All of those are great. A couple of lesser hits that I fondly remember are "Dreams Of The Everyday Housewife", and his cover of Gordon Lightfoot's "The Last Time I Saw Her".
Glen's daughter "Ashley" is also a singer, and she wrote a song for her father called; "I'll do the remembering." She wrote this after Glen started suffering from alzheimers disease and couldn't remember her anymore. It's such a beautiful tribute to him. May he RIP. 😢
J & Amber, You'll Love his "Gentle on My Mind" and "Galveston" !!!! He had a long running TV variety show called 'The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour'. He was an excellent guitar player, who was often sought for session work by other artists!
Glen’s show and Mac Davis’ shows were the best!!! Have they done Mac’s “Oh Lord It’s Hard To Be Humble”??? I’ve been so behind on their posts! It’s embarrassing….
Country pop was definitely popular in the 60s and 70s. He was a LA session guitarist before he became a vocalist. He was part of the "wrecking crew" this was his last #1 on the billboard hot 100 in 1977. He was born in Arkansas
Glen can't be pigeon holed. He's a session musician who can play guitar for any style music. He played with the Beach Boys. And he's one of the most amazing guitar players.
Glen was born and raised in Arkansas. Oh, by the way that little walk-down guitar lick he does just before he starts singing the verses, he learned it from Jerry Reed on one of Jerry's songs. So, he incorporated it into "Southern Nights'. There's a great live video of Glen and Jerry playing that song together where he divulges that bit of interesting information.
Originally Glenn was a member of the great Wrecking Crew. Used by the studios to record other Artists music because they were so good it minimized the retakes so time and tape were saved by using these professional musicians..
This song was written and originally recorded by New Orleans musician Allen Toussaint. Toussaint also wrote songs that were recorded by the Pointer Sisters amongst others. Two songs of his they did were Yes We Can, Can when they were still a quartet. Their other song from him is called Happiness, recorded once they were a trio. You should check them out sometime.
As much as I love Glen Campbell's music, I much prefer Allen Toussaint's original version of "Southern Nights". A much more low-key, reflective vibe. Motion seconded on "Yes We Can Can" by The Pointer Sisters. You must react to the live version featuring Gaylord Birch on drums.
@@danieldickson8591 he was a member of the Wreaking Crew....and he went on tour as a Beach Boy replacing Brian Wilson that wanted to stay home and write Pet Sounds....which all 4 of the Beatles said was their favorite album and came out with Sgt Peppers to counter it....
Glenn was also a world class guitarist. Among the very best. His video on youtube where he brings The William Tell Overture (also remembered as the theme of The Lone Ranger) to electric guitar is absolutely amazing and should be one of your reaction productions. You will love it.
Absolutely, PLEASE watch and react to Glen Campbell playing his guitar 🎸 with an Orchestra play the William Tell Overture! It's on RUclips and you will be blown away! I've seen and heard many Orchestras and watched guitar players in my lifetime, even played in some . . . BUT . . . I've never seen anything like Glen playing that piece 😳. I was stunned. I can't wait to see you react to it! TY and great work . . . from your Kansas friend, Odie! 🌻 🌻 🌻 🌻 🌻 🌻 🌻 🌻 🌻
Funny story about a weeping willow. My hubby and I got married at his parents house in the North Carolina mountains, 26 years ago. A small creek ran through their front yard and there was a big, beautiful, weeping willow tree growing along the bank of the creek. As everyone was running around like a chicken with their head cut off trying to prepare me, (the bride) and the home for the wedding, no one could find my wonderful husband. He was lying under the weeping willow just sleeping away like it was any other day. To this day he is still that same chill guy!! Great memory!! As for Glen Campbell, if you really want to get blown away, react to Glen playing "William Tell Overture" on his guitar!!
Jay and Amber - I would highly recommend the very last song Glen recorded before he passed - "I'm not gonna miss you" written from the perspective of someone who has Alzheimer's disease. Though Glen was in the mid-late stages of the disease, he sang and delivered the song flawlessly in a minimum amount of takes, as he always did. The song won an Emmy for best country song in 2014.
Glen is from Arkansas! As a kid growing up in Arkansas they played his music a lot, even on the pop stations. That song went to number one on three different charts. Btw, Jerry Reed taught him that guitar riff, played on a 12 string electric. Major superstar, session player on many hit records in the 60's, had his own TV show for awhile, right up there with Cash and Presley. Great choice guys!
