Glen is a true icon. Toured with the Beach Boys when Brian Wilson quit playing live. And he was a member of the legendary "wrecking crew". A group of elite studio musicians responsible for much of the music we all now take for granted.
Glen Campbell was part of the Wrecking Crew (a group of session players out of LA that played on many albums and artists songs) and then struck out on his own. He is a fantastic acoustic guitar player. The "lineman" climbed telephone and power poles to repair them. I love how the orchestra mimics the vocals "I can hear through the whine" at 12:00 - so cool.
LINDA RONSTADT IS THE MASTER...I'VE GOT ''GOOSE BUMPS'' ON HER EVERY NOTE.EVERY PERFORMANCE IS VERY EMOTIONAL AND MOVING...SHE'S À WONDERFUL WOMAN WITH ''CURIOSITY'' ABOUT MANY GENRES...THANK YOU,NICK'N LE FOR THIS MARATHON...
Glen Campbell had a string of big pop song hits starting about 1970. For about 10 years before that he was a leading session musician playing guitar for all kinds of big acts.(everyone from Sinatra to the Beach Boys)He was one of the grea guitar players, but he doesn't really show it on is solo songs. He would show off in concert though. There are clips of him on youtube. of him live. There are several of him playing the William Tell Overutre in concert. (He played the William Tell Overture in concert on a 12 string guitar!) It is truly something to see.
Wichita Lineman- Americana at its best. Can't you just see the Great Plains and the electric/phone lines when you close your eyes and listen to this? this song is before my time, but it's for all time.
I was a little kid when this came out...and even at that age, the orchestration and melody moved me. And my gawd, those lyrics..."and I need you more than want you, and I want you for all time..."
The slower middle section of Macarthur Park is usually edited out of the song, but it's the best part. It's heartbreaking. When Sinatra covered it, he did only that section.
Great collection of choices JK, an epic deep dive and great collection. Linda is of course untouchable ❤️❤️❤️❤️Thanks for putting in the Jimmy Webb performance. Glen Campbell is burned into my 8 year old brain from the old am radio days. As others have mentioned he was part of the wrecking crew and was a studio legend. A very clean and precise player. Special thanks for the Richard Harris version of MacArthur park. I listened to that song so many times while I was falling asleep as a kid it really prepared me to appreciate and figure out poetry in lyrics and that ideas don’t need to be literal or understandable to be powerful. Probably helped me appreciate the cryptic lyrics of Steely Dan that came later. Marathon extraordinaire, hopefully won’t get blocked. 👍👍
Great reaction---Glen Campbell is the First autograph I ever got--he was in a restaraunt having breakfast directly across the asile from my family ; San Antonio, Texas- late 60"s Another you would enjoy is "By The Time I Get To Phoenix".
Great reaction. On Wichita Lineman, I love the strings and other parts mimicking the sounds of the analog signals on the phone lines. I also love Glen Campbell’s solo (on Carol Kaye’s bass).
Wonderful marathon, guys- part nostalgic and part new to me. The incomparable Art Garfunkel and his ethereal voice- what's not to love? Always loved "Witchita Lineman", and many other of Campbell's songs. I saw him at a folk festival a few years before he passed and his singing and playing were still great. I was unfamiliar with the Ronstadt song, but really liked it. She can do no wrong in my book! I'd never heard the song that Jimmy sang, but I'm going to show it to my husband, who recently has been exploring his music, and has worked up "Up, Up And Away" on his ukelele! I never cared, as a twelve-year-old, whether I understood the lyrics of "MacArthur Park" or not, I just loved singing along, and dancing around during the fast section! How about that Dumbledore?😀 Anyhoo, thanks JK and Nick! 🎵❤️🎵 Debbie
Great tribute! Jimmy Webb is a superb songwriter, and these are all fantastic tunes with amazing stories to tell. What singer wouldn't want to cover them? Speaking of Jimmy Webb covers, Linda Ronstadt's interpretation of 'Adios' is spellbinding.
Love Jimmy Webb, he has written many superb songs. I was lucky enough to see him live years ago, he was a wonderful performer of his own songs. 'Galveston' sung by Glen Campbell was another brilliant collaboration by them.
A beautiful marathon. Yes to more Glen Campbell (I prefer his earlier folk and pop music to when he went full country); yes to "Up, Up and Away," by The Fifth Dimension. Art Garfunkel did an LP, "Watermark" of mostly Jimmy Webb songs. "The Moon's a Harsh Mistress" is a masterpiece. I may like Josh Groban's version best.
Glen Campbell was an amazing guitar player. He was a studio session player who worked with a lot of popular bands like The Beach Boys for example as a guitar player. Listen to Gentle on my mind for another great Glen Campbell song.
Great selections and glad you took the time to review Jimmy's songs and lyrics and discover his great song writing ability. Age 71 here and indeed this was the music that we all heard in the 60s and 70s. The variety, quantity and quality of this era was amazing which we didn't realize could or would ever end. I guess it’s true that all things must pass to quote George Harrison. MacArthur Park is an epic song and they played it on the radio despite it's length and we were confused as to the meaning.
Glen Campbell was a premier guitar player TH-cam him. He’s the Real deal. Great guitar player and vocalist. Was a big Star. Had his own show in the early 70s. Many hits. Even co-starred in a movie with John Wayne! Jimmy wrote many hits for Glenn (this being one of them). A true musical partnership & friendship Glenn is worth exploring
I L♥️VE your marathons! This one especially because Jimmy Webb’s song writing skills are second to none. Wichita Lineman is a masterpiece, mainly for the line, “And I need you more than want you, and I want you for all time.” Amazing crafting of thought.
I was just explaining Wichita Lineman to my son Evan, about how well written and complex - full of secondary dominants, chords etc... you'd hear in pieces from the likes of Miles - the song was in comparison to much of today's country radio music. Remember Jimmy Webb wrote Galveston also. Glenn's musicians on the song were of course the rest of the Wrecking Crew, Carol Kaye's bass line in the intro is fantastic... but of course it's a Webb written song and like other song writers back then he explored most the melody are in the upper extensions of the chord underneath and resolve not on the roots but the 3rds and 7ths... is far more common in jazz.
Just watched The Wrecking Crew video a few days ago. It is really interesting. I knew some if the story but not all if it. Also watched the story of Muscle Shoals Studio.
Great reaction, Nick! For music aficionados, reacting to Jimmy Webb compositions is a high mark. You should definitely read more about Glen Campbell, and his time as a session guitarist with the Wrecking Crew. He is considered one of the greatest guitarists ever. Another amazing Jimmy Webb song he recorded is "Galveston". Linda Ronsdadt absolutely amazing, and lots of great solo performances by Art Garfunkel! And MacArthur Park was HUGE hit by Richard Harris, who was a fantastic actor!!!
