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Post by kcatthedog on Jan 8, 2023 10:13:36 GMT -6
Maybe my fav song: an interesting assessment !
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Post by ragan on Jan 8, 2023 10:36:11 GMT -6
Haven’t watched this video yet but I love this song. I always just kinda drift off when it comes on.
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Post by spindrift on Jan 8, 2023 10:55:11 GMT -6
A longtime favorite of mine since I was a kid. The songwriter, Jimmy Webb, did a piano version of it many years back on his excellent album Ten Easy Pieces. Glen Campbell’s version is also great as we all know.
That fade out section….👌
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Post by drbill on Jan 8, 2023 11:38:13 GMT -6
Great song!!!!!
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Post by kcatthedog on Jan 8, 2023 11:39:12 GMT -6
ragan exactly, is there a more evocative pop/country/rock song? And the string counter melodies: just sublime!
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Post by kcatthedog on Jan 8, 2023 11:50:04 GMT -6
spindrift never heard that before: lovely makes me wonder if Jimmy auditioned the song personally for Glen: what a place in time that would have been.
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Post by spindrift on Jan 8, 2023 13:53:13 GMT -6
spindrift never heard that before: lovely makes me wonder if Jimmy auditioned the song personally for Glen: what a place in time that would have been. Yes…likely! The way Jimmy plays the piano on that tune….it’s so sublime. |
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Post by mike on Jan 8, 2023 14:14:11 GMT -6
Didn't watch the full video, but the phrase greatest country song actually seems smaller than the songs accomplishment to me. A song I don't thing of genre's at all when I hear and if I did would be crossovers at the very least. It's just a truly great song that has so much going for it on many levels above and beneath the surface, Lyrics, arrangement, melody, emotion, counter melody etc etc etc. Genius is right.
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Post by kcatthedog on Jan 8, 2023 15:09:27 GMT -6
^^This^^
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Post by gwlee7 on Jan 8, 2023 17:29:20 GMT -6
As much as I love this, in my opinion, it’s not even Glen Campbell’s greatest song let alone county’s greatest. Two other Jimmy Webb songs Campbell recorded , “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” and “Galveston”, are both stronger to me especially lyrically. But the greatest Glen Campbell song is John Hartford’s “Gentle on My Mind” as far as I am concerned.
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Post by Ward on Jan 10, 2023 10:28:34 GMT -6
My first musical hero. The first song that possessed my soul and left me gobsmacked.
If I could ever write a song that could move someone like this one moved me, or sang it like that, I would feel an immeasureable sense of accomplishment.
Flabbergasting. The Jimmy Webb piano version brings a whole new depth to it.
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Post by ericn on Jan 11, 2023 8:25:28 GMT -6
My first musical hero. The first song that possessed my soul and left me gobsmacked. If I could ever write a song that could move someone like this one moved me, or sang it like that, I would feel an immeasureable sense of accomplishment. Flabbergasting. The Jimmy Webb piano version brings a whole new depth to it. You are once again showing our age my friend! Webb and Campbell, I think for a whole generation of us the first musical hero’s. The exposure of The Glenn Campbell Show didn’t hurt. For me though it was Galveston, who knew I would spend 7 years on that Island? |
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Post by Ward on Jan 11, 2023 10:52:14 GMT -6
My first musical hero. The first song that possessed my soul and left me gobsmacked. If I could ever write a song that could move someone like this one moved me, or sang it like that, I would feel an immeasureable sense of accomplishment. Flabbergasting. The Jimmy Webb piano version brings a whole new depth to it. You are once again showing our age my friend! Webb and Campbell, I think for a whole generation of us the first musical hero’s. The exposure of The Glenn Campbell Show didn’t hurt. For me though it was Galveston, who knew I would spend 7 years on that Island? Ha! And now you're less than 3 hours from Wichita! Glad I didn't like By The Time I Get to Phoenix . . . although my daughter and family are moving there next year, so I guess I will be singing "by the team I get to Phoenix (or Glendale or Scottsdale or Mesa)" soon enough. |
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