPBELL GOODTIME HOUR. You can find episodes here on You tube. I never missed one when it was on the air.
"And I need you more than want you, and I want you for all time." Fantastic lyrics.
Love this line!! Really touches my heart everytime!!
The strings won my 15-year-old heart back in 1968 when I first heard this. Still gets me right here.
To me, this is Glen Campbell's best song. It is powerful, yet soothing and moving to me. Another great reaction, Shawn.
“Galveston” is a must. And please react to more from Bread!
Gorgeous song.
Oh yes! A very subdued anti-war protest song.
The live with Steve Warriner!
Glen was the man, great voice and a hell of a guitar player. He was also part of the wrecking crew, great one Shawn.
,,,and filled in on tour for Brian Wilson after his nervous breakdown. Wearing the striped shirt, playing bass, and singing harmonies.
...and he never learned to read music. He played everything by ear. Often after hearing it only once!
Jimmy Webb deserves his flowers as well.
One of THE best songs ever written. And performed by a true legend.
❤❤❤ I love "By The Time I Get To Phoenix" , "Gentle On My Mind" and "Galveston".
One of the best songs about mundane jobs and with the greatest line. “I need you more than want you, but I want you for all time”
Believe me, being a power lineman is NOT a mundane job. It's dangerous and mistakes can could harm you or your co-workers. Not many jobs out there where you want to go to work each day
This was one of several of Glen Campbell's hits written by the great Jimmy Webb. Check him out. Towering songwriting talent, superb pianist and fine singer. One particular Webb recording, a duet on his All I Know from 2010, was Linda Ronstadt's last recording...it is achingly lovely.
ahhh my childhood going to the beach with this on the radio. Glenn Campbell one of the greats!
Great recording, wonderful reaction. I've read Glen Campbell was a humble, generous, and super talented man.
Love Glen’s voice on this one and Carol Kaye’s excellent bass work!
My mom had all his 1960s records, so he was part of my musical soundscape growing up (born 1961). Great voice, great guitar, Jimmy Webb's awesome songwriting: a great early experience of great music. Shawn: you do great work. Keep it up!
Saw him in 1973 in the UK. He was brilliant! This is my favourite of his followed by Galveston. Always makes me cry.
That's Carol Kaye playing that bass line. Wrecking Crew!
I have been using electricity and phones my whole life.
Thanks Linemen
Galveston 🌹
Gentle on my Mind next! ❤
With John Hartford!
@@Grateful_Dad_54 I love John Hartford! I get a kick out of Golden Globe Award! 😂
Or his live playing of the William Tell Overture. Playing an electric 12-string on top of his head.
This song always gives me a haunted feeling .
This song reminds me of my dad, he loved this song. it's been 20 years since he left this earth in his mid-70s, but this song brings him right back
Glen was one of the best session musicians ever, also a member of the famous Wrecking Crew that played on hundreds of albums. He had Alzheimer's in his last few years and couldn't
remember people or places, but he would go on stage and play and sing his songs perfectly (the magic in the music stayed in his memories). In his final song, "I'M NOT GONNA MISS YOU,"
the lyrics speak of the inevitability of his illness and the reality that he would eventually forget his loved ones. It's heartbreakingly sad. The opening lines: "I'm still here, but yet I'm gone,
I don't play guitar or sing my songs." He acknowledged that while he may have been physically present, his mind was not. The song's chorus repeats the heartbreaking, "I'm not gonna
miss you. When you're gone, I'm not gonna miss you. I'm not gonna cry. I'm not gonna miss you." The song deeply touched people with the onset of dementia and Alzheimers.
ua-cam.com/video/Az_nSlhHBys/v-deo.htmlsi=AwKMM5riWoovG1Cn
Wow...that's so moving💔 Thank you for sharing that link.
Glen had worked as a guitarist with the Wrecking Crew and played behind the Beach Boys before heading solo.
This song is my favorite by Glen Campbell…thank you, Shawn! 👍♥️
Great Reaction! Glen Campbell was definitely one of the best vocalists AND guitar players of the time. Jimmy Webb was one of the best songwriters. Together they produced some unforgettable music! Actually there are a TON of famous singers, songwriters and other entertainers who came from Oklahoma, including David Gates of Bread! I thoroughly enjoy watching your reaction videos and I look forward to seeing more.
SO THIS WAS MY DUDE SHAWN💯 I LITERALLYYYY WENT FROM GLEN TO ( ELTON ) AND NEVERRRR LOOKED BACK! GLEN WAS THE VERYYYY VERY BEST BY FARRRRR👍 AND THE MAN DIDN'T EVEN READ MUSIC, PLAYED A 12 STRING GUITAR😮, TALK ABOUT INSANELYYY GOOD! 😊RIP GLEN☹, YOU WERE THE MUSIC MAN!
I'd just graduated high school. I was taking a year off to travel. I needed money. I took the 1st job I could get. I hated it. It paid $1.90/hr. I was taking the bus to this job I despised. This song came on the radio as I was leaving for work. It brought out a feeling in me I can't describe. Sadness, loneliness, melancholy, wistful. I still remember that feeling 60 years later.