'Wichita Lineman' hit when I was 12-13. Been a fave all this time, just a gorgeous, heart-rending song and a perfect performance by Glenn Campbell. Rest In Peace, Glenn 💔🥹🌈🌉🎸🎵🎤❤️✨️🕊
I'm glad to see so much respect for Glenn Campbell as a guitarist. As others have said, he's one of the greatest guitarist of all time...especially when you realize that he couldn't read music at all!
Glen Campbell was part of The Wrecking Crew, studio musicians who played on many of the pop records of the 60s. He was a guitarist that also played on the Beach Boys touring band as well. He had a high quality solo career. Glen Campbell also had a variety show and participate early and often with Hoyt Axton and other crossover artists of the early 70s.
So glad you enjoyed these Jimmy Webb songs, Nick! This is just a toe into a very deep lake. I left out the 5th Dimension, who were as prominent interpreters as Glen Campbell. Another time perhaps! As for MacArthur Park, that’s perhaps the most divisive song ever written - people either love it or hate it! But how could I leave it out? Besides, it gave us a classic SCTV sketch as well as Weird Al’s “Jurassic Park.” Parody is the finest form of flattery!
Great marathon JK. MacArthur Park was always on the radio when I was a kid and I always listen to it and I got confused as hell until I finally realized that it’s all metaphorical. Helped me stretch my mind as a kid to understand things at a deeper level. Had lotta friends that just turned it off. Thanks for requesting it here. 👍👍
Yeah, would have been nice to get the 5th Dimension in there too - I mentioned "The Girl's Song" and "Orange Air" in my other comment. But I realize you can only choose so many songs. Thanks for this request.
Up up and away by 5th Dimension and Donna Summers version of Macarthur Park is good too. Highwomen by the Highwomen is an interesting Webb cover (from his original Highwaymen also sung by the Highwaymen)
Richard Harris was actually a famous actor who in the 1960s. Jimmy and him struck up a friendship and Richard recorded this album with him McArthur Park was a metaphor for lost love(?) best I can guess Jimmy was the king of metaphors and quirky lyrics A brilliant pianist as well as you heard throughout Sorry, Jimmy fan boy here lol
Jimmy Webb!! Legendary composer I met him once. A very good guy as well. He performs solo concerts. Great stories (wrote for a LOT of artists). Check out a show if he comes close to you
One thing I love about Nicknlex is it allows me to comment on music which I have no opportunity to comment on elsewhere. The "cake in the rain" lyrics always blew my mind. I still find them to be humorous, although I understand what the writer is saying. It's an interesting contrast to the poignancy of: "There will be another song for me For I will sing it There will be another dream for me Someone will bring it I will drink the wine while it is warm And never let you catch me Looking at the sun And after all the loves of my life After all the loves of my life You'll still be the one" I break down sobbing.
Lordy hold on. Gotta get my headphones and hankies for this one... My man Mr. Webb can write a song, and I wish I knew his magic. These are all timeless treasures. Gratitude. Headphones! Where are you? MacArthur Park makes no sense to you because you are WITH your true love. The song makes plenty of sense to those of us who have lost our true love. In fact, when I moved away to get me some book lernin', leaving my dear heart back in Carolina, certain parts of this song would keep me company, playing in my head, helping me to cope with the loss. She was basically Lenny's Suzanne, and she took me down to a place by the river, and fed me oranges, and we shopped at Salvation Army counters. Richard Harris once strolled onto a late show, maybe Letterman, wearing a weird robe thingy, and looking like Merlin or Gandalf. He said it was the very blanket beneath which he and his wife of many decades were first intimate. He may have played one of the wizards. Surely. Tremendous marathon, JK!
Glenn Campbell was part of the Wrecking Crew, the studio musicians who played on hundreds, if not thousands of songs in the 60's. You should check out some of his live guitar playing
Nick, nice set. Thanks J.K. For a study in contrast, try "Down in The Willow Garden" from The same Angel Clare album. Hearing Art's angelic voice singing a murder ballad still blows my mind.. The album is still one of my favorites even after 50 years.
Great Marathon JK! I believe Rick Beato called Wichita Lineman the greatest country song ever recorded. I would have to agree. I loved this song since the first time I heard it (as a kid). And then, I'm sure I couldn't really grasp the full meaning of the song. Ps, If you haven't already seen Nick's reaction to Neal Morse's progish interpretation of Macarthur Park, I think you would at least find it interesting.
Nick you should find some of the videos of Glen Campbell playing guitar on TH-cam. He's one of the great guitarists of his time. He played on many songs of well known bands.
I'm so glad you did this with Jimmy Webb songs. I didn't know if you knew this or not but he studied classical music and was going to write Broadway musicals. He is very talented and is one I think seven or eight Grammys. So glad you discovered him and enjoyed the various artists that brought his music to life that's why there's so many nuances to the music.
I first heard "Macarthur Park" when it came out. I was about 15. The immediate image I got for 'park melting in the dark' and 'sweet green icing flowing down' was of trees as the night is falling, as the green leaves get darker from the top down, so the green appears to be sliding downwards. Fifty-four years later I still get that exact image in my head whenever I hear it. Richard Harris was a major movie star (and notorious roisterer) at the time. He insisted on putting the "s" in Macarthur Park - it flows more easily from the tongue. Also, the "p" in Campbell is silent... cambell.
Wow, great marathon Nick and JK! Art Garfunkel could sing like an angel and Glen Campbell's songs make me feel so nostalgic (usually end up crying😪) Of course Linda's voice is untouchable, so beautiful🦋 Thanks so much Nick (love your comments about Lex, so sweet:)) for reacting to these wonderful tunes and thank you again JK!!
Glen Campbell became an extremely popular country/pop crossover artist in late sixties. Some of his big hit songs besides Wichita Lineman included Galveston, By The Time I Get To Phoenix, Rhinestone Cowboy and more that I can’t remember. I think you guys would love all of those.
Funny to see Richard Harris being remembered for a couple of Harry Potter films at the end of his career. He was legendary, at least in his own lifetime, belonging to a generation of British and Irish actors as notorious for their excessive lifestyles as they were celebrated for their performances. The Wrecking Crew played on MacArthur Park, Hal Blaine is especially great on drums.
Haha! ME??? Yes! FINALLY N&L will hear "Actor" Richard Harris's EPIC track :). I'm transported back as a 5 year old in Bellflower California, just learning about music, and a more innocent time 🥲. N&L will now have to seek out the many awesome movies with Harris 🎥.