Yes, indeed! I remember if you were going to an event at night, like a fireworks show or something, there’s no way you weren’t going to hear this song. It was practically a law.
theres a great live version of this filmed at Nashville Shores , Glen & Jerry Reed whom he gives credit to the riff to Jerry Glen is one of my best earliest memories FYI a Weeping Willow needs an awful lot of ground water to survive
As others have said..he was a member of the Wrecking Crew. They were a group of elite studio musicians who played on MANY hits for many artists. They were Phil Specter's session musicians for his "Wall of Sound" productions
I came to see if a million people already said this. Lol, I expected attacks from George Strait fans. Haha. (I wondered if they mixed it up with Galveston, another Texas city, but I don't think they've done that one yet.)
Glen Campbell was from Arkansas, if you want to see him live you can check out the live show he did from Sioux falls South Dakota. It was an amazing concert and is on RUclips no less
Glenn is from Arkansas. My wife likes the trees in LA with Spanish Moss hanging from them. Weeping Willow has too many memories of "Boy, Go Cut Me a Switch" associated with them.
His first big hit was "Gentle On My Mind," and I think it tends to hold up well. "Southern Nights" was I think maybe his last real hit. In his heyday, he had his own variety TV show for a few years, and hits like "Galveston," "Wichita Lineman," and "By the Time I Get to Phoenix." A guitar great, he began his career as part of the Wrecking Crew who played for recording studios. He was born in Arkansas.
Both this song and Rhinestone Cowboy went to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1975-76. It was a great time of success for Campbell. A good GC song to check out next is "Galveston," the follow-up hit to "Wichita Lineman." From 1969, it's the story of a young soldier in a war, missing his girl back in Galveston. Written by the great Jimmy Webb.
Glenn Campbell was great musician. Part of the session band "wrecking crew" which played on many 60's artist hits. He even had his own TV show from 1969-1972. From Arkansas, you need to react to "Country Boy" next. Thanks. 😎
This is my favorite Glen Campbell song! Very upbeat and fun. My dad put this on repeat on his 8 track when we moved from San Francisco to San Diego back in 1976 😊
0:07 "Amarillo By Morning" was by George Strait in 1982. (It was originally recorded by Terry Stafford in 1973). I can find no record of it ever being recorded by Glen Campbell
As a kid in Norther Cali, we had a Weepin Willow, what a fun tree, until you were due for a spaken . We use to have switch fights from the branches on the tree......it was brutal, but fun.
He was originally from Arkansas, later Nashiville, TN. He was a member of "The Wrecking Crew", studio musicians out of L.A., he played on many hit records. Was one of the finest guitar players around.There are several live versions of him playing the William Tell Overture (the Lone Ranger theme) that are absolutely spectacular.
I was thinking of y'all today because I recalled a song that I knew y'all would LOVE!! It is entitled "You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma," performed by Dave Frizzel and Shelly West. It was a selection of Clint Eastwood for one of his three comedy movies made between 1978 and 1984. This one appeared in the last one, "Any Which Way but Loose," which featured music by Eddue Rabbit and others. Please give it a try. Y'all will LOVE it!!
It is a sweltering 94 degrees here in Des Moines Iowa. I feel like this song was meant for today. Here. Now. I hear this and I feel like I am in the south, somewhere.
Pop stations in the early 70s used to play Glen Campbell. I remember being 8 years old singing Rhinestone Cowboy at the top of my lungs. He was probably my first celebrity crush.
Glen is one of those ultra rare artistes who is blessed with supreme vocal talent, while being an elite guitarist up there with Clapton and Hendrix in terms of sheer virtuosity on the guitar. Before he achieved fame in his own right he was one of the top session guitarists in Los Angeles in the 60's. Playing on sessions for the Beach Boys, Frank Sinatra and countless others. On record, it's his wonderful voice which is to the fore, but live he always did some amazing work on the guitar too.
Glenn is from Bilistown close to Delite Arkansas, born to a sharecropper, the seventh son of 12 siblings, His father gave him his first guitar at 7 and the rest is history., You need to see and hear Galveston and see one of the best guitarists ever. Glen became a member of the Wrecking Crew and played guitar on hundreds if not thousands of Albums.
Amarillo By Morning is George Stait. Gentle On My Mind, By the Time I Get To Phoenix, Try a Little Tinderness, Country Boy(You've Got Your Feet In L.A.), and The Hand That Rocks the Cradle are all great Glen Campbell songs!
