This is very special to me. Many many years ago, when the Aeroplane album came out, I was waiting outside the gym at a local college where a concert was to take place. A beat up car showed up. The performers got out & I helped them carry in their instruments. One of them asked if there was somewhere to eat. I told them of a pizza & sub shop a few minutes away. That's how I got to have dinner with the late great John Hartford, Norman Blake, Tut Taylor & Vassar Clements. Later on, while John Hartford was using the facilities, I held his fiddle for him. One of the greatest memories of my Life.
You made my day with that memory. Beats the hell out of the time I was peeing next to Poco's Rusty Young, just before he took to the stage at Portland's Euphoria Tavern in April 1983.
Alas, poor John, and Glen, too, have joined that great Hobo caravan in the sky. I hope even now they're sharing coffee from that gurgling tin can in that train yard. Yes, a GREAT song.
Nice job! While Glen Campbell is best known for doing this, John Hartford wrote it. I had the pleasure of playing a gig with him back in the seventies. He was a gentle giant. We were a rock band and were on a program of 4 acts of which he was the headliner. We did our best loud show (lol) and he came on right after us in his solo, genteel way and just proceeded to slay the crowd. He was so good. We were humbled that day. I never forgot it. It's not how loud and energetic you are, it's how you relate to the crowd. He had them in the palm of his hand so to speak from the first note. Standing ovation when he finished. He was special.
I WAS IN THE 7 TH GRADE ( 1967 ) WHEN THIS SONG FIRST PLAYED ON THE RADIO . I HAVE LOVED MR. HARTFORD'S SONG SINCE . YOU GIRLS NAILED IT!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU NOW HAVE A NEW FAN FOR LIFE KEEP PLAYIN'
This song would often be playin on the 8-track in my Dad's old red truck when I was a kid. Yesterday would have been his 88th birthday. Thank you for doing what you do. And please come back to BC. ❤❤
I had the pleasure to meet John and hung out for a short while in the back room before a show at Michigan State around 1978. He played banjo, the autoharp, and tapped his shoes on a board with a acoustic pickup. He sang "I'll Fly Away" on the autoharp. I remember it like it was yesterday...
A special thanks for this one. "Gentle on My Mind" is a nearly forgotten classic from my youth.. at a time in life when I was too new to appreciate it's perfection. Bless you and bless the late, great John Hartford.
John Hartford is/was one of the unsung greats of American music. Discovering him was one of the greatest gifts of my entire life. Beautiful performance, thank you.
Wholeheartedly agree! Aeroplane, Morning Bugle and Mark Twang are my favourites, but I love all his stuff. Got to see him perform solo at York U. in Toronto in 1975.
I've read somewhere and seen at least a couple of youtube videos that mentioned that Glen Campbell never learned to read music, that all of renditions were learned by ear. What a great ear he had!!!!
This is one of my favorite bluegrass songs. John Hartford came to my hometown (Kyoto, Japan) in 1979, when I was a university student. John held a concert at a small live house. I love his low-tuned banjo playing. Thank you for taking me to my young days.
As a kid I used to play this song along with Glen Campbell as I was learning guitar. Yes, I'm that old and proud of it. But not as proud as you two should be with your beautiful playing and singing!
I'm right there with ya. When I was eleven my folks bought me my first guitar for Christmas and a Glen Campbell guitar book came with it. I learned all the songs and still love them all these years down the road.
I can feel my hat shielding the Sun, and the sound of the bugs whizzing around while listening to this. The tune and words wonderfully capture the mood.
Sunday evening here in the UK, and this is just the job for gentling my mind before heading to bed. Absolutely beautiful as always, and what a great song to cover. Gorgeous harmonies, beautiful guitar playing and brilliant banjo picking. Thank you! Love these Sunday morning (evening) videos.
There are 2 amazing things about how John Hartford wrote this song. 1. He wrote it beginning to end in about 12 minutes! 2. He wrote this "country" song based on the movie "Dr. Zhivago" where Zhivago loses Lara and is walking down the railroad tracks.
Glen used to open the Goodtime Hour with this song and with the help of John Hartford. They appeared together many times on the show, pickin and singing some great tunes.
Hearing you sing this brings back a memory of riding in the car with my mom when I was nine or ten, and hearing this song on the radio. That was beautiful, thanks!
"Gentle on My Mind" was one of those comfortable songs that's been around and familiar since the 60s. I think that today, listening to you two, I really heard the lyrics for the first time and found myself musing fondly about a few wonderful people who somehow vanished from my life decades ago. {Sniff} Thanks.