@@mvunit3 Yes, you, Silly. Lol. The sweet, 5-year old you. Harris did a great job “acting” like a singer with this one. “And after all the loves of my life …
Jimmy Webb is touring this summer at small venues. He talks about his songs, artists and performs them. I plan on catching his show in Phoenix this summer.
There is a video on TH-cam of Richard Harris performing MacArthur Park with an orchestra. Of course, as great actor he has an enormous stage presence (at the end of his career he played Albus Dumbledore in the first two Harry Potter movies).
Watch Glen's concert with the Sioux City Orchestra. It will blow you away. His guitar work in that concert is stunning. He was one of the finest studio players ever.
Hi Nick, another great marathon. If you ever watched the movie "Watership Down" you probably heard the song "Bright Eyes" which is one of Art's songs. In England it was a massive hit, but I don't think it did so well in American ... hense the movie was a better chance of hearing it. Love Glen Campbell. [ the letter P is silent _ so it's Cam Bell ] My sister had an album of his when I was in my teens. I would play it too, on many an occasion. I played "Wichita Lineman" more than the other songs. I know during the 70's in a music paper, they had a vote for the greatest love song ever written. This song won. Not surprised. Music & lyrics just nailed it. Byee Jim X [ oh & the rest ? ... Knocked it outta MacArthur Park ? ! ]
You should check out Glenn Campbell's guitar playing. I often tell people who want to learn to shred listen to Glenn. The dude's fingers moved like lightning but it's how he follows the changes, the articulation, clarity and cleanness to it which we seldom see out of anyone anymore.
The most famous remake of this song was by Donna Summer, which she turned into a Dance Opus. I loved her version, and it was also about 8 mins. long. As far as the meaning of the song, McArthur Park is a large famous park in Los Angeles. The "Cake" he is singing about is a metaphor for his relationship that is falling apart. "Someone left the cake out in the rain...I don't think that I can take it, ' cause it took so long to bake it, and I'll never have that recipe again." In other words he'll never recapture that relationship again since it has fallen apart.
Richard Harris' version of MacArthur Park is one of my favorite songs of all time. It baffles method me that there are people who genuinely don't like it.Obviously, they don't understand symbolism.
Glenn Campbell was the greatest guitarist of the 20th Century. He started as a sessions artist in the famous "Wrecking Crew" of the 1960s playing leads guitar for the Monkees, Beach Boys, Sunny and Cher and many other famous pop recordings. Campbell was so good that rock legend Eddie Van Halen begged Campbell's close friend Alice Cooper to arrange guitar lessons with Campbell. Jimmy Webb definitely one of the greatest pop composers of all time. He gave Art Garfunkel another beautiful hit "Cryin' in My Sleep".
Glen Campbell was considered one of the finest guitarists of all time, even by his peers! Modern guitarists like Eddie Van Halen wanted lessons from him! He mostly did country-type music but he was very popular and had his own TV show for years. Linda is flawless in one of the most beautiful Webb songs ever!!! Art Garfunkel does have one of the most beautiful male voices ever in music.
Wow! I didn't know that Webb wrote All I Know. What a writer. Richard Harris was essentially an actor who sang ... MacArthur Park... which became a big hit. He recorded an album of Jimmy Webb songs. I've never heard it.
I too love your marathons. If there's something I'm not interested in, I can breeze past them, though it's always interesting to hear your take. Glen Campbell is a treasure, I continue to appreciate. He was a little to country for me to admit to like when I was young :). I learned a few years ago that my now 93 year old mother's favorite popular song was McCarthur Park. I always like it it but thought it a touch over the top plus odd/silly, but of course it is beautiful and symphonic. Maybe she just had/has a bit of a crush on R. Harris?! :-o
Listening to it again, I'm struck by how much it is about unbearable, irredeemable loss, and she had a lot of that in her life--her mother was assassinated when she was 18 while she was on the other side of the world, and her father dies not much later; and she grew up by the ocean swimming miles in the open sea, but then was a mother in the midwest a thousand miles from the sea
Webb gives varied answers to the question of the meaning of "MacArthur Park", mostly because he's bored with the question but of the ones I've heard, I think this is probably the most accurate: Webb dated Linda Ronstandt’s cousin, by marriage, Suzy Horton. He would have lunch with her in MacArthur Park and during one lunch, she broke it off with him (the were off & on for years) and the song is a description of what he was seeing in the park. Sort of like a moving version of Georges Seurat's painting “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jattein” He also wrote “The Worst That Could Happen” when he heard she’d gotten married. “Everything in the song was visible. There's nothing in it that's fabricated. The old men playing checkers by the trees, the cake that was left out in the rain, all of the things that are talked about in the song are things I actually saw. And so it's a kind of musical collage of this whole love affair that kind of went down in MacArthur Park. ... Back then, I was kind of like an emotional machine, like whatever was going on inside me would bubble out of the piano and onto paper.” - Jimmy Webb
Its amazing that the whole version of MacArthur Park was played on top 40 radio back in the day. I saw an interview of Jimmy where he said it was a song about the bride-to-be not showing up at the wedding in the park. But back in the day, that line about leaving the cake in the rain was ridiculed by a lot of people (including my parents!). Thanks for the fun video. Btw, you DON'T want to be in MacArthur Park in the dark (at least the one in L A) these days.
Jimmy Webb, Burt Bacharach, Brian Wilson and Bob Dylan - best American songwriters of the last half of the 1900"s? I think there is a case to be made. Love Jimmy Webb! ( I should have obviously included Lennon/McCartney, Richards/Jagger, Joni and Neil in that list)
MacArthur Park is the ultimate Breakup Song. He actually did see a cake in the rain and the recipe is about the Dynamics between him and Susie that would never work again. They used to meet at MacArthur Park
In Jimmy Webb's memoir (The Cake and the Rain) he wrote about the inspiration for "MacArthur Park". Most of the lyrics were literal, not metaphorical: his girlfriend Suzy Horton (who worked across the street from the park) wearing a yellow dress, the old men playing checkers there, the cake out in the rain, etc. So funny how people overanalyze things. As Freud said "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar"!
Nick, you've been so prolific that I've fallen way behind in listening to your marathons. This one was fabulous! Thank you for listening to Richard Harris' version of MacArthur Park. I liked it as a kid back in '68 and it's only grown on me as the years have passed. Schmaltzy or majestic? I guess that's up to everyone to decide for himself or herself. As always, I love your channel and I appreciate your love of great music.
Don’t forget Jimmy Webb’s masterpiece Up,Up and Away by The 5th Dimension it’s my absolute favorite. Why Yes never did this in the early days is mind boggling. th-cam.com/video/UKkNlwpajNk/w-d-xo.html
The first time we heard MacArthur Park, we said, "What? What was that?" Cake out in the rain? What??? It took a while to get it. We were only teenagers.