We had a super large tall weeping willow tree in the backyard of the house I grew up in. It was the best tree for kids that like to tree climb. Kids from all over the neighborhood would come over just to climb our tree. It also was great for shade. We had a picnic table underneath it for lunch in the backyard.
Guys the other song you did of him was rhinestone cowboy not Amarillo by morning. That was George Strait. Glen was a bit poppy by most country standards. Brilliant guitar player. Member of the wrecking crew a group of really great studio musicians who played on a lot of peoples albums. He was also a member of the backing band for the beach boys way back when. Oh and Glen was from Arkansas.
ALAN’s version is from the soul with the story of where he came from. His live performance was my number one show I ever saw just the man the shoes and his piano.
I bought this 45 when it was on the chart. I brought it home and played it. I flipped it over and played the B side. Holy smokes !! The studio version of William Tell Overture ! That man was an amazing guitar player !!
His guitar play is EPIC. He was a studio musician for many popular bands with credits on other artists records before he was solo and super successful. He live play of the "Lone Ranger Theme" intro is wild fire.
A good ole country boy from Arkansas who very quickly became one of the most sought after studio musicians in LA. Next came the hit records, his own TV variety show and costarring in True Grit with John Wayne!
Glenn Campbell is a legend in his own right. He started out as one of the Wrecking Crew, a group of back up musicans in the LA area that were known for their music abilities. Then he went out on his own and had a hit show in the late 60's and early 70's. Your next song you should react to is By The Time I Get To 6:06 Phoenix.
Amber, you like Willow Trees. Here's a song for you -- Chad and Jeremy, "Willow Weep for Me," 1964. Big, big hit written in 1932. C&J were part of the British Invasion.
I took two years of horticulture and the guy who taught it also owned and operated his own landscaping and garden center for over 40 years. One day a young lady raised her hand in class and described how she always thought weeping willows were so beautiful, wanted one for her own yard and asked the instructor what he thought of them. He replied, "I love them and think they're an incredibly gorgeous tree, as long as they're on someone else's lawn." He laughed and just reminded her that she needed to be prepared to do a lot of raking and picking up after them.
Born in Billstown, Arkansas, Glen Campbell was such an icon, and Southern Nights was his last #1. Next time, please listen to his medley of Don’t Pull Your Love/Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye. Lovely!
Amber & Jay, on your movie channel you must watch the original True Grit, from 1969. It starred John Wayne AND Glen Campbell, who also sang the opening theme song, True Grit, to the movie.
This was such a great 'feel good' tune to play just sitting out on the front porch. The kind of song that drew the neighbors over just to sit and chat. Kind of like stopping time for just a few minutes where we all just sat and grooved together. Such great memories!!!
Amber, Weeping Willow trees literally weep sticky sap from the branches & leaves. Also, craggy Willow Tree bark is a favorite hiding place for cockroaches. The trees ARE beautiful, you will want a VERY large piece of property to plant them FAR AWAY from the house. 😊
And a whole host of songs and as producer arranger especially in New Orleans. Check out The Band "Rock of Ages" where he did all the horn arrangements with the same charts used on 'The Last Waltz".
This song has so many odd polar-opposite things going on at once, it has the disco groove of that era, yet the horns sound like the 30s, and then there's a lot of banjo, which doesn't normally fit with the aforementioned
Something you need to know Campbell was the most prolific studio guitarist in history one year doing 600 sessions including Strangers In The Night.As a vocalist he started with Turn Around Look At Me in 1961 which later became hits for The Lettermen and The Vogues.He also was in The Champs after they had Tequila.BTW so were Seals and Krofts in the early 60's.
This song was written by New Orleans legend Allen Toussaint. You can look on RUclips and find him performing his composition. He also wrote Yes You Can Can that was a big hit for the Pointer Sisters in the early 70s.
My favorite Glen Campbell song! I got to see him perform it live. I love the way he layers in the instruments with each chorus. The song wouldn’t sound the same without the banjo! 🪕
When I was a kid, my stepdad's family and the Campbell family would get together on a Friday night a couple of times each summer and play music late into the night. Sadly, every time Glen was home, I was out of town. Billstown is only a few miles away.
My mom was a big fan so i grew up listening to his music as a kid. Great singer and really good guitar player. Played on many records for other artist.
If you had put Glen Campbell, George Jones, and Gordon Lightfoot in front of my dad, and told him he could only choose one, his head might have exploded.