I love this song ladies.........SO GLAD YOU GRACED US WITH IT!!!!!! Toni you scare me.......WOW(banjo playing without thinking)!!!!!!! Elle so good.....Such Justice to the song!!!!!! You two together........GOLD!!!!!
Simply amazing how you both seem to be able to do these songs so seamlessly and so smooth..like listening to silk , if silk could sing ..the playing and vocals are so well done 👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️
I was in middle school when this charted. I was a little rocker and my parents were Symphony subscribers and jazz fans so nobody in our house was watching The Glenn Campbell Show but I loved this song. Years later I saw John Hartford at Ebbitts Field in Denver. Thank's Toni and Elle (still want to type Reina but ...) for so many Sunday Mornings.
Beautiful. I never tire of the imagery of this song. Especially growing up near a train yard and there would be 'hobos' sitting by that caldron over the fire in the cold evenings. I would imagine they probably had someone gentle on their minds as well. Well done ladies.
I didn’t find out about Glens true talents until a few years before he passed. He was a gifted guitar player, the guy could play with the best of them. You two did right by singing his song. Thanks ladies 😊
Glen was very humble about his approach to this song. He said he didn't change a thing about it that John Hartford hadn't put in, except to raise the tempo a bit. They became good friends and would appear together in concert and on TV. John on his banjo and Glen pickin his guitar.
This song, is special to me. Tears of joy fill my face, and I am back to college in 1967, driving my 1963 Chevy II listening to Glen as the Chester County scenery is floating by. Toni and Elle, you all are perfect! Looking forward to many more musical interludes! Many thanks!!!
❤ didnt recognize the title but immediately recognised as you started singing. Took me back to my childhood when (this and many similar songs) were the soundtrack to my early years 🥰
Just been having an Elle and Toni listening session, after discovering Elle through her poetry shorts. Just wow. Your music together is so beautiful. Elle your poetry and comedy is so clever and captivating. Well done. Good Show!!
Well, all I can say, is, once again, you two supremely, talented ladies never cease to amaze me with your musicality and your beautiful harmonies….I am 62 years old, and grew up as a Glen Campbell fan, watching any at all shows and specials of his own, and other stars and performers with my mother, who was also a huge fan of his, and I was blown away by his singing and his guitar playing from the beginning… I don’t know if you ladies ever saw the documentary on him some years ago, but even towards the end, before his mental faculties completely left him, when he performed one of his last shows, the dexterity with which he could still pick and play guitar was nothing short of a miracle… Thank you so much for this, because while I am not as familiar with John Hartford, this song has been a favorite of mine since I first heard Campbell do it probably a good 55 years ago 🧑🏻👩🏼🎼🎤🎤🎸🎸❤️❤️❤️❤️
Great to see you back ladies. Great performance as usual. Always loved this song. Dean Martin also did a great version. What always amazed me though was the amount of verses and very complicated lyrics and words. Never knew how artists could memorise the words and do it live on stage. Were you both cheating a bit and have the words running up an audio que. wouldn’t minded if you did. If not, very well done. Whatever, great singing and playing. 🙋♂️🇬🇧👏👏👏
I listened to this song when it came out, and I imagine I've heard it 100 times. It's one of my all-time favorites, and you two performed it admirably. Thank you.
I've loved this song since I first heard Glen Campbell and John Hartford play it on TV. One of the songs that made me take up the banjo. And remarkably, Toni and I use the same chords (I start on the high strings, but starting this morning, I'm switching to the low strings. Many thanks from an old banjo picker!
This is very special to me. Many many years ago, when the Aeroplane album came out, I was waiting outside the gym at a local college where a concert was to take place. A beat up car showed up. The performers got out & I helped them carry in their instruments. One of them asked if there was somewhere to eat. I told them of a pizza & sub shop a few minutes away. That's how I got to have dinner with the late great John Hartford, Norman Blake, Tut Taylor & Vassar Clements. Later on, while John Hartford was using the facilities, I held his fiddle for him. One of the greatest memories of my Life.
Great story. I discovered John when he did the "Down from the Mountain" concert/film. I've been hooked ever since.
Son! That is epic!
What a fine memory. ✌️
You made my day with that memory. Beats the hell out of the time I was peeing next to Poco's Rusty Young, just before he took to the stage at Portland's Euphoria Tavern in April 1983.
I hope you tap danced with it!
Every musical instrument that Toni plays, she plays exceptionally well.
Reina's voice is gentle on my mind.
Deeply pleasing to see young people keeping this exceptionally well penned classic alive. Well done friends. Bravo.
