As a producer, director, and performer with a full time career in music I believe this this to be one of the greatest written songs I've heard, written by the brilliant writings of Jimmy Webb. Glen Campbell's tremendous performance above and this highly talented back up band, make this a historical pop classic.
So many people do no appreciate what a great written song this is. They have no idea what the song is about because they don't search their hearts deep enough to find out. What a beautifully written song.
Comparing the greatest, most passionate love affair one could only dream of is compared to a scrumptious creation of a cake with green icing! Only Jimmy Webb! 😂
After he puts down his guitar, he jumps around like a little kid - pure joy! It's a very rare musician that gives you such a good feeling ... his fabulous guitar playing notwithstanding.
Yes! The pure joy of performing that wonderfully written and arranged song is on Glen's face and in his jumping around. He just LOVES the song - almost as much as I enjoy listening to it and to him playing guitar on it!
WOW! WOW! WOW! How am I going go to sleep now? WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NO ONE comes near Glen Campbell. Not in his singing. Certainly not in his guitar playing. He is my favorite artist of ALLLLLLLLLL Time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! God Bless Glen Campbell. WOW!~!!!!
No, Campbell was a shredder on the guitar, a little enough is all you want to hear. But as a vocalist for Everyman could bring this epic pop dung to the understanding of us all. It’s all here in this performance. Decide for yourself.
Glenn was a studio muscian on more than 300 songs. That how great a guitarist this guy is. One of the greatest musicains of my time thats for sure. Just a giant of a talent.
Indeed. $400 an hour as a member of the Wrecking Crew. People swear he was the best. It was an incomparable age though. So so many great guitar players, great musicians, and schools that taught music.
@@47rintin1 Before spending time subbing for the naughty Smothers Brothers, Glenn made a name for himself as a virtuoso guitar player. Members of the wrecking crew would listen to a song once and then could play it better than the players in the group. That's how they made their money. Think of Frank Zappa and the Mothers during the sixties as a similar group of proficient musicians. The Wrecking Crew were the original group of specialists.
Wow! On a couple different levels I think this may be the best MacArthur Park ever recorded/performed. And I am a horn 🎺 guy who loves Maynard & his Version. But Glen Campbell with the vocals AND the kick ass guitar solo takes the cake, (no pun intended).
Only a performer like Glen Campbell can get a guitar solo into a song that literally doesn't require a guitar. Sad that I wasted most of my years in bands playing rock, and top 40. I should have spent more time listening to greats like GC, Roy Clark, Jim Stafford and Jerry Reed. I now spend hours in retirement listening to these iconic greats. RIP Glen.
If your interested, you should look into his session work when he was younger. He played with everyone from the beach boys to Elvis. A master guitar player and singer. Rest in heavenly peace. Glenn Campbell 🎸🎸❤❤
This song is not just about the singing talent of the person performing it, it is about the soul and the feeling put into it. No one wanted to touch let alone record this song until Richard Harris performed it, like the writer Jimmy Web, Harris didn't have the perfect singing voice but he did put feeling into it. It was that feeling which showed other artists the potential of the song. As others have said this is a good performance, but the two finest performances are by Richard Harris and Jimmy Web himself.
You say, "No one wanted to touch let alone record this song until Richard Harris performed it." Where is your evidence that supports that? How many turned it down and who were they?
@@DexterHaven jimmy webb said no one wanted it. Richard Harris, the story goes, was a drinking buddy. A great actor like Harris can draw out life from a stone and turn it into a shooting star.
@@bdff4007 Glenn Campbell did a good version this, as others have.The song didn't need Harris; its distinctive charm is its instrumental break anyway. Brass bands do it well still.
@@DexterHaven Glenn Campbell performed other Jimmy Webb songs and certainly did a great performance here. Never intended to diminish Glenn Campbell. People mocked all that emotion spent on a cake, but I think the composer was going after the production value and the dramatic and evocative reality in the associative power of the experience ... words and music in the subjective value for the listener, more than "what does it mean?" He may have been turned down so many times because it was not the formulaic boilerplate of a conventional "hit" at the time for a Glenn Campbell label. I've never researched Jimmy Webb's reasons for doing it. Maybe he felt stale or in a rut, he may have been having fun with the experimental stuff already out there, but it was the spirit of the age. Hats off to Glenn Campbell for putting his own heart and soul into another Jimmy Webb materpiece. They were equally excellent in a complementary way.