I was blessed to see him in concert prior to his memory loss when he played with The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra.It was an incredible evening I will always cherish 🎶👍
Check out Glenn Campbell singing a John Hartford song called Gentle on My Mind. It’s a unique song in that there is no Refrain that breaks the song. It’s one of my absolute favorite songs. John Hartford wrote it for his wife, Mary. ❤❤❤
“Wichita lineman”. “Galveston” . “ By the time I get to phoenix “ “Gentle on my mind” are great Glen Campbell songs.
All recorded by Glen but not written by him.
@@krazyj1957 first 3 were written by Jimmy Webb....and I saw his show last night in Nashville.....
They have reacted to the first one.
I Love My Truck.
All of those are great. A couple of lesser hits that I fondly remember are "Dreams Of The Everyday Housewife", and his cover of Gordon Lightfoot's "The Last Time I Saw Her".
Glen's daughter "Ashley" is also a singer, and she wrote a song for her father called; "I'll do the remembering." She wrote this after Glen started suffering from alzheimers disease and couldn't remember her anymore. It's such a beautiful tribute to him. May he RIP. 😢
Love that song. She’s very talented.
Agreed. I think they'd love it.
They should react to the documentary film, Glen Campbell: I'll be Me, on their other channel. They'll cry, and they'll love it.
I saw his family on RUclips right before Glen Campbell passed 😢
That’s amazing. I told that to my aunt. “ don’t worry you’re forgetting, I’ll do the remembering “
J & Amber, You'll Love his "Gentle on My Mind" and "Galveston" !!!! He had a long running TV variety show called 'The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour'. He was an excellent guitar player, who was often sought for session work by other artists!
What a GREAT SHOW!!!! I guess we might be a bit older than most with that one!!!
Glen’s show and Mac Davis’ shows were the best!!!
Have they done Mac’s “Oh Lord It’s Hard To Be Humble”??? I’ve been so behind on their posts! It’s embarrassing….
@@BabsisHere I don't see any reactions for Mac Davis by them.
Glen was originally a member of "The Wrecking Crew."
Also The Dreams of the Everyday Housewife.
Fun Fact: As a member of The Wrecking Crew, he was one of the studio guitars on The Monkees' first album.
He did the horn arrangements for two of The Band's albums as well as The Last Waltz concert.
LOVE LOVE LOVE Wichita Lineman. The lyrics always crush me:
"And I need you more than want you
And I want you for all time"
Was a member of The Wreaking Crew. A famous studio musical group who played on many famous albums
Country pop was definitely popular in the 60s and 70s. He was a LA session guitarist before he became a vocalist. He was part of the "wrecking crew" this was his last #1 on the billboard hot 100 in 1977. He was born in Arkansas
He was even with the Beach Boys for a short while.
Your next Glen Campbell reaction should be “Gentle on My Mind”. Be sure it’s the live version, Homecoming at the Ryman.
So, so good!
"I'll play one"... proceeds to melt everyone's face off.
lovethat video.
Please please Yes !
his guitar solo on that blows the mind
Check out Glen and Roy Clark playing duets of "Riders in the Sky." They make those guitars "SING"
Both are highly respected and killer guitarist.
absolutley. the 2 most underated guitarists. How they do not make the top ten is a crime
I loved watching his variety tv show as a kid. Thanks!
Mac Davis, Sonny n Cher, Hee haw, Donny n Marie, Carol Barnett Show. We need these types of shows back on TV 😅
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour!
@@TB6791We do, but there are no current music stars that can even approach the talent level of the ones you listed.
Started out on the Smothers Brothers
Ahh I forgot Laugh In 🤪
Glen Campbell was always one of my favorites. An early hit of his that I like is "Where's the Playground, Susie".
Glen can't be pigeon holed. He's a session musician who can play guitar for any style music. He played with the Beach Boys. And he's one of the most amazing guitar players.
Glen was born and raised in Arkansas. Oh, by the way that little walk-down guitar lick he does just before he starts singing the verses, he learned it from Jerry Reed on one of Jerry's songs. So, he incorporated it into "Southern Nights'. There's a great live video of Glen and Jerry playing that song together where he divulges that bit of interesting information.
Jerry helped him figure out that turn around on the guitar. The original songwriter had done that turn around on the piano
Originally Glenn was a member of the great Wrecking Crew. Used by the studios to record other Artists music because they were so good it minimized the retakes so time and tape were saved by using these professional musicians..
This song was written and originally recorded by New Orleans musician Allen Toussaint. Toussaint also wrote songs that were recorded by the Pointer Sisters amongst others. Two songs of his they did were Yes We Can, Can when they were still a quartet. Their other song from him is called Happiness, recorded once they were a trio. You should check them out sometime.