Pure Americana so well done. Thank you both.
Elle and Toni two of my favourite musicians and singers! Absolutely love this 💕💕💕
Thank you for keeping real music alive. 🔥👏🏼
It's like lighting a brightly burning candle to remember the beloved old songs, songwriters and singers
thanks so much!
If I was John Hartford, I would be wonderfully delighted to find this cover by Elle and Toni on Sunday 💚💚💚💚💚
Alas, poor John, and Glen, too, have joined that great Hobo caravan in the sky. I hope even now they're sharing coffee from that gurgling tin can in that train yard. Yes, a GREAT song.
He died 23 years ago so he never heard it.
Glen Campbell is smiling down on you both from heaven. That was just beautiful! ❤️❤️❤️
Long ago and far awAy memories, thank you
Nice job! While Glen Campbell is best known for doing this, John Hartford wrote it. I had the pleasure of playing a gig with him back in the seventies. He was a gentle giant. We were a rock band and were on a program of 4 acts of which he was the headliner. We did our best loud show (lol) and he came on right after us in his solo, genteel way and just proceeded to slay the crowd. He was so good. We were humbled that day. I never forgot it. It's not how loud and energetic you are, it's how you relate to the crowd. He had them in the palm of his hand so to speak from the first note. Standing ovation when he finished. He was special.
I WAS IN THE 7 TH GRADE ( 1967 ) WHEN THIS SONG FIRST PLAYED ON THE RADIO . I HAVE LOVED MR. HARTFORD'S SONG SINCE . YOU GIRLS NAILED IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YOU NOW HAVE A NEW FAN FOR LIFE KEEP PLAYIN'
I just want to cry, you’re both so beautiful and amazing. All I had to do was think of Glen and could not hold back my tears. You done him proud.
Love this John Hartford classic.
This song would often be playin on the 8-track in my Dad's old red truck when I was a kid. Yesterday would have been his 88th birthday. Thank you for doing what you do. And please come back to BC. ❤❤
Thanks for this song. I've always loved Gentle on my mind. It was a sad day when he died. Thank s to
I had the pleasure to meet John and hung out for a short while in the back room before a show at Michigan State around 1978. He played banjo, the autoharp, and tapped his shoes on a board with a acoustic pickup. He sang "I'll Fly Away" on the autoharp. I remember it like it was yesterday...
Lucky you!
Lindgren & Cordova are a modern day Simon and Garfunkel!! Thank you for the incredible music. 🎸
Pleased to introduce myself
I'm Bobby Dylan. (The young Bobby Dylan).
Nice. I’d do it faster. It’s the niftiest walk down song.
Heavenly performance: no glitz, no fancy anything... just pure talent coming through!❤
love y'all from 60 miles southwest of new orleans, bayou country.
A special thanks for this one. "Gentle on My Mind" is a nearly forgotten classic from my youth.. at a time in life when I was too new to appreciate it's perfection. Bless you and bless the late, great John Hartford.
Amen
Too true. It was the same for me. Little did I know then that great songs like this don't just come around that often.
John Hartford is/was one of the unsung greats of American music. Discovering him was one of the greatest gifts of my entire life. Beautiful performance, thank you.
Wholeheartedly agree! Aeroplane, Morning Bugle and Mark Twang are my favourites, but I love all his stuff. Got to see him perform solo at York U. in Toronto in 1975.
You made my Sunday so happy.
Reina is one of my favorite country music singer.
Beautiful, takes me back to my youth
Sublime. Long ago memories of my Mum and Dad listening to Glen Campbell albums. Thankyou.
Thank you for taking me back to a good place some Fifty odd years ago. It is good and sweet!
Your beautiful smiles make listening to this even more enjoyable! ❤😊😊
I've read somewhere and seen at least a couple of youtube videos that mentioned that Glen Campbell never learned to read music, that all of renditions were learned by ear. What a great ear he had!!!!
This is one of my favorite bluegrass songs. John Hartford came to my hometown (Kyoto, Japan) in 1979, when I was a university student. John held a concert at a small live house. I love his low-tuned banjo playing. Thank you for taking me to my young days.
素敵な思い出ですね
Thank you it’s very nice see and hear your Sunday Morning Songs, you are both beautiful and so Talented.
Oh, so ,so very good; takes this old guy for a ride back in time! Thanks Elle and Tony!
Just when you think this can't get any better, those harmonies at 2:03 come along and take your breath away.
Lovely, just plain lovely. Thank you for sharing your talents and loveliness.