@@bdff4007 Yes, many interviews reveal that Webb said that. Harris took it because of the glorious emotional depth of it, knowing he could use his acting brilliance behind those lyrics -- and it's hard for any singer to follow his performance!
What a amazing talent all his songs bring good memories flooding back he even could play any instruments now that is a entertainer he had a gift he music will live on & on forever what a band god has got up there in heaven wayne .
Just another note about Glenn. Not many people could sell this song like him. He feels every lyric he sings and is beautiful to see and hear. Thanks Glenn
Glen is always awesome. His last concert was fabulous and to see his back going into his dressing room then another back came upon him hand gentle on his shoulder to say: " I love you man". It was a thrill moment to see as I quickly realized it was Paul Mccartney! I thought it cute to recognize him from behind before he spoke.
I saw Glen last night at Andiamo Celebrity Showroom in Warren Michigan. The show was utterly fantastic. He forgot a few words but was able to smooth it over with his wonderful humor.I don't think anyone cared. We were there to see a legend. It's wonderful how his children are there to support him. His beautiful daughter especially! May God bless them all
I'm not familiar with this tv host. (?). Classic song! It's quite a challenging one to re-do. Glen puts heart & soul into it (and Everything he does). Great talent by those I've heard, who have attempted it! Great ORIGINAL tune, for many reasons!!! Thankyou for this version 🎶
One of those very few magical songs that sounds as a different song with every interpretation in the all great versions of Waylon, Richard, Donna, Andy and of course Glen.
Albuquerque is indeed a strange haven for great talent. Glenn Campbell remains a legend forever. Hope you found your way easily to the next vibration, Glenn. 💛🙏🏼
I suspect that lots of Campbell's "pop" fans were fairly clueless about how spectacularly talented he was as a guitarist. I find the same to be true of my favorite "folk artist" -- though that really doesn't do him justice -- Steve Goodman. He was an incredibly good guitarist -- give a listen to his version of "Big Iron" some time. I had several of Campbell's albums on vinyl. Not sure where they've gotten to.
This is officially my all time favorite version of this song. Glen did a killer version of the Moody Blues Question which surprised plenty of Moody fans. He's got chops and versatility.
Glen was a member of "The Wrecking Crew" a group of session musicians who played on MANY great songs and albums from Frank Sinatra and Elvis to Neil Diamond and The Beach Boys. Many of these recordings has Glen playing guitar. He even filled in as a Beach Boy for a while. Check out "Session Men" directed by Gil Baker zmp3.xyz/play/session-men-offline-glen-campbell-the-wrecking-crew-director-gil-baker/w9-FfwwXRDg.html. The movie isn't out yet, but you will see some clips that are going around.
Holy hell. This. Is. Amazing. Donna's version was the first single I ever bought, and then I learned of the Harris original and caught the Letterman extravaganza with Jimmy Webb himself and the giant cake. By cutting one instance of the silly melting park/raining icing chorus Glen does the impossible: he sells the lyric. And that's even before an incomparable take on the majestic "There will be another song for me" interlude that is the best part of the tune BY FAR, and then the Jeff Beck meets Lynyrd Skynyrd solo. Damn. Damn, damn, damn. THIS, boys and girls, is TALENT.
Jimmy Webb, some of the greatest music ever...I believe John Hartford did a lot of this music as well. There's that "one love" in so many of our lives. This one goes out to Nolan...wherever you are.
I learned how to sing from you Glen thank you so much RIP. And thank you Jimmy Webb for allowing me to borrow your bridge on Mac Arthur Park for my first record. Love. Do I see Wanda Vick on fiddle? What a tremendous heavy duty song Jimmy.
Superb! Just saw another Glen Campbell version of this on YT . I am afraid to say I had never heard of this guy before seeing him on these videos today (but then, this was all recorded before my time and I'm British..perhaps that's half an excuse at least!). I love the Richard Harris version, but this for me is right up there with that, along with the Three Degrees' live version. Wonderful stuff.
Jiminy Christmas . This performance just blew me away and gave me chills up my spine . I keep coming back to this song in all its versions and history. There are not too many songs that made me stop what I was doing at the time the first time I heard it and this is one of them. I heard the Richard Harris version first on an oldies station in the early '90s and I literary stopped what I was doing and just listened staring at my early 80s boom box (with coat hanger antenna didn't
There were many great musicians. more then just guitarists.Glen Campbell,Roy Clark,John Denver and more.I’am glad was hear during their journey to hear their greatness.
