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     Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.111.14.192 |
And you should, it's lovely. Lush with those windswept slide guitars and strings. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=az2LlYyuoZQ | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.111.14.192 |
You see, some folk can still do it years on. Some ... well, they really shouldn't... http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=w8-iIJblnO8 To be fair to Cliff, he's a canny old lad. When he realised that he couldn't have a festive Number One because of the X-Factor acts at Xmas, he decided to try another day; but Easter and Mother's Day didn't peg out for him, so he invented Sir Cliff Day. And, astonishingly, made it to number 3 in the charts . . . But Glen Campbell's the man. Voice like that, the baritone answer to Bono's tenor. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 89.168.184.170 |
Despite the lack of responses, this is actually a very important thread, you know. I just thought I'd point that out. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
You should never have mentioned Cliff Richard. That's enough to kill any discussion. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
Glen Campbell had the good fortune to team up with one of the greatest living songwriters, Jimmy Webb. I could rant about 'Wichita Lineman' and 'By the Time I Get to Phoenix' at great length, but I'll spare you any more comment than that they are terse, poignant, uneasy portraits of obsession and loneliness. Every word of those songs does more work than a whole Robbie Wiilams album. I read an article about 'Phoenix' by a journalist obsessed with the song. If you trace the journey described, he says, you'll find that the narrator would have to be driving at near-illegal speed without pausing to eat or sleep. That's how desperate he is. But it's all the future. When's he going? Is he going at all? Disturbing stuff. And this isn't meant to detract from Glen Campbell, whose renditions of both songs are tender and haunting. I once sang 'Wichita Lineman' at a pub karaoke night. I was rubbish. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
Cliff...Robbie... I officially declare this discussion dead. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.110.221.167 |
You mean we don't talk any more? | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
If only he didn't sing. | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.43.119.113 |
Only just picked up on this. Yes, campbell is a great interpretive artist and i second what Joel says...Wichita Lineman, Galveston and By The Time I Get To Phoenix are quintessential Americana...Kinda like Stephen King in song....It may not be real, but it should be. "Searching in the sun, for another...overload" Lovely. gcw | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.108.23.216 |
When I left a previous job, I e-mailed the following to a longtime colleague: By the time I get to Walsall they'll be printing And they'll run around shouting, 'Where's that Joel?' But I'll be on that train and I'll be smiling Because I'll never let those bastards own my soul | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 85.158.137.195 |
I do quite like a bit o' Glen Campbell, although I don't know anything of his beyond the well known ones - plus a few tracks off his new one, which is all covers as he's doing a Rubin/Cash... | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.231.91 |
Is he doing "St James Infirmary" by any chance? |