Beautiful. Brought back childhood memories.
I can picture John Hartford dancing a rythm wearing his black derby hat. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Skipping in de Mississippi dew
I'm just sitting here enjoying the heck out of this song as I have with many of your songs. All of the sudden, WAM! Look at those blue eyes! Shazam!
Big John Hartford fan here. Thanks!
As a kid I used to play this song along with Glen Campbell as I was learning guitar. Yes, I'm that old and proud of it. But not as proud as you two should be with your beautiful playing and singing!
I'm right there with ya.
When I was eleven my folks bought me my first guitar for Christmas and a Glen Campbell guitar book came with it.
I learned all the songs and still love them all these years down the road.
Glen Campbell was such s powerful inspiration for young guitar players.
THAT CHRISTMAS FEELING is still my favorite Christmas album.
Great performance. I never noticed how beautifully blue Toni's eyes are!
This tune takes me back ❤ thank you for sharing.
Love you Elle & Toni ~❤~
Fantastic, ladies! I'm watching this on Sunday evening before bed, and what a treat to end the day with. Bravo!
Mmm, love some John Hartford. You guys do him proud.
🇨🇦 I have always loved his tune .Thanks 👍👍👍
Took me back in time nice to see you both playin the old songs...❤
I just love you two, thank you so much for sharing your fabulous talent! God bless you two….can’t wait for the next one!
I can feel my hat shielding the Sun, and the sound of the bugs whizzing around while listening to this. The tune and words wonderfully capture the mood.
Sunday evening here in the UK, and this is just the job for gentling my mind before heading to bed. Absolutely beautiful as always, and what a great song to cover. Gorgeous harmonies, beautiful guitar playing and brilliant banjo picking. Thank you! Love these Sunday morning (evening) videos.
There are 2 amazing things about how John Hartford wrote this song.
1. He wrote it beginning to end in about 12 minutes!
2. He wrote this "country" song based on the movie "Dr. Zhivago" where Zhivago loses Lara and is walking down the railroad tracks.
Ty i learned something here❤
I actually remember a snippet of an Ed Sheeran interview where he said that the groundwork for any good song is made in under half an hour.
This beautiful song suites your voices, your harmonies and the instruments. Beautiful song from beautiful musicians. Many thanks Elle and Toni
The best thing about the Glen Campbell Good Time Hour was the musicians it introduced me to including the riverboat captain John Hartford.
Glen used to open the Goodtime Hour with this song and with the help of John Hartford. They appeared together many times on the show, pickin and singing some great tunes.
Hearing you sing this brings back a memory of riding in the car with my mom when I was nine or ten, and hearing this song on the radio. That was beautiful, thanks!
"Gentle on My Mind" was one of those comfortable songs that's been around and familiar since the 60s. I think that today, listening to you two, I really heard the lyrics for the first time and found myself musing fondly about a few wonderful people who somehow vanished from my life decades ago. {Sniff} Thanks.
True musicianship with a load of butterflies.
I love this song ladies.........SO GLAD YOU GRACED US WITH IT!!!!!! Toni you scare me.......WOW(banjo playing without thinking)!!!!!!!
Elle so good.....Such Justice to the song!!!!!! You two together........GOLD!!!!!
It is always a pleasure to hear your voices. Thank you.
Home recovering from a serious injury u 2 have brought some joy in my life Love u 2 so much THANK YOU 😊
Simply amazing how you both seem to be able to do these songs so seamlessly and so smooth..like listening to silk , if silk could sing ..the playing and vocals are so well done 👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️
Toni is such a super talent. I'd love to see her in a real deal bluegrass band.
I was in middle school when this charted. I was a little rocker and my parents were Symphony subscribers and jazz fans so nobody in our house was watching The Glenn Campbell Show but I loved this song. Years later I saw John Hartford at Ebbitts Field in Denver. Thank's Toni and Elle (still want to type Reina but ...) for so many Sunday Mornings.
I'm a HUGE John Hartford fan! This is so wonderful. Beautiful signing and banjo.
Great song! I grew up listening to Glen Campbell🪕🎸 John Hartford is good too! Lovely job ladies🎤💜😻
Beautiful. I never tire of the imagery of this song. Especially growing up near a train yard and there would be 'hobos' sitting by that caldron over the fire in the cold evenings. I would imagine they probably had someone gentle on their minds as well. Well done ladies.