Yes. Allen Toussaint is a New Orleans musical legend. Brilliant song writer and producer.
Love those early Pointer Sisters albums when they were a jazz group!
Toussaint also had a hit of his own, the slow, melancholy ballad "Nothing Takes the Place of You" (1967). Very different from this tune!
I prefer the Allen Toussaint version.
As much as I love Glen Campbell's music, I much prefer Allen Toussaint's original version of "Southern Nights". A much more low-key, reflective vibe.
Motion seconded on "Yes We Can Can" by The Pointer Sisters. You must react to the live version featuring Gaylord Birch on drums.
Gentle on my Mind
Love" By the time I get to Phoenix," That was the first Glen Campbell's song i heard- loved it
Thats my favourite too
Glenn is an amazing musician. He played guitar on lots of other peoples albums. Wichita Lineman is another good song of his.
They said they've already done Wichita Lineman at the start.
Glenn Campell was well known among professional musicians as an exceptional guitarist. He worked with many big names before hitting it big on his own.
@@danieldickson8591 he was a member of the Wreaking Crew....and he went on tour as a Beach Boy replacing Brian Wilson that wanted to stay home and write Pet Sounds....which all 4 of the Beatles said was their favorite album and came out with Sgt Peppers to counter it....
@@danieldickson8591 Glenn was very good friends with, of all people, Alice Cooper. They were neighbours for years.
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Glenn was also a world class guitarist. Among the very best. His video on youtube where he brings The William Tell Overture (also remembered as the theme of The Lone Ranger) to electric guitar is absolutely amazing and should be one of your reaction productions. You will love it.
Absolutely, PLEASE watch and react to Glen Campbell playing his guitar 🎸 with an Orchestra play the William Tell Overture! It's on RUclips and you will be blown away! I've seen and heard many Orchestras and watched guitar players in my lifetime, even played in some . . . BUT . . . I've never seen anything like Glen playing that piece 😳. I was stunned. I can't wait to see you react to it!
TY and great work . . . from your Kansas friend, Odie! 🌻 🌻 🌻 🌻 🌻 🌻 🌻 🌻 🌻
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Glen Campbell was a highly respected artist here, with wonderful songs like this one.
My favorite Glen Campbell song is "Dreams of the Everyday Housewife". The lyrics will touch your heart.
Fantastic song
Funny story about a weeping willow. My hubby and I got married at his parents house in the North Carolina mountains, 26 years ago. A small creek ran through their front yard and there was a big, beautiful, weeping willow tree growing along the bank of the creek. As everyone was running around like a chicken with their head cut off trying to prepare me, (the bride) and the home for the wedding, no one could find my wonderful husband. He was lying under the weeping willow just sleeping away like it was any other day. To this day he is still that same chill guy!! Great memory!! As for Glen Campbell, if you really want to get blown away, react to Glen playing "William Tell Overture" on his guitar!!
Glen was also one of the greatest guitarists of all time
Jay and Amber - I would highly recommend the very last song Glen recorded before he passed - "I'm not gonna miss you" written from the perspective of someone who has Alzheimer's disease. Though Glen was in the mid-late stages of the disease, he sang and delivered the song flawlessly in a minimum amount of takes, as he always did.
The song won an Emmy for best country song in 2014.
Glen is from Arkansas! As a kid growing up in Arkansas they played his music a lot, even on the pop stations. That song went to number one on three different charts. Btw, Jerry Reed taught him that guitar riff, played on a 12 string electric. Major superstar, session player on many hit records in the 60's, had his own TV show for awhile, right up there with Cash and Presley. Great choice guys!
Yes, my grandmother was friendly with Glen's mother.
@@bigtip8371 that's cool!
Yes, indeed! I remember if you were going to an event at night, like a fireworks show or something, there’s no way you weren’t going to hear this song. It was practically a law.
Galveston is a must listen.
Yes, I love Galveston! By The Time I Get To Phoenix is also a great one, a nice gentle ballad.
Agree, favorite GC song
theres a great live version of this filmed at Nashville Shores , Glen & Jerry Reed whom he gives credit to the riff to Jerry
Glen is one of my best earliest memories
FYI a Weeping Willow needs an awful lot of ground water to survive
As others have said..he was a member of the Wrecking Crew. They were a group of elite studio musicians who played on MANY hits for many artists. They were Phil Specter's session musicians for his "Wall of Sound" productions
"Galveston " is an amazing Glen Campbell song, and he was one of the best guitar players ever .
