Post #4048132
2026-07-23 22:31 UTC
@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org @cookiesinheaven@m.ai6yr.org You may not think you know who Glen Campbell is. but you've heard him a thousand times. One of the 60s most in-demand session guitarists before he started a career as a headliner.
Side story about Wichita Lineman...Campbell had a huge hit with Jimmy Webb's By The Time I Get To Phoenix in 1967. He told Webb to write him another "place" song, so he started on a tune. He showed Cmpbell half of it, and Campbell said that was good enough; don't bother finishing it.
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@W6KME@mastodon.radio 2026-07-23 22:36
@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org @cookiesinheaven@m.ai6yr.org SOme tunes he played on...You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin,, Viva Las Vegas, Strangers In The Night, I'm a Believer, Good Vibrations...he was part of The Wrecking Crew, that played on basically everybody's hit records in the 60s.
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@paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange 2026-07-23 22:56
@W6KME@mastodon.radio @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org @cookiesinheaven@m.ai6yr.org carol kaye, bass player in the wrecking crew, did that amazing bass intro to wichita lineman. jimmy webb is an amazing songwriter, very harmonlcally and melodically complex stuff. art garfunkel did a whole album of jimmy webb tunes (watermark). beautiful stuff.