Such a beautiful song! I was only 9 when this was released, but I remember hearing it on the radio often. Glen Campbell was such a talented performer and a fantastic singer, he left us some great music!
Listening in the 1960's to WABC at night blasting out the reverb version of this song with all it's 50,000 watts of power to 38 states is just something that may never be heard again! The haunting melodies of this song are just somehow not heard in today's music. Great tune!
Everytime I hear this great classic by Glen Campbell this takes me back to the 60s when my mom would listen to this and all the other great Glen Campbell classics, what a great time growing up in the 60s, she and dad are gone now but I do have the albums and the great memories.
Appreciate your post - yep, no doubt about it - vinyl has got warmth & soul vs sterile CD's and MP3's, which you can't even see! Thanks again for the kind words! Spencer
To the people who think this song is trite simply have no idea about how great lyrics that paint a visual picture set to music become such classic songs. Jimmy Webb wrote this song the same period he wrote MacArthur Park. BOTH songs are about the same girl and the same failed love relationship. Some folks think MacArthur park is about some guy dropping acid and seeing a cake with the icing running down and some other psychedlic interpretation. All of that is just out to lunch. Jimmy would meet this girl everyday in the park (Yes, THAT park: MacArthur Park) and one day she didn't show up because she had left him to go off with Linda Rondstadt's brother. Jimmy went to the park hoping she would show up, but she didn't. It started to rain and these people who were celebrating a birthday ran to get out of the rain left the cake to be ruined in the downpour. Jimmy was heartbroken. He wrote the song and decided to leave CA to go back to his native OK. He tried to call her to tell her goodbye but she didn't pick up the phone. Hence 'By The Time I Get To Phoenix' was written. There is actually a third song in this Trilogy of songs written about the same girl.
Glenn & Jimmy Webb were such a perfect match for each other, Glenn's haunting voice blends in so beautifully with Jimmy's equally haunting melodies and words. And I'm sure Brian Wilson must have influenced him, having been part of the "wrecking crew" that played on the mid-'60's Beach Boys sessions. Brian gave Glenn a song to record called "Guess I'm Dumb" and produced it, definitely worth checking out. But ultimately, Jimmy Webb was where Glen really hit is stride.
According to Billboard Book of Number One Hits by Fred Bronson, entry #461, Glen Campbell is the seventh son of a seventh son from Delight, Arkansas. This was his first top 40 hit, peaked at #26 in December, 1967.
Many times the car radio, and more specifically WABC, was the mobile substitute babysitter to the t.v. in my youth. You had no choice but to listen such a great production as this and not be totally absorbed by it. Great sounds and Happy New Year's to you!
Great song...and great turntable! (I have the same one. Bought it overseas out of the AAFES (Army Air Force Exchange Service) Catalog ~ '77ish. The cue/lift lever doesn't work anymore, but it still plays great!)
Good find! I do have Witchita Lineman, and will add it to my request list. Try A Little Kindness is already posted. I gotta find Gentle on My Mind, but I'm pretty confident I have that too. Thanks for listening!
Capitol 2448 is the last of the swirl label released in early 1969. Artist is Charlie Louvin - called "Heart of Clay" - never charted. I believe that the last major swirl label hit was Glen Campell's "Galveston" - Capitol 2428 released 3/1/1969.
WABCRADIO77 Around the same time, Capitol began issuing singles with smaller labels when they started pressing the "ridges" 45's in late in 1968. I have a copy of "Galveston" with those ridges around the "smaller" swirl label. The last or latest "standard" Capitol swirl label issue I have is the Beatles "Lady Madonna".
Another classic!! BTW, I recently found an original copy of "Gentle On My Mind" in great shape. Do you have that one or "Wichita Lineman"? Love to hear those on your channel. :)
no offense but this really is one of the most over rated and trite songs ever! The weird lyrics make little sense and,in any case, is mostly confused in logic and not very credible. It's so poorly written it's as if the singer is making up the lyrics to a so so or worse music as he goes along just saying whatever comes go mind!
To me, its about finally doing what you feel is the right thing by ending a relationship that isn't working, and feeling genuinely guilty about hurting the other person as a result. This with the hope that she will understand it was for the best in the end. Feelings don't have to make sense, or align with logic in any way, they just exist. If you feel that moving for Los Angeles to Texas to make the breakup tangible is the best way to cope with this situation, you will do it.
Such a beautiful song! I was only 9 when this was released, but I remember hearing it on the radio often. Glen Campbell was such a talented performer and a fantastic singer, he left us some great music!
Listening in the 1960's to WABC at night blasting out the reverb version of this song with all it's 50,000 watts of power to 38 states is just something that may never be heard again!
The haunting melodies of this song are just somehow not heard in today's music.
Great tune!
Simply gorgeous and one of the greatest Country Pop tracks ever written or recorded. RIP Glen Campbell
Everytime I hear this great classic by Glen Campbell this takes me back to the 60s when my mom would listen to this and all the other great Glen Campbell classics, what a great time growing up in the 60s, she and dad are gone now but I do have the albums and the great memories.
Glen needs to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Jeff H He surely will one day.
Just amazing. Favorite song and listening to it on a 45 vinyl can't be beat. What these guys are missing today is a souless mess. Thanks for this .
Appreciate your post - yep, no doubt about it - vinyl has got warmth & soul vs sterile CD's and MP3's, which you can't even see! Thanks again for the kind words! Spencer
I miss those record labels
How Refreshing!! The way it was ment to sound!!