Many of his songs ‘crossed over’ to the pop charts, and did well; that’s how good he was!! Very good guitarist, played the 12 string a lot
Playing the William Tell overture live (you can find it on RUclips) will show you what an elite guitar player he was.
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Amarillo By Morning is not Glen Campbell - that was George Strait.
I came to see if a million people already said this. Lol, I expected attacks from George Strait fans. Haha. (I wondered if they mixed it up with Galveston, another Texas city, but I don't think they've done that one yet.)
That is the very first thing I thought of. Thanks for bringing it to their attention!
Glen Campbell was from Arkansas, if you want to see him live you can check out the live show he did from Sioux falls South Dakota. It was an amazing concert and is on RUclips no less
Glen was a member of the Wrecking Crew. That's him rockin' out on the Monkee's "Steppin' Stone" and so many others...
Glenn is from Arkansas. My wife likes the trees in LA with Spanish Moss hanging from them. Weeping Willow has too many memories of "Boy, Go Cut Me a Switch" associated with them.
Yes. I believe the tree behind the picture of Glenn has Spanish moss hanging on it and is not a Weeping Willow ( which is a beautiful tree ).
Moms could go outright Indiana Jones with those weeping willow switches. I can tell you that much.
His first big hit was "Gentle On My Mind," and I think it tends to hold up well. "Southern Nights" was I think maybe his last real hit. In his heyday, he had his own variety TV show for a few years, and hits like "Galveston," "Wichita Lineman," and "By the Time I Get to Phoenix." A guitar great, he began his career as part of the Wrecking Crew who played for recording studios.
He was born in Arkansas.
Both this song and Rhinestone Cowboy went to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1975-76. It was a great time of success for Campbell. A good GC song to check out next is "Galveston," the follow-up hit to "Wichita Lineman." From 1969, it's the story of a young soldier in a war, missing his girl back in Galveston. Written by the great Jimmy Webb.
Glenn Campbell was great musician. Part of the session band "wrecking crew" which played on many 60's artist hits. He even had his own TV show from 1969-1972. From Arkansas, you need to react to "Country Boy" next. Thanks. 😎
This is my favorite Glen Campbell song! Very upbeat and fun. My dad put this on repeat on his 8 track when we moved from San Francisco to San Diego back in 1976 😊
Written by Allen Toussaint in New Orleans, my home city. That's why the Louisiana vibes. And yes it played on both the pop and country stations.
0:07 "Amarillo By Morning" was by George Strait in 1982. (It was originally recorded by Terry Stafford in 1973). I can find no record of it ever being recorded by Glen Campbell
The song wasn't that I know of!
This is one of my favorites! 7:53 pm here in Marietta, Georgia and it's 91 degrees F
Few months ago, you reacted to Mason Williams' 'Classical Gas'. Glen Campbell was one of the session musicians playing on it. Great guitarist!
As a kid in Norther Cali, we had a Weepin Willow, what a fun tree, until you were due for a spaken . We use to have switch fights from the branches on the tree......it was brutal, but fun.
One of the most sought after session guitarist’s and backing vocalists for a huge range of acts before he became a singer. Yeah I love this.
I dig this style of country. He’s got soul in his voice too
He was originally from Arkansas, later Nashiville, TN. He was a member of "The Wrecking Crew", studio musicians out of L.A., he played on many hit records. Was one of the finest guitar players around.There are several live versions of him playing the William Tell Overture (the Lone Ranger theme) that are absolutely spectacular.
Those trees with the Spanish Moss grow all over the South. There is a wonderful eerieness about them.
Especially in swampier areas.
Country disco. It's not what I look for now, but it was when I was 12 and 13. I remember that kid. He's still in me, somewhere.
Glen Campbell was also a great guitar player. Back Home Again In Indiana is just one example of his talent
R.I.P To A Great Singer Actor Glen Campbell, Still Miss You
A fine song from Glen with a country and upbeat sound-Colin Ward
I was thinking of y'all today because I recalled a song that I knew y'all would LOVE!! It is entitled "You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma," performed by Dave Frizzel and Shelly West. It was a selection of Clint Eastwood for one of his three comedy movies made between 1978 and 1984. This one appeared in the last one, "Any Which Way but Loose," which featured music by Eddue Rabbit and others. Please give it a try. Y'all will LOVE it!!