Wow this is the music of my early early childhood. My favorite song by Bread by the way is Everything I Own. I associate it with my great grandma, who had a really special and close relationship with me as a little boy before she passed.
Is there someone you know... you're loving them so... but taking them all for granted...
Listen to Gentle on my Mind. Glen was actually one of the greatest guitarists of his day and that is saying a lot!
Hey good call on the phone line. Being raised in a wireless world it wouldn't dawn on most. It's really a sad love song, Shawn. He loves her but he's gotta maintain this huge area of phone lines and is always gone. The only way he talks to her is when he's "still on the line" working.
A lot of career long haul truckers relate to this song.
Glen Campbell was a member of The Beach Boys for a while in the 1960s. My Mom loved him and played his music all the time at our cottage in northern Michigan, so Glen always makes me feel good. "Galveston" is another great tune. I never liked "Rhinestone Cowboy," which I suspect is the first Glen Cambell song you listened to.
Glen Campbell was a guitar phenomenon , great singer and lyricist. He put out some wonderful songs. Thanks for reacting to him, well done Shawn.
Love this reaction, thanks so much Shawn!😊This song gives me chills every time I listen to it. Bob Dylan once called it “the greatest song ever written.” As others have mentioned, Glen Campbell got his start in “the Wrecking Crew,” as they are now known…I highly recommend the 2015 documentary of the same name (it has Glen and Jimmy Webb in it). Looking forward to the Glen Campbell reaction you had already recorded😊
And I need you more than want you
And I want you for all time
Great song. Jimmy Webb a great songwriter.
One of my absolute favorite songs & artists!! Thanks for playing this!!
Glen Campbell my favorite male Country singer of all time, bar none, always has been and always will be...
One of the best right there! Perfect song. So evocative.... And, yes--a great line.... Working out there on the telephone lines, lonely and in love. Thank you!💖🎇✨ P.S. And Bread is a really great band! Glad you like them so much. Glen Campbell's songs, By the Time I Get to Phoenix, Galveston, Southern Nights, Rhinestone Cowboy, and Gentle on My Mind were very popular. Way back when, he had a great TV variety show. It is amazing to watch him perform. Tom Jones had his own TV show also.
My favorite Glenn Campbell song. It's beautiful & emotive. There's nothing "country" about it. No Hawaiian guitar. Just a beautiful studio strings arrangement.
One of the greatest recordings ever made. Timeless. Played guitar with Elvis and the Beach Boys. Perfect song
I haven’t heard this song in a long time🎼♥️so beautiful🌷 This music reminds me of my Dad 💙 he was a fan of Glen Campbell♥️
So was my mother 🥰
Nice! Glen Campbell was so talented! There is a video on UA-cam of Glenn Campbell & Johnny Cash & Roger Miller backing up John Denver live on “Thank God I’m a Country Boy!” Worth checking out! Thank you whoever did the donation request! 😀
Great lineup, love Roger Miller!
One of my absolute favorite songs of all time!
One of the greatest guitarists of any genre. Did you know Glenn was a "Beach Boy" for a short while? Glenn was also a member of the famous studio recording Band in Los Angeles called "The Wrecking Crew." They were the guys that played the music in recording sessions for artists and even Bands, when cutting an album. You had to be one of the best at your particular instrument to do that sort of work, and Glenn was. Sadly, Glenn died of Alzheimer's dementia a couple of years ago. Great guy, and a great artist.
Feels like just a couple years ago...he died in 2017😢
I've never been into Country music that much but Glen had something special that transcended musical genres. What a gorgeous song. My groups of choice are Yes, Rush, LZ, and Pink Floyd, but I could listen to this song almost every day and never get tired of it.
If you like this style of Country/Pop, Shawn, you should react to Ronnie Milsap and his great song "Smokey Mountain Rain." ❤✌
He wants her for all time and needs her more than that...just beautiful!!
I was born in 1993. But having seen movies from the 1960s as well as old photos of my hometown in the country, this song makes me envision a beautiful summer day in my town in 1969, the smell of freshly mown grass, hearing buzzing insects on the water, reading a book in the sun with a big glass of ice tea on the side
Visceral
I always loved Glen! Next time you are in a country mood, give a listen to Mac Davis' song "It's Hard to be Humble". Mac was primarily known as a songwriter, but he had some big hits as a singer as well, and this one was just so much fun. The only problem is that the chorus will be stuck in your head for the rest of the day!
Linemen like so many other American workers all over the country keep things up and running and that's why it pisses me off when politicians and big money big shots call American workers "lazy" and "overpaid". Don't get me started....haha. Anyway, love this song by the great Jimmy Webb. The song is genius.
Unforgettable tune that catapulted him to stardom. He was one of the very first crossover singers from country to pop! Later became a superstar in the industry!okay Shawn if you really like a well written love song sung with feeling then you MUST react to the tune ON and ON by Stephen Bishop as well as his song Madge!
It's stuck a shame people don't swamp comments for bread. They were my 1st concert in '70. They've remained near me, so dear still many decades past. I love this one too.
Glen's T.V. show was must-watch T.V. back in the day. This song is so great on every level. I just wish it was longer.