Glen Campbell , member of The Wrecking Crew in the early 60's .Played on most of the hits , Beach Boys ,Sonny and Cher etc . Own tv show . Multiple hits ! Always thought he was under rated as a guitarist my self .
Many other Jimmy Webb tunes but this one, Are You Still Within the Sound of My Voice, not as well known, sung by Glen Campbell is heartbreaking and a MUST LISTEN. Linda Ronstadt also did a version of it. NOTE: On All I Know, Garfunkel used the same pianist session man, Larry Knechtel as was on Simon and Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water recorded in 1969. Glen Campbell was a world class guitarist, and his hit vocal songs are very deceptive to that fact. He was a studio musician first...He played the solo in Wichita Lineman on a borrowed bass guitar with treble knob way up. Hardly demonstrates what he could really do.
So, "Wichita Lineman". Linemen, a dying breed, crossed the country setting, resetting, and repairing the telephone and electric lines. These lines often stretched across miles of uninhabited country, and linemen worked in all types of conditions. They climbed high telephone and electric poles and had to work their tools frequently with one hand. They also worked 50 or 51 weeks out of the year. Before cell phones it was necessary to keep the phone lines of America up and running. Because of this they developed powerful wrists, forearms, fingers and thighs. They often went long periods of time not speaking to anyone. Because they often worked in the hot sun the exposed parts of their bodies were frequently sunburned. The Morse Code sound the orchestra imitates invokes the sound linemen hear when they tap into the lines. Some linemen believed that every voice ever said over these lines can still be heard echoing through eternity. Because of the loneliness of the job when they would get together they would frequently talk non stop with each other. This is a beautiful, complex song of love, loneliness, and a near mysticism about a job and a people so many took for granted for so many years.
Twice now you have gotten close to Donna Summer (the queen of disco. Her version of Park is better. The lyrics never get better. They remain campy. He voice is amazing. She also had a hit with On the Radio. One to add to your Radio marathon. Her I Feel Love was so influential.
My father was great friends with her so I’m very familiar with her most famous work from when I was a kid 🤓 Was just telling Alexia today that we need to do some Donna Summer, she’s unfamiliar with her!
Richard Harris (QEPD)en última canción,, fue también actor, y grabó escenas en el film Harry Potter, hizo el papel del mago Albus Dumbledore. Great Reaction was this chapter. Thanks friend. Hugs from Chile. The lasssssttt country in the planet.
If you think this version of Linda singing "Moon" is great, find the live version in which Linda sings and Jimmy plays piano. Her voice is in even _better_ shape and her control astounding. And Webb's playing behind her is haunting. A beautiful moment in music history. Here: th-cam.com/video/3zXUIF5Vmdg/w-d-xo.html
Richard Harris was an actor, probably best known now as Professor Dumbledore in the first couple of Harry Potter films and also the old emperor in Gladiator. Macarthur Park still confuses many as to its meaning
Maybe to younger people but he won the Golden Globe Best Actor award for his role as King Arthur in the musical film “Camelot" in 1967 (also did the same role on Broadway), that made him world famous centuries before Harry Potter films.
MacArthur Park is an epic sound of 1968 and takes those of us from that era through a time machine/dream machine right back to the Summer of 1968. People who try to make logic and over analyze the lyrics are too snarky and idiotic to me, just enjoy the melody and beautiful recording, the lyrics are just poetry [and please, this is NOT a damn disco tune like Donna Summer wanted you to believe]. the lyrics are symbolic can represent a loss of a loved one, not just love lost. there is a lot of musical variety in this recording and good for Webb pissing off the radio stations about the length of the song... 7 minutes, 21 seconds. peaking at number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart on June 22, 1968 even longer than the Beatles' Hey Jude [7 minutes, 11 seconds] later that year. again Larry Knechtel on keyboards.
We're missing all the 5th Dimension recordings of Webb songs, especially the "Magic Garden" album which consisted of 9 Webb songs out of 10 tracks total. I recommend hearing The Girl's Song, and Orange Air: th-cam.com/video/gRgQyZHQGAw/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/POylWJxCWDw/w-d-xo.html
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Glen is a true icon. Toured with the Beach Boys when Brian Wilson quit playing live. And he was a member of the legendary "wrecking crew". A group of elite studio musicians responsible for much of the music we all now take for granted.
Nick & Lexi needs to see that Documentary, that is available here for free.
'And I need you more than want you,and I want you for all time ' One of the greatest lines of all time
Glen Campbell was part of the Wrecking Crew (a group of session players out of LA that played on many albums and artists songs) and then struck out on his own. He is a fantastic acoustic guitar player. The "lineman" climbed telephone and power poles to repair them. I love how the orchestra mimics the vocals "I can hear through the whine" at 12:00 - so cool.
And electric guitar also😊
I'm in my late 60s and remember the Glen Campbell and Richard Harris songs were huge radio hits.
LINDA RONSTADT IS THE MASTER...I'VE GOT ''GOOSE BUMPS'' ON HER EVERY NOTE.EVERY PERFORMANCE IS VERY EMOTIONAL AND MOVING...SHE'S À WONDERFUL WOMAN WITH ''CURIOSITY'' ABOUT MANY GENRES...THANK YOU,NICK'N LE FOR THIS MARATHON...
Linda Ronstadt is gold, and everything she touched turned to gold.
Glen Campbell had a string of big pop song hits starting about 1970. For about 10 years before that he was a leading session musician playing guitar for all kinds of big acts.(everyone from Sinatra to the Beach Boys)He was one of the grea guitar players, but he doesn't really show it on is solo songs. He would show off in concert though. There are clips of him on youtube. of him live. There are several of him playing the William Tell Overutre in concert. (He played the William Tell Overture in concert on a 12 string guitar!) It is truly something to see.
Wichita Lineman- Americana at its best. Can't you just see the Great Plains and the electric/phone lines when you close your eyes and listen to this? this song is before my time, but it's for all time.
I was a little kid when this came out...and even at that age, the orchestration and melody moved me. And my gawd, those lyrics..."and I need you more than want you, and I want you for all time..."
absolutely! it always seemed like such a lonely song....I always felt for the lineman....
The slower middle section of Macarthur Park is usually edited out of the song, but it's the best part. It's heartbreaking. When Sinatra covered it, he did only that section.