I didn’t find out about Glens true talents until a few years before he passed. He was a gifted guitar player, the guy could play with the best of them. You two did right by singing his song. Thanks ladies 😊
Glen was very humble about his approach to this song. He said he didn't change a thing about it that John Hartford hadn't put in, except to raise the tempo a bit. They became good friends and would appear together in concert and on TV. John on his banjo and Glen pickin his guitar.
Same here .. glen was amazing!!!
Wow, haven't heard that since I was a kid, thanks for the flashback.
This song, is special to me. Tears of joy fill my face, and I am back to college in 1967, driving my 1963 Chevy II listening to Glen as the Chester County scenery is floating by. Toni and Elle, you all are perfect! Looking forward to many more musical interludes! Many thanks!!!
Beautiful ... Joyful ... Spiritual
I’ve loved glen campbells songs for decades
This is one of my favorites
Thank you both so much!💕
Awesome, beautiful song!!!!
❤ didnt recognize the title but immediately recognised as you started singing. Took me back to my childhood when (this and many similar songs) were the soundtrack to my early years 🥰
Just been having an Elle and Toni listening session, after discovering Elle through her poetry shorts. Just wow. Your music together is so beautiful. Elle your poetry and comedy is so clever and captivating. Well done. Good Show!!
Thank you for John Hartford
Kissees from France
I'll never get tired of hearing ya'll sing fantastic job good song
Your voices are as gentle and comforting as the song.
As ALWAYS, FANTASTIC!!!!! Such talent!!!!! Thanks for sharing your talents!!!!
I listened to this yesterday during my walk. Very entertaining
Sweet. Beautiful. Smooth. Gentle. Many thanks.
A unique song, with its subtle undertow of lyrics creating a complex emotional life and individual personality in just a few brushstrokes.
Undertow! You got that right.
Glen was a superstar, wrecking crew beachboy solo❤ Toni your eyes look super blue in your video thanks ladies.
Well, all I can say, is, once again, you two supremely, talented ladies never cease to amaze me with your musicality and your beautiful harmonies….I am 62 years old, and grew up as a Glen Campbell fan, watching any at all shows and specials of his own, and other stars and performers with my mother, who was also a huge fan of his, and I was blown away by his singing and his guitar playing from the beginning… I don’t know if you ladies ever saw the documentary on him some years ago, but even towards the end, before his mental faculties completely left him, when he performed one of his last shows, the dexterity with which he could still pick and play guitar was nothing short of a miracle… Thank you so much for this, because while I am not as familiar with John Hartford, this song has been a favorite of mine since I first heard Campbell do it probably a good 55 years ago 🧑🏻👩🏼🎼🎤🎤🎸🎸❤️❤️❤️❤️
So beautiful! So much talent.
Great to see you back ladies. Great performance as usual. Always loved this song. Dean Martin also did a great version. What always amazed me though was the amount of verses and very complicated lyrics and words. Never knew how artists could memorise the words and do it live on stage. Were you both cheating a bit and have the words running up an audio que. wouldn’t minded if you did. If not, very well done. Whatever, great singing and playing. 🙋♂️🇬🇧👏👏👏
You two wonderful people just move me .....i love your songs on Sunday, such a delight.....many thanks.
Glen is up there smiling down at you both.
I know i'm the lucky winner again,
i love your art in the dead of the night..
thank you both of you.
I listened to this song when it came out, and I imagine I've heard it 100 times. It's one of my all-time favorites, and you two performed it admirably. Thank you.
I want a time machine to go back to when life was simpler with these tunes.
I've loved this song since I first heard Glen Campbell and John Hartford play it on TV. One of the songs that made me take up the banjo. And remarkably, Toni and I use the same chords (I start on the high strings, but starting this morning, I'm switching to the low strings.
Many thanks from an old banjo picker!
l love songs that tell a story, and the best stories are the ones I don't quite understand... love what you did with this...
What à beautiful voice, good musicians, you,both girls,have a great feeling.
Such amazing talents; alone AND together 😊
I love it when you guys smile at each other.
I report everyone pretending to be the band. So don't bother.
Great cover of this song, I love it more every time I listen to it.
To do justice to such a historic song is challenging but you both took it to another level, well done and keep up the great tunes !😊
Hi no problem hope all is good!
I love the respect with which you approach everything you play together.
One of my all time favorite country songs. Well done ladies, well done
Great job on one of the best songs ever written. You are both master musicians, and this song is lyrical master piece. A great combination!
That's as perfect as a cover could be. I was enchanted.
The versatility of Toni. Inspiring for sure.
Your harmonizing has gotten so darned good! I hope you two continue to make great music together for many years to come! Thank you!
Beautiful rendition! As always 🥰❤❤❤