There are very few who can match the combined talents of this legend! RIP Glen Campbell.
I could listen to Glen Campbell sing the telephone book... and his virtuoso guitar .. nuff said.
I forgot how perfect his voice was
No one played the guitar like Glen Campbell...He was second to none...
As a producer, director, and performer with a full time career in music I believe this this to be one of the greatest written songs I've heard, written by the brilliant writings of Jimmy Webb. Glen Campbell's tremendous performance above and this highly talented back up band, make this a historical pop classic.
Agree 100%
U got to be kidding?
Holy Crap.......90 second guitar solo that smoked the whole time.
You don't see that every day.
So many people do no appreciate what a great written song this is. They have no idea what the song is about because they don't search their hearts deep enough to find out. What a beautifully written song.
I feel it is one of the greatest songs ever written. Many great versions of it, too. Check out the Three Degrees live versions!
Its a song about longing
Comparing the greatest, most passionate love affair one could only dream of is compared to a scrumptious creation of a cake with green icing! Only Jimmy Webb! 😂
Great metaphor
I have no idea what the lyrics mean but like A Whiter Shade of Pale whose lyrics I also don't understand, it's one of the best songs ever
After he puts down his guitar, he jumps around like a little kid - pure joy! It's a very rare musician that gives you such a good feeling ... his fabulous guitar playing notwithstanding.
Yes! The pure joy of performing that wonderfully written and arranged song is on Glen's face and in his jumping around. He just LOVES the song - almost as much as I enjoy listening to it and to him playing guitar on it!
great comment - matsy !!!!!!!
And remember, he started as and became yet also stayed the consummate first call studio musician.
WOW! WOW! WOW! How am I going go to sleep now? WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NO ONE comes near Glen Campbell. Not in his singing. Certainly not in his guitar playing. He is my favorite artist of ALLLLLLLLLL Time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! God Bless Glen Campbell. WOW!~!!!!
Couldn't have said it better.....simply the BEST!!!!
Glen's vocal performance is excellent, no doubt. But his absolute mastery of the guitar is legendary.
Man that was a total shred solo!
@Steve M, did you hear him play the bagpipes? Talent? He was chock-full of it!
You're absolutely right there, I'd forgotten! What a talent!
@@thebarf9235 Aye but some forget the song they are on.
He doesn't.
No, Campbell was a shredder on the guitar, a little enough is all you want to hear. But as a vocalist for Everyman could bring this epic pop dung to the understanding of us all. It’s all here in this performance. Decide for yourself.
Glenn was a studio muscian on more than 300 songs. That how great a guitarist this guy is. One of the greatest musicains of my time thats for sure. Just a giant of a talent.
Indeed. $400 an hour as a member of the Wrecking Crew.
People swear he was the best. It was an incomparable age though. So so many great guitar players, great musicians, and schools that taught music.
@@WilliamJones-sf5pt After this song I listened to others of him, but until now I can't discover what you've said about him.
@@47rintin1 Before spending time subbing for the naughty Smothers Brothers, Glenn made a name for himself as a virtuoso guitar player. Members of the wrecking crew would listen to a song once and then could play it better than the players in the group. That's how they made their money.
Think of Frank Zappa and the Mothers during the sixties as a similar group of proficient musicians. The Wrecking Crew were the original group of specialists.
Wow, I had forgotten Gary Chapman had a show. It was a good one, and this is an illustration of what I mean by that. Thanks.
Shredding that ax like a boss 🎸🔥💥
Glenn Campbell's version is awesome ,your truly missed RIP.
You can't really expect anything less of Glen Campbell really... I loved the look on his face during that instrumental- he was having fun! :)
Brings back memories to when there was music on the radio, also
We all Love YA Glen, Hope to meet ya someday, that Great Gig in the sky.
God Bless You Sir !
One of the most beautiful songs ever written
That is what we call an extra special person with an extra special talent. RIP We all miss you Glen.
That solo though! Straight fire! Prog metal almost. Thanks Jimmy Webb for your songwriting brilliance!
Great Guitar playing!!
I love this song. Glen Campbell talented as usual. But Richard Harris has my heart with this song.
Malinda Smith I agree with you.