Glenn Campbell was also an extremely, and I mean EXTREMELY, talented guitar player as well......there's tons of videos showcasing his musicianship
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Great collection of choices JK, an epic deep dive and great collection. Linda is of course untouchable ❤️❤️❤️❤️Thanks for putting in the Jimmy Webb performance. Glen Campbell is burned into my 8 year old brain from the old am radio days. As others have mentioned he was part of the wrecking crew and was a studio legend. A very clean and precise player. Special thanks for the Richard Harris version of MacArthur park. I listened to that song so many times while I was falling asleep as a kid it really prepared me to appreciate and figure out poetry in lyrics and that ideas don’t need to be literal or understandable to be powerful. Probably helped me appreciate the cryptic lyrics of Steely Dan that came later. Marathon extraordinaire, hopefully won’t get blocked. 👍👍
I hope so too! Thanks!
Linda Ronstadt. Sigh. She never fails to inspire and melt the hardest heart. ✌
Great reaction---Glen Campbell is the First autograph I ever got--he was in a restaraunt having breakfast directly across the asile from my family ; San Antonio, Texas- late 60"s Another you would enjoy is "By The Time I Get To Phoenix".
Great reaction. On Wichita Lineman, I love the strings and other parts mimicking the sounds of the analog signals on the phone lines. I also love Glen Campbell’s solo (on Carol Kaye’s bass).
Wonderful marathon, guys- part nostalgic and part new to me.
The incomparable Art Garfunkel and his ethereal voice- what's not to love?
Always loved "Witchita Lineman", and many other of Campbell's songs. I saw him at a folk festival a few years before he passed and his singing and playing were still great.
I was unfamiliar with the Ronstadt song, but really liked it. She can do no wrong in my book!
I'd never heard the song that Jimmy sang, but I'm going to show it to my husband, who recently has been exploring his music, and has worked up "Up, Up And Away" on his ukelele!
I never cared, as a twelve-year-old, whether I understood the lyrics of "MacArthur Park" or not, I just loved singing along, and dancing around during the fast section! How about that Dumbledore?😀
Anyhoo, thanks JK and Nick!
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You’re welcome, Debra!
Great tribute! Jimmy Webb is a superb songwriter, and these are all fantastic tunes with amazing stories to tell. What singer wouldn't want to cover them? Speaking of Jimmy Webb covers, Linda Ronstadt's interpretation of 'Adios' is spellbinding.
Love Jimmy Webb, he has written many superb songs. I was lucky enough to see him live years ago, he was a wonderful performer of his own songs. 'Galveston' sung by Glen Campbell was another brilliant collaboration by them.
A beautiful marathon. Yes to more Glen Campbell (I prefer his earlier folk and pop music to when he went full country); yes to "Up, Up and Away," by The Fifth Dimension. Art Garfunkel did an LP, "Watermark" of mostly Jimmy Webb songs. "The Moon's a Harsh Mistress" is a masterpiece. I may like Josh Groban's version best.
Glen Campbell was an amazing guitar player. He was a studio session player who worked with a lot of popular bands like The Beach Boys for example as a guitar player. Listen to Gentle on my mind for another great Glen Campbell song.
Great selections and glad you took the time to review Jimmy's songs and lyrics and discover his great song writing ability. Age 71 here and indeed this was the music that we all heard in the 60s and 70s. The variety, quantity and quality of this era was amazing which we didn't realize could or would ever end. I guess it’s true that all things must pass to quote George Harrison. MacArthur Park is an epic song and they played it on the radio despite it's length and we were confused as to the meaning.
"For Emily wherever I may find her" is also another beautiful song sung by Art Garfunkel..
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Glen Campbell was a premier guitar player
TH-cam him. He’s the Real deal. Great guitar player and vocalist. Was a big Star. Had his own show in the early 70s. Many hits. Even co-starred in a movie with John Wayne!
Jimmy wrote many hits for Glenn (this being one of them). A true musical partnership & friendship
Glenn is worth exploring
I L♥️VE your marathons! This one especially because Jimmy Webb’s song writing skills are second to none. Wichita Lineman is a masterpiece, mainly for the line, “And I need you more than want you, and I want you for all time.” Amazing crafting of thought.
I was just explaining Wichita Lineman to my son Evan, about how well written and complex - full of secondary dominants, chords etc... you'd hear in pieces from the likes of Miles - the song was in comparison to much of today's country radio music. Remember Jimmy Webb wrote Galveston also.
Glenn's musicians on the song were of course the rest of the Wrecking Crew, Carol Kaye's bass line in the intro is fantastic... but of course it's a Webb written song and like other song writers back then he explored most the melody are in the upper extensions of the chord underneath and resolve not on the roots but the 3rds and 7ths... is far more common in jazz.
Glen was a member of The Wrecking Crew and played on more than 600 records. Glen was also a member of The Beach Boys and hosted his own TV show
Just watched The Wrecking Crew video a few days ago. It is really interesting. I knew some if the story but not all if it.
Also watched the story of Muscle Shoals Studio.
By The Time I Get to Phoenix has the same feeling.
Great reaction, Nick! For music aficionados, reacting to Jimmy Webb compositions is a high mark. You should definitely read more about Glen Campbell, and his time as a session guitarist with the Wrecking Crew. He is considered one of the greatest guitarists ever. Another amazing Jimmy Webb song he recorded is "Galveston". Linda Ronsdadt absolutely amazing, and lots of great solo performances by Art Garfunkel! And MacArthur Park was HUGE hit by Richard Harris, who was a fantastic actor!!!
'Wichita Lineman' hit when I was 12-13. Been a fave all this time, just a gorgeous, heart-rending song and a perfect performance by Glenn Campbell. Rest In Peace, Glenn 💔🥹🌈🌉🎸🎵🎤❤️✨️🕊
I'm glad to see so much respect for Glenn Campbell as a guitarist. As others have said, he's one of the greatest guitarist of all time...especially when you realize that he couldn't read music at all!
Glen Campbell was part of The Wrecking Crew, studio musicians who played on many of the pop records of the 60s. He was a guitarist that also played on the Beach Boys touring band as well. He had a high quality solo career. Glen Campbell also had a variety show and participate early and often with Hoyt Axton and other crossover artists of the early 70s.
So glad you enjoyed these Jimmy Webb songs, Nick! This is just a toe into a very deep lake. I left out the 5th Dimension, who were as prominent interpreters as Glen Campbell. Another time perhaps! As for MacArthur Park, that’s perhaps the most divisive song ever written - people either love it or hate it! But how could I leave it out? Besides, it gave us a classic SCTV sketch as well as Weird Al’s “Jurassic Park.” Parody is the finest form of flattery!
Great marathon JK. MacArthur Park was always on the radio when I was a kid and I always listen to it and I got confused as hell until I finally realized that it’s all metaphorical. Helped me stretch my mind as a kid to understand things at a deeper level. Had lotta friends that just turned it off. Thanks for requesting it here. 👍👍
The Magic Garden (the whole album) by the Fifth Dimension is a masterpiece.