It is a sweltering 94 degrees here in Des Moines Iowa. I feel like this song was meant for today. Here. Now. I hear this and I feel like I am in the south, somewhere.
Pop stations in the early 70s used to play Glen Campbell. I remember being 8 years old singing Rhinestone Cowboy at the top of my lungs. He was probably my first celebrity crush.
Glen is one of those ultra rare artistes who is blessed with supreme vocal talent, while being an elite guitarist up there with Clapton and Hendrix in terms of sheer virtuosity on the guitar. Before he achieved fame in his own right he was one of the top session guitarists in Los Angeles in the 60's. Playing on sessions for the Beach Boys, Frank Sinatra and countless others. On record, it's his wonderful voice which is to the fore, but live he always did some amazing work on the guitar too.
Glenn is from Bilistown close to Delite Arkansas, born to a sharecropper, the seventh son of 12 siblings, His father gave him his first guitar at 7 and the rest is history., You need to see and hear Galveston and see one of the best guitarists ever. Glen became a member of the Wrecking Crew and played guitar on hundreds if not thousands of Albums.
Amarillo By Morning is George Stait. Gentle On My Mind, By the Time I Get To Phoenix, Try a Little Tinderness, Country Boy(You've Got Your Feet In L.A.), and The Hand That Rocks the Cradle are all great Glen Campbell songs!
We had a super large tall weeping willow tree in the backyard of the house I grew up in. It was the best tree for kids that like to tree climb. Kids from all over the neighborhood would come over just to climb our tree. It also was great for shade. We had a picnic table underneath it for lunch in the backyard.
Guys the other song you did of him was rhinestone cowboy not Amarillo by morning. That was George Strait. Glen was a bit poppy by most country standards. Brilliant guitar player. Member of the wrecking crew a group of really great studio musicians who played on a lot of peoples albums. He was also a member of the backing band for the beach boys way back when. Oh and Glen was from Arkansas.
"Gentle On My Mind" is one of Glenn's biggest hits.
This song was written by the late great Alan Toussaint, who was from Louisiana. I had the good fortune to see Mr. Toussaint perform it live.
I love Glenn but I understand the meaning more when Alan sings it.
That live performance is amazing! Being from New Orleans, the storytelling was so relatable!
ALAN’s version is from the soul with the story of where he came from. His live performance was my number one show I ever saw just the man the shoes and his piano.
I bought this 45 when it was on the chart. I brought it home and played it. I flipped it over and played the B side. Holy smokes !! The studio version of William Tell Overture ! That man was an amazing guitar player !!
Love Glen Campbell!
You must hear some of his guitar work. He was part of the Wrecking Crew. One of the best studio bands ever.
His guitar play is EPIC. He was a studio musician for many popular bands with credits on other artists records before he was solo and super successful. He live play of the "Lone Ranger Theme" intro is wild fire.
Some said this was his deal at slightly disco. I haven't heard it in years. I remember when "Southern Nights" came out, and liking it...
Fabulous guitarist and vocalist. Galveston and By the Time I Get to Phoenix are musts. Glenn was from Arkansas.
A good ole country boy from Arkansas who very quickly became one of the most sought after studio musicians in LA. Next came the hit records, his own TV variety show and costarring in True Grit with John Wayne!
Glenn Campbell is a legend in his own right. He started out as one of the Wrecking Crew, a group of back up musicans in the LA area that were known for their music abilities. Then he went out on his own and had a hit show in the late 60's and early 70's. Your next song you should react to is By The Time I Get To 6:06 Phoenix.
You missed out that he was a touring member of the Beachboys.
Glen was from Arkansas, one of 12 kids...they didn't have electricity when he was young, and they worked as pickers of fruit and vegetables.
Amber, you like Willow Trees. Here's a song for you -- Chad and Jeremy, "Willow Weep for Me," 1964. Big, big hit written in 1932. C&J were part of the British Invasion.
Jay and Amber have enjoyed Simon & Garfunkel, so I do believe Chad & Jeremy would be a hit with them as well.
I took two years of horticulture and the guy who taught it also owned and operated his own landscaping and garden center for over 40 years. One day a young lady raised her hand in class and described how she always thought weeping willows were so beautiful, wanted one for her own yard and asked the instructor what he thought of them. He replied, "I love them and think they're an incredibly gorgeous tree, as long as they're on someone else's lawn." He laughed and just reminded her that she needed to be prepared to do a lot of raking and picking up after them.
And their roots will go a long way seeking out water so may do damage.