Hard to imagine Glenn and Alice Cooper used to play golf together. Shawn, a great guest that was on Glenn's show was JOHN HARTFORD, when you have time look the guy up, you won't be disappointed. A fiddle player/ banjo player who also was a river boat captain.
While I've always enjoyed Glen Campbell's music, my real fav is the songwriter, Jimmy Webb, who wrote many of Glen's hits. He also wrote a song recorded by Judy Collins, 'The Moon's a Harsh Mistress', if you want to check it out.
You're playing all my favorites today!
I still have my Bread album,and Their Greats Hits CD. Awesome Memores When I Hear Glen Campble & Bread! 😊
As someone else said (and 25 people liked) Galveston is a must. Do the live with Steve Warriner. It's some incredible guitar skills from Glen there.
Wow… 🥰
I grew up listening to his music. Glen Campbell was one of the most talented entertainers & guitarists in the world. He had a lot of hits such as "By the Time I Get To Phoenix", "Gentle On My Mind", "Dreams Of The Everyday Housewife", "Galveston", "Try A Little Kindness", "Rhinestone Cowboy", "Southern Nights" etc. Sadly he got Alzheimer's later in life. The last song he recorded was "I'm Not Gonna Miss You".
Gentle On My Mind!
This was the first one most brits heard in the UK by Glenn Campbell. Probably the best too. I like the way the sound evokes the wide open lonely spaces, and the lyrics tell the life of an ordinary working Joe. Jim my Webb did write other stuff, you ought to look him up.
Glenn had other hits - Galveston is good.Rhinestone Cowboy was successful for him but it's not my favourite. He was a good guitar player.
The glory that is Wichita Lineman - Aussie here and I have been listening to this song since the 60s and it still gets me every time.
Recommend to anyone who has not seen it……The Wrecking Crew…documentary / film….
Jimmy Webb genius!
Glen, Jimmy Webb and the Wrecking Crew are all worth researching. Glen was a consummate performer. He couldn’t read music but was a session musician with the Wrecking Crew, a great singer and guitarist, was comfortable with TV and audiences. The song has received accolades for many sources including Bob Dylan who said “it is the best song ever written”.
Another great singer from the great state of Arkansas .
SOUNDS LIKE YOU MIGHT GET INTO A GLEN CAMPBELL DIVE, THATTTTT WOULD BE COOL! 😊HERE'S SOME GR8888 VIDEOS SHAWN : BACK HOME IN INDIANA, GENTLE ON MY MIND, WILLIAM TELL OVERTURE ( A MUST )💯 YOU'LL BE BLOWN AWAY AT HIS PERFORMANCE👍, HE GETS AN OVATION AT THE END, IT'S THE TV SHOW SONG ( LONE RANGER ) WHICH WAS GLEN'S FAVORITE, THE LONE RANGER AND TONTO. I CAN GO ON N ON BUT I'LL STOP FOR NOW!
Songs about football players always get to me. My furuncle was a lineman for the Hooterville Knuckleheads back in Aught Six, whatever that means. So when you get around to doing songs about football linemen, lemme know. Not so happy about the phone company just now. Silliness aside, this is why Glen and Jimmy Webb are permanent fixtures in the history of American music. And you teased out the most pregnant line. Even the thought of it moves me.
If you want to see just how good he was on guitar, you need to watch him do "William Tell Overture". ua-cam.com/video/jjTI4VRX39Y/v-deo.htmlsi=LTT03WwBIhbO3Z1g
Fun fact: The beautiful horn & string arrangements were done by none other than Al De Lory, who was this song's producer. Thanks, Shawn!
I bet he can only take a vacation when it rains. It's too dangerous to work on the high voltage wires in the rain.
I'm hoping you figured it out because back in my day the electrical wires were above ground the ground and running alongside a road from pole to pole. And that's how we got our electricity. So that's why we had lineman who went up on top of the pole when something needed repair and kept our electricity running
Another great reaction from you, Shawn! 😁
Electrical power line man. Keeps the juice flowing.
Great tune. But I actually like "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" a bit better. Both are fantastic!
Power lines.
This song is considered the best American popular song of all time. I do think that you can find a live version that is more riveting. A lineman works on telephone lines back in the day when they were all above ground strung together by telephone poles.
Nicely done Shawn! May I suggest Country Boy (You Got Your Feet In L.A.) - Glen Campbell next. So emotional you'll love it!
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galveston
Great review. Distant cousin of John Denver isn't too far off the mark. Great observation.
Glen had a great voice. Jimmy Webb is a great songwriter.
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GOOGLE The Wrecking Crew, be prepared to have your mind blown.
Gene Pitney
Galveston?
Please check out this sad song by George Strait about his daughter who was killed in a car accident called BABY BLUE.
Great reaction! Could you please do "Galveston" next?
Campbell > Denver
Jimmy Webb.
This was a song by the amazing and very unrecognized songwriter, Jimmy Webb. He wrote a lot of great songs.
"Wichita Lineman" is a 1968 song written by Jimmy Webb for American country music artist Glen Campbell, who recorded it backed by members of the Wrecking Crew. wiki