@@sdstewart1962 Yes, I agree! I love "Paper Cup", "Carpet Man", and "The Girl's Song!"
Yeah, would have been nice to get the 5th Dimension in there too - I mentioned "The Girl's Song" and "Orange Air" in my other comment. But I realize you can only choose so many songs. Thanks for this request.
Up up and away by 5th Dimension and Donna Summers version of Macarthur Park is good too. Highwomen by the Highwomen is an interesting Webb cover (from his original Highwaymen also sung by the Highwaymen)
Richard Harris was actually a famous actor who in the 1960s. Jimmy and him struck up a friendship and Richard recorded this album with him
McArthur Park was a metaphor for lost love(?) best I can guess
Jimmy was the king of metaphors and quirky lyrics
A brilliant pianist as well as you heard throughout
Sorry, Jimmy fan boy here lol
Jimmy Webb!!
Legendary composer
I met him once. A very good guy as well. He performs solo concerts. Great stories (wrote for a LOT of artists). Check out a show if he comes close to you
FYI, I was born in 1948, turned 21 in 69, and survived the 70's, phew...you do the math..❤love your reactions ❤ and more joni Mitchell please 😀
One thing I love about Nicknlex is it allows me to comment on music which I have no opportunity to comment on elsewhere.
The "cake in the rain" lyrics always blew my mind. I still find them to be humorous, although I understand what the writer is saying. It's an interesting contrast to the poignancy of:
"There will be another song for me
For I will sing it
There will be another dream for me
Someone will bring it
I will drink the wine while it is warm
And never let you catch me
Looking at the sun
And after all the loves of my life
After all the loves of my life
You'll still be the one"
I break down sobbing.
Lordy hold on. Gotta get my headphones and hankies for this one...
My man Mr. Webb can write a song, and I wish I knew his magic. These are all timeless treasures. Gratitude.
Headphones! Where are you?
MacArthur Park makes no sense to you because you are WITH your true love. The song makes plenty of sense to those of us who have lost our true love. In fact, when I moved away to get me some book lernin', leaving my dear heart back in Carolina, certain parts of this song would keep me company, playing in my head, helping me to cope with the loss. She was basically Lenny's Suzanne, and she took me down to a place by the river, and fed me oranges, and we shopped at Salvation Army counters.
Richard Harris once strolled onto a late show, maybe Letterman, wearing a weird robe thingy, and looking like Merlin or Gandalf. He said it was the very blanket beneath which he and his wife of many decades were first intimate. He may have played one of the wizards. Surely.
Tremendous marathon, JK!
You’re so welcome, and I love your response!
@@JKonstage Thank you kindly. Now I won't have to request these gems.
Glenn Campbell was part of the Wrecking Crew, the studio musicians who played on hundreds, if not thousands of songs in the 60's. You should check out some of his live guitar playing
Nick, nice set. Thanks J.K. For a study in contrast, try "Down in The Willow Garden" from The same Angel Clare album. Hearing Art's angelic voice singing a murder ballad still blows my mind.. The album is still one of my favorites even after 50 years.
Great Marathon JK! I believe Rick Beato called Wichita Lineman the greatest country song ever recorded. I would have to agree. I loved this song since the first time I heard it (as a kid). And then, I'm sure I couldn't really grasp the full meaning of the song.
Ps, If you haven't already seen Nick's reaction to Neal Morse's progish interpretation of Macarthur Park, I think you would at least find it interesting.
Thank you!
Along with Burt Bacharach truly one of the Greatest songwriters America has ever produced. Thank you for featuring Maestro Jimmy Webb!!!
yes! they're both amazing
Nick you should find some of the videos of Glen Campbell playing guitar on TH-cam. He's one of the great guitarists of his time. He played on many songs of well known bands.
Ill gladly check the out!!!
I'm so glad you did this with Jimmy Webb songs. I didn't know if you knew this or not but he studied classical music and was going to write Broadway musicals. He is very talented and is one I think seven or eight Grammys. So glad you discovered him and enjoyed the various artists that brought his music to life that's why there's so many nuances to the music.
J.K., you are on a roll!
You really need to react to Linda’s “Adios” written by Jimmy Webb whose song you just played. It showcases the purity and beauty of her soprano voice.
I first heard "Macarthur Park" when it came out. I was about 15. The immediate image I got for 'park melting in the dark' and 'sweet green icing flowing down' was of trees as the night is falling, as the green leaves get darker from the top down, so the green appears to be sliding downwards. Fifty-four years later I still get that exact image in my head whenever I hear it. Richard Harris was a major movie star (and notorious roisterer) at the time. He insisted on putting the "s" in Macarthur Park - it flows more easily from the tongue.
Also, the "p" in Campbell is silent... cambell.
And... Richard Harris was Dumbledore in the first two Harry Potter movies.
omg that's insane!!!
Wow, great marathon Nick and JK! Art Garfunkel could sing like an angel and Glen Campbell's songs make me feel so nostalgic (usually end up crying😪) Of course Linda's voice is untouchable, so beautiful🦋 Thanks so much Nick (love your comments about Lex, so sweet:)) for reacting to these wonderful tunes and thank you again JK!!
You’re welcome! So glad these songs affect you too!
Glen Campbell became an extremely popular country/pop crossover artist in late sixties. Some of his big hit songs besides Wichita Lineman included Galveston, By The Time I Get To Phoenix, Rhinestone Cowboy and more that I can’t remember. I think you guys would love all of those.
Ahhh, you forgot his cover of “Classical Gas"
Richard Harris was an over the top Shakespearean and movie actor. He and Peter O'Toole were drinking buddies. Yeah, he sings with extra melodrama.
@@kbrewski1 Especially after a few pints!
Totally AM radio Gold! Songs I heard while eating oatmeal and waiting for the school bus.
Funny to see Richard Harris being remembered for a couple of Harry Potter films at the end of his career. He was legendary, at least in his own lifetime, belonging to a generation of British and Irish actors as notorious for their excessive lifestyles as they were celebrated for their performances. The Wrecking Crew played on MacArthur Park, Hal Blaine is especially great on drums.
True, he gained word fame as Golden Globe Best Actor in Camelot, 1967
Tony!! They’re playing our song! Hehe. Great marathon, JK. Really authentic reaction, our Nick! Thanks. 😽❤️🔥
Thank you!
Haha! ME???
Yes! FINALLY N&L will hear "Actor" Richard Harris's EPIC track :). I'm transported back as a 5 year old in Bellflower California, just learning about music, and a more innocent time 🥲.