Agree
Have you heard Waylon Jenning's version?
je préfère Richard Harris ....
Hard to beat the Irishman.
Wow! On a couple different levels I think this may be the best MacArthur Park ever recorded/performed. And I am a horn 🎺 guy who loves Maynard & his Version. But Glen Campbell with the vocals AND the kick ass guitar solo takes the cake, (no pun intended).
Merle Haggard once said, “If the good Lord ever put too much talent in one person, it was Glen Campbell.” And good Lord how right Merle was.
When Jimmy Webb wrote this song he had Glen Campbell in mind to sing words off paper into unforgettable memories…That’s a recipe that was never lost…
This man can sing anything and sound Great!!!!!!!!!!! I Love Glen Campbell and always will!!!!!!!!!!
Great voice , so sad that he is no longer with us.... he was a Legland
Glen Campbell Is Magnificent 🎙🤠🎸🇺🇸
Only a performer like Glen Campbell can get a guitar solo into a song that literally doesn't require a guitar.
Sad that I wasted most of my years in bands playing rock, and top 40. I should have spent more time listening to greats like GC, Roy Clark, Jim Stafford and Jerry Reed.
I now spend hours in retirement listening to these iconic greats.
RIP Glen.
Glen's talent really shows through here. RIP most talented one.
Wow that Guitar was AWESOME !!! Just like Glen
I love learning new old things. I never knew GC could play guitar like that and was that prog. Love it.
OMG all these years and I never had any idea Glen Campbell could shred a guitar like that ! That was an awesome performance in every aspect. Respect.
If your interested, you should look into his session work when he was younger. He played with everyone from the beach boys to Elvis. A master guitar player and singer.
Rest in heavenly peace.
Glenn Campbell 🎸🎸❤❤
Wow Glen! I didn't know you did this great classic! Wonderfully Awesome!
Listen to him when he sings My Way.
This song is not just about the singing talent of the person performing it, it is about the soul and the feeling put into it. No one wanted to touch let alone record this song until Richard Harris performed it, like the writer Jimmy Web, Harris didn't have the perfect singing voice but he did put feeling into it. It was that feeling which showed other artists the potential of the song. As others have said this is a good performance, but the two finest performances are by Richard Harris and Jimmy Web himself.
You say, "No one wanted to touch let alone record this song until Richard Harris performed it." Where is your evidence that supports that? How many turned it down and who were they?
@@DexterHaven jimmy webb said no one wanted it. Richard Harris, the story goes, was a drinking buddy. A great actor like Harris can draw out life from a stone and turn it into a shooting star.
@@bdff4007 Glenn Campbell did a good version this, as others have.The song didn't need Harris; its distinctive charm is its instrumental break anyway. Brass bands do it well still.
@@DexterHaven Glenn Campbell performed other Jimmy Webb songs and certainly did a great performance here. Never intended to diminish Glenn Campbell. People mocked all that emotion spent on a cake, but I think the composer was going after the production value and the dramatic and evocative reality in the associative power of the experience ... words and music in the subjective value for the listener, more than "what does it mean?" He may have been turned down so many times because it was not the formulaic boilerplate of a conventional "hit" at the time for a Glenn Campbell label. I've never researched Jimmy Webb's reasons for doing it. Maybe he felt stale or in a rut, he may have been having fun with the experimental stuff already out there, but it was the spirit of the age. Hats off to Glenn Campbell for putting his own heart and soul into another Jimmy Webb materpiece. They were equally excellent in a complementary way.
@@bdff4007 Yes, many interviews reveal that Webb said that. Harris took it because of the glorious emotional depth of it, knowing he could use his acting brilliance behind those lyrics -- and it's hard for any singer to follow his performance!
One of the greatest performers that ever lived.
WOW>>>Not only can he sing, but, his playing the guitar is so excellent, what awesome talent he has>>>Thank You Glen Campbell>>>!!!!
Why compare the versions? They're all awesome, as is Glen's guitar work on this.
Purely and joyfully, a God-given talent!
Wow,that most be the most beUtiful Interpretation of my old time favorite song, MacArthur Park, Glen Campbell, you did it!!!
Agree!! Glen Campbell's version is memorable because of his guitar; Richard Harris has my heart for this song as well.....