Born in Billstown, Arkansas, Glen Campbell was such an icon, and Southern Nights was his last #1. Next time, please listen to his medley of Don’t Pull Your Love/Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye. Lovely!
PS I vividly remember coming face to face with Mr. Campbell at the Amsterdam airport many moons ago. He looked so cool.
Why did he look cool? Well, because he was. Very much so.
Amber & Jay, on your movie channel you must watch the original True Grit, from 1969. It starred John Wayne AND Glen Campbell, who also sang the opening theme song, True Grit, to the movie.
This was such a great 'feel good' tune to play just sitting out on the front porch. The kind of song that drew the neighbors over just to sit and chat. Kind of like stopping time for just a few minutes where we all just sat and grooved together. Such great memories!!!
Amber, Weeping Willow trees literally weep sticky sap from the branches & leaves. Also, craggy Willow Tree bark is a favorite hiding place for cockroaches. The trees ARE beautiful, you will want a VERY large piece of property to plant them FAR AWAY from the house. 😊
Written by the great Alan Toussaint who also wrote for The Pointer Sisters.
And a whole host of songs and as producer arranger especially in New Orleans. Check out The Band "Rock of Ages" where he did all the horn arrangements with the same charts used on 'The Last Waltz".
This song capped off an awesome 10 year run that Glen had on the Country and Pop charts.
... hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary and Billboard Hot Country Singles charts in 1977.
Fun fact, the drummer on this song is Joe Porcaro who was the father of Jeff, Mike and Steve Porcaro from the band Toto.
Glen made so many great, unforgettable songs that, to me, this one felt kind of like a throwaway song.
This song has so many odd polar-opposite things going on at once, it has the disco groove of that era, yet the horns sound like the 30s, and then there's a lot of banjo, which doesn't normally fit with the aforementioned
Something you need to know Campbell was the most prolific studio guitarist in history one year doing 600 sessions including Strangers In The Night.As a vocalist he started with Turn Around Look At Me in 1961 which later became hits for The Lettermen and The Vogues.He also was in The Champs after they had Tequila.BTW so were Seals and Krofts in the early 60's.
Glen never did Amarillo By Morning, guys.
It was made famous by George Strait years after it was done by Terry Stafford, co-writer of the song.
Weeping willows are my favorite too! We had those growing in Michigan.
This song was written by New Orleans legend Allen Toussaint. You can look on RUclips and find him performing his composition. He also wrote Yes You Can Can that was a big hit for the Pointer Sisters in the early 70s.
My favorite Glen Campbell song! I got to see him perform it live. I love the way he layers in the instruments with each chorus. The song wouldn’t sound the same without the banjo! 🪕
Weeping willows are all over the South….My favorite tree also.
When I was a kid, my stepdad's family and the Campbell family would get together on a Friday night a couple of times each summer and play music late into the night. Sadly, every time Glen was home, I was out of town.
Billstown is only a few miles away.
what a huge hit back in the 70's he had such a great presence, I miss his music
One of the most iconic country songs of the mid-1970’s. I miss those days.
Gentle on my Mind is a beautiful one
His duet with Steve Wariner is good -- "The Hand That Rocks The Cradle."
When Amber said the words "my favorite tree," I knew some of the next words out of her mouth would be weeping willow tree. :)
Love it!!
Hey amber, there is a song Marie Osmond recorded called WEEPING WILLOW.
My 2 favorite GC songs are 'Sunflower' and his duet with Tanya Tucker 'Dream Lover'. Both fun and happy.
My mom was a big fan so i grew up listening to his music as a kid. Great singer and really good guitar player. Played on many records for other artist.
My dad was and we used to listen to him in the car.
If you had put Glen Campbell, George Jones, and Gordon Lightfoot in front of my dad, and told him he could only choose one, his head might have exploded.
It's the middle of June, and the heat on. 🔥🔥🔥 Great Summer Song. I'm so glad, Mr. Campbell has such a great selection. Of hits, RIP! GLEN CAMPBELL 🙏
I was blessed to see him in concert prior to his memory loss when he played with The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra.It was an incredible evening I will always cherish 🎶👍
Check out Glenn Campbell singing a John Hartford song called Gentle on My Mind. It’s a unique song in that there is no Refrain that breaks the song. It’s one of my absolute favorite songs. John Hartford wrote it for his wife, Mary. ❤❤❤
This song always makes me want to put on my cowboy boots and dance 😊 omg Amber I love weeping willow trees too!