N&L will now have to seek out the many awesome movies with Harris 🎥.
And also Glenn Campbell's song - another that takes me back. And I guess Nick reviewed his guitar playing recently too, which I've yet to watch.
@@mvunit3 Yes, you, Silly. Lol. The sweet, 5-year old you. Harris did a great job “acting” like a singer with this one.
“And after all the loves of my life …
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Linda could sing the phone book and I would be transfixed.
Jimmy Webb is the bomb. The absolute bomb. Don't forget "Highway Man" My favorite version is by Ashley Cambell. Glen's daughter.
Jimmy Webb is touring this summer at small venues. He talks about his songs, artists and performs them. I plan on catching his show in Phoenix this summer.
@@kbrewski1 He's 76 (as of July 2023) and here is a video of one of live shows a few months ago. th-cam.com/video/QYufI3fJdE8/w-d-xo.html
There is a video on TH-cam of Richard Harris performing MacArthur Park with an orchestra. Of course, as great actor he has an enormous stage presence (at the end of his career he played Albus Dumbledore in the first two Harry Potter movies).
In terms of McArthurPark, there were a 1972 cover version, very unknown by Scottish ProgRock band "Beggars Opera".
Still within the sound of my voice. Another great Jimmy Webb song sung by Linda.
Watch Glen's concert with the Sioux City Orchestra. It will blow you away. His guitar work in that concert is stunning. He was one of the finest studio players ever.
Hi Nick, another great marathon. If you ever watched the movie "Watership Down" you probably heard the song "Bright Eyes" which is one of Art's songs. In England it was a massive hit, but I don't think it did so well in American ... hense the movie was a better chance of hearing it. Love Glen Campbell. [ the letter P is silent _ so it's Cam Bell ] My sister had an album of his when I was in my teens. I would play it too, on many an occasion. I played "Wichita Lineman" more than the other songs. I know during the 70's in a music paper, they had a vote for the greatest love song ever written. This song won. Not surprised. Music & lyrics just nailed it. Byee Jim X [ oh & the rest ? ... Knocked it outta MacArthur Park ? ! ]
Those first 4 or 5 singles by Glen Campbell (most of them written by Jimmy Webb) are timeless classics.
Nick you sound exactly like Art !You can quit yer day job! Ha,ha,ha ...can't tell you two apart! Ha,ha...Ty brother...great music selections here!
hahahaha a man can dream:)
You should check out Glenn Campbell's guitar playing. I often tell people who want to learn to shred listen to Glenn. The dude's fingers moved like lightning but it's how he follows the changes, the articulation, clarity and cleanness to it which we seldom see out of anyone anymore.
Jimmy Webb is true 'Americana '
The most famous remake of this song was by Donna Summer, which she turned into a Dance Opus. I loved her version, and it was also about 8 mins. long. As far as the meaning of the song, McArthur Park is a large famous park in Los Angeles. The "Cake" he is singing about is a metaphor for his relationship that is falling apart. "Someone left the cake out in the rain...I don't think that I can take it, ' cause it took so long to bake it, and I'll never have that recipe again." In other words he'll never recapture that relationship again since it has fallen apart.
Great line up! Thanks for the reactions!
Richard Harris' version of MacArthur Park is one of my favorite songs of all time. It baffles method me that there are people who genuinely don't like it.Obviously, they don't understand symbolism.
Glenn Campbell was the greatest guitarist of the 20th Century. He started as a sessions artist in the famous "Wrecking Crew" of the 1960s playing leads guitar for the Monkees, Beach Boys, Sunny and Cher and many other famous pop recordings. Campbell was so good that rock legend Eddie Van Halen begged Campbell's close friend Alice Cooper to arrange guitar lessons with Campbell.
Jimmy Webb definitely one of the greatest pop composers of all time. He gave Art Garfunkel another beautiful hit "Cryin' in My Sleep".
Linda Ronstadt's voice is beautiful, But I would love for you to react to the Judy Collins version ( which came first). Hauntingly blissful cover.
Donna Summer cover is great
Glen C - guitarist & singer en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Campbell
Glen Campbell was considered one of the finest guitarists of all time, even by his peers! Modern guitarists like Eddie Van Halen wanted lessons from him! He mostly did country-type music but he was very popular and had his own TV show for years. Linda is flawless in one of the most beautiful Webb songs ever!!! Art Garfunkel does have one of the most beautiful male voices ever in music.
Wow! I didn't know that Webb wrote All I Know.
What a writer.
Richard Harris was essentially an actor who sang ... MacArthur Park... which became a big hit. He recorded an album of Jimmy Webb songs. I've never heard it.
I too love your marathons. If there's something I'm not interested in, I can breeze past them, though it's always interesting to hear your take. Glen Campbell is a treasure, I continue to appreciate. He was a little to country for me to admit to like when I was young :). I learned a few years ago that my now 93 year old mother's favorite popular song was McCarthur Park. I always like it it but thought it a touch over the top plus odd/silly, but of course it is beautiful and symphonic. Maybe she just had/has a bit of a crush on R. Harris?! :-o
Listening to it again, I'm struck by how much it is about unbearable, irredeemable loss, and she had a lot of that in her life--her mother was assassinated when she was 18 while she was on the other side of the world, and her father dies not much later; and she grew up by the ocean swimming miles in the open sea, but then was a mother in the midwest a thousand miles from the sea
Webb gives varied answers to the question of the meaning of "MacArthur Park", mostly because he's bored with the question but of the ones I've heard, I think this is probably the most accurate: Webb dated Linda Ronstandt’s cousin, by marriage, Suzy Horton. He would have lunch with her in MacArthur Park and during one lunch, she broke it off with him (the were off & on for years) and the song is a description of what he was seeing in the park. Sort of like a moving version of Georges Seurat's painting “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jattein” He also wrote “The Worst That Could Happen” when he heard she’d gotten married.
“Everything in the song was visible. There's nothing in it that's fabricated. The old men playing checkers by the trees, the cake that was left out in the rain, all of the things that are talked about in the song are things I actually saw. And so it's a kind of musical collage of this whole love affair that kind of went down in MacArthur Park. ... Back then, I was kind of like an emotional machine, like whatever was going on inside me would bubble out of the piano and onto paper.” - Jimmy Webb
Thank you. I came here to say this.
Such a beautiful song about a line pole electrician! Who would have thought.
Richard Harris sang and/or acted in a variety of films: King Arthur in "Camelot", A Man Called Horse, and 2 Harry Potter films.
Its amazing that the whole version of MacArthur Park was played on top 40 radio back in the day. I saw an interview of Jimmy where he said it was a song about the bride-to-be not showing up at the wedding in the park. But back in the day, that line about leaving the cake in the rain was ridiculed by a lot of people (including my parents!). Thanks for the fun video. Btw, you DON'T want to be in MacArthur Park in the dark (at least the one in L A) these days.
