RIP Glen Campbell
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thecontrolcentre thecontrolcentre https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=76240 - KVRAF
- 37262 posts since 27 Jul, 2005 from Scottish Borders
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- KVRAF
- 5440 posts since 4 Aug, 2006 from Helsinki
An additional comment:
The string arrangement of "Wichita" is really beautiful, the main element of the arr..
Al DeLory wrote an evocative orchestral arrangement in which the strings mimicked the sighing of the telephone wires.
DeLory was originally session musicial and all-around man, played keyboards e.g. in the Pet Sounds, co-worked with the great Jimmy Webb and produced Glen Campbell, died 2012.
The string arrangement of "Wichita" is really beautiful, the main element of the arr..
Al DeLory wrote an evocative orchestral arrangement in which the strings mimicked the sighing of the telephone wires.
DeLory was originally session musicial and all-around man, played keyboards e.g. in the Pet Sounds, co-worked with the great Jimmy Webb and produced Glen Campbell, died 2012.
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- KVRAF
- 11950 posts since 31 Aug, 2013 from Someplace else
I liked some of his 60's hits, but was generally too MOR for me. It wasn't until the internet that I found out he was such a monster guitar player. I remember his TV show, and that he was in the original True Grit. I was saddened to read about the Alzheimers. He seemed like a genuinely decent person. RIP, Glen.
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- KVRian
- 1201 posts since 25 Sep, 2002
RIP Glen, what an awesome guitar man.
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- KVRAF
- 6179 posts since 29 Mar, 2003 from Location: Location
Strikes me as an odd picking style balance between John McLaughlin and Roy Clark.jancivil wrote:
I used to own (and wish I still had) an Ovation 'Balladeer' acoustic guitar. I loved it.
Ovation named their top of the line acoustic 'The Glen Campbell', so they must have had a thing together also as I see Glen played Ovation a lot as in this vid.
Nobody played acoustic Ovation like McLaughlin though.
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- KVRAF
- 6179 posts since 29 Mar, 2003 from Location: Location
Really funny your mentioning that since I also found this aspect of the Campbell productions interesting. I found "Wichita Lineman" and the production of "Everybody's Talkin`"(Harry Nilsson) to have spooky similarities and searched to make this connection, but ended up chalking it up to just that similar 'scoring strings' sound of 1968. Those thick reverberation chambers at Capital and RCA records have a big part in this as well.Harry_HH wrote:An additional comment:
The string arrangement of "Wichita" is really beautiful, the main element of the arr..
Al DeLory wrote an evocative orchestral arrangement in which the strings mimicked the sighing of the telephone wires.
DeLory was originally session musicial and all-around man, played keyboards e.g. in the Pet Sounds, co-worked with the great Jimmy Webb and produced Glen Campbell, died 2012.
Different ppl,different record companies...but the writing and style are noticeably similar. Even the original Fred Neil recording reminds me of later Glen Campbell records. Go figure?
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- KVRian
- 807 posts since 7 Aug, 2015 from H2O
I could barely tell my wife when I first found out...my heart was up in my throat. Part of my childhood. My Mom always said Glen was her boyfriend, lol (no wise cracks, please - she was nowhere near any of his whereabouts in the 60's and 70's). About ten years ago we flew my mother out here to see Glen on tour, and it was like seeing the Beatles, watching him up on stage. Wichita Lineman...there is such a small handful of songs that even compare, one of them being By the Time I Get to Phoenix, of course, written by Webb, as well - and Everybody's Talkin'.