Thanks WABCRADIO for bringing to old 60's to our reminiscences.
To the people who think this song is trite simply have no idea about how great lyrics that paint a visual picture set to music become such classic songs. Jimmy Webb wrote this song the same period he wrote MacArthur Park. BOTH songs are about the same girl and the same failed love relationship. Some folks think MacArthur park is about some guy dropping acid and seeing a cake with the icing running down and some other psychedlic interpretation. All of that is just out to lunch. Jimmy would meet this girl everyday in the park (Yes, THAT park: MacArthur Park) and one day she didn't show up because she had left him to go off with Linda Rondstadt's brother. Jimmy went to the park hoping she would show up, but she didn't. It started to rain and these people who were celebrating a birthday ran to get out of the rain left the cake to be ruined in the downpour. Jimmy was heartbroken. He wrote the song and decided to leave CA to go back to his native OK. He tried to call her to tell her goodbye but she didn't pick up the phone. Hence 'By The Time I Get To Phoenix' was written. There is actually a third song in this Trilogy of songs written about the same girl.
Aki do 🇧🇷 tenho lindas recordações desse clássico...
This seemed to be the one song that I had to play today... RIP and thanks WABCRADIO077 for putting the proper version up there.
The best version of all... no doubt!
(this makes me a little sad... donno why!)
Glenn & Jimmy Webb were such a perfect match for each other, Glenn's haunting voice blends in so beautifully with Jimmy's equally haunting melodies and words. And I'm sure Brian Wilson must have influenced him, having been part of the "wrecking crew" that played on the mid-'60's Beach Boys sessions. Brian gave Glenn a song to record called "Guess I'm Dumb" and produced it, definitely worth checking out. But ultimately, Jimmy Webb was where Glen really hit is stride.
One of Glen's best songs-Thanks for posting.
According to Billboard Book of Number One Hits by Fred Bronson, entry #461, Glen Campbell is the seventh son of a seventh son from Delight, Arkansas. This was his first top 40 hit, peaked at #26 in December, 1967.
Many times the car radio, and more specifically WABC, was the mobile substitute babysitter to the t.v. in my youth. You had no choice but to listen such a great production as this and not be totally absorbed by it. Great sounds and Happy New Year's to you!
Jimmy B Ryan off the wall... Takes me right back to '68.
I'm in love with your turn table.
Great song...and great turntable! (I have the same one. Bought it overseas out of the AAFES (Army Air Force Exchange Service) Catalog ~ '77ish. The cue/lift lever doesn't work anymore, but it still plays great!)
stuff like this is too good!!!
oh wow i should have known you would have it...in a way.
the song is so good that the camera shook!!!
GOOD ONE!!!
this is great!!!
@WABCRADIO77 Thank you, and I appreciate it!! :)
That's great - good for you
MORE Glen Campbell
La música es un bálsamo para el alma.
La música más linda del mundo
Recently, CNN (of all networks!) aired the Glen Campbell concert documentary "I'll Be Me", about his current battle with Alzheimer's.
This version doesn't have as much reverb, is this the original released version?
Good find! I do have Witchita Lineman, and will add it to my request list. Try A Little Kindness is already posted. I gotta find Gentle on My Mind, but I'm pretty confident I have that too. Thanks for listening!
Please add Galveston to the playlist if you haven't done so already.
Lovely
Check out Carole Burnet's version... that damn car won't start!
.♩ ♬ ♭ ♮ ♯...😃😃😃😃😃.....Absolutely magnificent.....😃😃😃😃😃...♯ ♮ ♭ ♬ ♩
What was the last Capitol release to have the famed swirl label? And was it a hit single on the chart?
Capitol 2448 is the last of the swirl label released in early 1969. Artist is Charlie Louvin - called "Heart of Clay" - never charted. I believe that the last major swirl label hit was Glen Campell's "Galveston" - Capitol 2428 released 3/1/1969.
WABCRADIO77 Around the same time, Capitol began issuing singles with smaller labels when they started pressing the "ridges" 45's in late in 1968. I have a copy of "Galveston" with those ridges around the "smaller" swirl label. The last or latest "standard" Capitol swirl label issue I have is the Beatles "Lady Madonna".
Another classic!! BTW, I recently found an original copy of "Gentle On My Mind" in great shape. Do you have that one or "Wichita Lineman"? Love to hear those on your channel. :)
How fast was he driving in order to make it from LA to Oklahoma in one day?
XD
Vanishing point movie
❤😂🏎
One of the Wrecking Crew members
skpb ... wherever ur you'll be in my mind
Awesome song, unfortunately this happens quite often.
Wichita LinemanPLEASE andGuess I'm DumbAND PLEASE It's Only Make Believe
Swirl (:;
no offense but this really is one of the most over rated and trite songs ever! The weird lyrics make little sense and,in any case, is mostly confused in logic and not very credible. It's so poorly written it's as if the singer is making up the lyrics to a so so or worse music as he goes along just saying whatever comes go mind!
To me, its about finally doing what you feel is the right thing by ending a relationship that isn't working, and feeling genuinely guilty about hurting the other person as a result. This with the hope that she will understand it was for the best in the end. Feelings don't have to make sense, or align with logic in any way, they just exist. If you feel that moving for Los Angeles to Texas to make the breakup tangible is the best way to cope with this situation, you will do it.