I had never heard about the bride not showing up at her wedding in the park, but it makes a lot of sense! Thank you!
Jimmy Webb, Burt Bacharach, Brian Wilson and Bob Dylan - best American songwriters of the last half of the 1900"s? I think there is a case to be made. Love Jimmy Webb! ( I should have obviously included Lennon/McCartney, Richards/Jagger, Joni and Neil in that list)
Bob Dylan is the best songwriter of the rock era, bar none.
MacArthur Park is the ultimate Breakup Song. He actually did see a cake in the rain and the recipe is about the Dynamics between him and Susie that would never work again. They used to meet at MacArthur Park
In Jimmy Webb's memoir (The Cake and the Rain) he wrote about the inspiration for "MacArthur Park". Most of the lyrics were literal, not metaphorical: his girlfriend Suzy Horton (who worked across the street from the park) wearing a yellow dress, the old men playing checkers there, the cake out in the rain, etc. So funny how people overanalyze things. As Freud said "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar"!
Nick, you've been so prolific that I've fallen way behind in listening to your marathons. This one was fabulous! Thank you for listening to Richard Harris' version of MacArthur Park. I liked it as a kid back in '68 and it's only grown on me as the years have passed. Schmaltzy or majestic? I guess that's up to everyone to decide for himself or herself. As always, I love your channel and I appreciate your love of great music.
Thank you for the support!!
Don’t forget Jimmy Webb’s masterpiece Up,Up and Away by The 5th Dimension it’s my absolute favorite. Why Yes never did this in the early days is mind boggling.
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The first time we heard MacArthur Park, we said, "What? What was that?" Cake out in the rain? What??? It took a while to get it. We were only teenagers.
Love your reaction to the first notes of Londa Ronstadt's track. It's like a voice from the gods.
so true!!
Glen Campbell , member of The Wrecking Crew in the early 60's .Played on most of the hits , Beach Boys ,Sonny and Cher etc . Own tv show . Multiple hits ! Always thought he was under rated as a guitarist my self .
Neil Morse and Co. have done a proper prog version of 'McArthur Park' I think you'd enjoy.
Jimmy and Glen the perfect pairing!
Linda!!!
Many other Jimmy Webb tunes but this one, Are You Still Within the Sound of My Voice, not as well known, sung by Glen Campbell is heartbreaking and a MUST LISTEN. Linda Ronstadt also did a version of it. NOTE: On All I Know, Garfunkel used the same pianist session man, Larry Knechtel as was on Simon and Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water recorded in 1969. Glen Campbell was a world class guitarist, and his hit vocal songs are very deceptive to that fact. He was a studio musician first...He played the solo in Wichita Lineman on a borrowed bass guitar with treble knob way up. Hardly demonstrates what he could really do.
Linda from 16:56
Bet you didn't realize that Dumbledore (Richard Harris) could sing and had a hit song.
(From only the first two Harry Potter movies, sadly. But he was my favorite!)
So, "Wichita Lineman". Linemen, a dying breed, crossed the country setting, resetting, and repairing the telephone and electric lines. These lines often stretched across miles of uninhabited country, and linemen worked in all types of conditions. They climbed high telephone and electric poles and had to work their tools frequently with one hand. They also worked 50 or 51 weeks out of the year. Before cell phones it was necessary to keep the phone lines of America up and running. Because of this they developed powerful wrists, forearms, fingers and thighs. They often went long periods of time not speaking to anyone. Because they often worked in the hot sun the exposed parts of their bodies were frequently sunburned. The Morse Code sound the orchestra imitates invokes the sound linemen hear when they tap into the lines. Some linemen believed that every voice ever said over these lines can still be heard echoing through eternity. Because of the loneliness of the job when they would get together they would frequently talk non stop with each other. This is a beautiful, complex song of love, loneliness, and a near mysticism about a job and a people so many took for granted for so many years.
Lovely comment!🙂🎵🙂
Glen Campbell was a ULTRA MASTER guitar player you should look him up
Twice now you have gotten close to Donna Summer (the queen of disco. Her version of Park is better. The lyrics never get better. They remain campy. He voice is amazing. She also had a hit with On the Radio. One to add to your Radio marathon. Her I Feel Love was so influential.
My father was great friends with her so I’m very familiar with her most famous work from when I was a kid 🤓 Was just telling Alexia today that we need to do some Donna Summer, she’s unfamiliar with her!
Witchita Lineman - pure romantic longing set to music
Richard Harris (QEPD)en última canción,, fue también actor, y grabó escenas en el film Harry Potter, hizo el papel del mago Albus Dumbledore.
Great Reaction was this chapter. Thanks friend. Hugs from Chile. The lasssssttt country in the planet.
If you think this version of Linda singing "Moon" is great, find the live version in which Linda sings and Jimmy plays piano. Her voice is in even _better_ shape and her control astounding. And Webb's playing behind her is haunting. A beautiful moment in music history. Here: th-cam.com/video/3zXUIF5Vmdg/w-d-xo.html
MacArthur Park is where two lovers used to meet, and, sadly, where they broke off their affair.
Richard Harris was an actor, probably best known now as Professor Dumbledore in the first couple of Harry Potter films and also the old emperor in Gladiator. Macarthur Park still confuses many as to its meaning
Maybe to younger people but he won the Golden Globe Best Actor award for his role as King Arthur in the musical film “Camelot" in 1967 (also did the same role on Broadway), that made him world famous centuries before Harry Potter films.
F1rst!!!🎉🎉🎉
I’m ready for the open marathon!!!
MacArthur Park is an epic sound of 1968 and takes those of us from that era through a time machine/dream machine right back to the Summer of 1968. People who try to make logic and over analyze the lyrics are too snarky and idiotic to me, just enjoy the melody and beautiful recording, the lyrics are just poetry [and please, this is NOT a damn disco tune like Donna Summer wanted you to believe]. the lyrics are symbolic can represent a loss of a loved one, not just love lost. there is a lot of musical variety in this recording and good for Webb pissing off the radio stations about the length of the song... 7 minutes, 21 seconds. peaking at number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart on June 22, 1968 even longer than the Beatles' Hey Jude [7 minutes, 11 seconds] later that year. again Larry Knechtel on keyboards.
We're missing all the 5th Dimension recordings of Webb songs, especially the "Magic Garden" album which consisted of 9 Webb songs out of 10 tracks total. I recommend hearing The Girl's Song, and Orange Air: th-cam.com/video/gRgQyZHQGAw/w-d-xo.html
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