SAW HIM LAST NIGHT, HES 75 AND WAS FANTASTIC, SAME GUITARING ABILITY AND CAN STILL HIT THE NOTES, LOVED HIM, FIRST TIME I EVER SAW HIM PLAY
An underrated guitar master
The best composition ever
magical song for a magical performer. God grant you rest Glen Campbell.
What a amazing talent all his songs bring good memories flooding back he even could play any instruments now that is a entertainer he had a gift he music will live on & on forever what a band god has got up there in heaven wayne .
Just another note about Glenn. Not many people could sell this song like him. He feels every lyric he sings and is beautiful to see and hear. Thanks Glenn
Somebody needs to digitally remaster this magnificent performance and give GC+ JW justice for masterpiece song MacArthur Park 🎸🎤🎹🥇😍
Check out the In Sessions version with Jimmy Webb
Somebody needs to contact TNN
Enter the following into your youtube search bar. Glen Campbell Live in Concert in Sioux Falls (2001) - MacArthur Park
Excellent!! Sounded like a much bigger ensemble than it actually was. Glen, all the musicians and back up vocalist really did this song justice!
Brilliant artist. Nice performance of a song you wouldn't think Glen would cover.
He recorded quite a few Jimmy Webb songs. Why wouldn’t he do this one?
Glen is always awesome. His last concert was fabulous and to see his back going into his dressing room then another back came upon him hand gentle on his shoulder to say: " I love you man". It was a thrill moment to see as I quickly realized it was Paul Mccartney! I thought it cute to recognize him from behind before he spoke.
Never realized what a great guitarist he was!
Yeah Man. RIP Glen.
Both versions are Great!
The song itself is one of the best of its era.
Although Richard Harris' version is my favorite-I love Glen's performance-master singer and guitarist
Glen You Owned IT......!
Sheer brilliance from this super abundantly talented man.
Absolutely AWESOME!!!
I saw Glen last night at Andiamo Celebrity Showroom in Warren Michigan. The show was utterly fantastic. He forgot a few words but was able to smooth it over with his wonderful humor.I don't think anyone cared. We were there to see a legend. It's wonderful how his children are there to support him. His beautiful daughter especially! May God bless them all
Amo essa musica..o meu bolo tb derreteu
Glen is having so much fun. I love this.
Glen Campbell crossed musical genres with an ease that was is rare indeed.
I'm not familiar with this tv host. (?). Classic song! It's quite a challenging one to re-do. Glen puts heart & soul into it (and Everything he does). Great talent by those I've heard, who have attempted it!
Great ORIGINAL tune, for many reasons!!! Thankyou for this version 🎶
One of those very few magical songs that sounds as a different song with every interpretation in the all great versions of Waylon, Richard, Donna, Andy and of course Glen.
Man, wichita boy's rockin'. You're the best man.
Glen sure knows his way around the fret board, one of the great guitarists of his time.
By the way,,there is no better guitar player than Glen Campbell for the style he did,,he was amazing.
Yup!!!,
You are correct!
MacArthur Park shredded. I love it!
Glen was a sharp dressed man who could light that guitar 🎸 up and he was handsome too!!!
Albuquerque is indeed a strange haven for great talent. Glenn Campbell remains a legend forever. Hope you found your way easily to the next vibration, Glenn. 💛🙏🏼
Yes this is one of the best song ever I love it
How glen campbell used his guitar
For those of you don't think of Glenn as a great Guitarist- Two Words- WRECKING CREW.
When he was part of the wrecking crew Glen was the first call "go to" guy if you wanted a guitar solo played on your recording. Enormously talented.
@@stoutblackcat True - when we lost him, we not only lost a great singer, but also a world-class guitarist.
He had it ALL: a voice, writer, performer, producer & an actor!
Look for yt vid glenn in concert if you want another sample of his great playing.
Amen!
I miss Glen Campbell 😭🎸 Rest his soul
Wonderful version. Looking into his eyes knowing that he is no longer with us is so very sad.
Man Oh Man! What a Talent! Mercy ..............
I suspect that lots of Campbell's "pop" fans were fairly clueless about how spectacularly talented he was as a guitarist. I find the same to be true of my favorite "folk artist" -- though that really doesn't do him justice -- Steve Goodman. He was an incredibly good guitarist -- give a listen to his version of "Big Iron" some time. I had several of Campbell's albums on vinyl. Not sure where they've gotten to.
This is officially my all time favorite version of this song. Glen did a killer version of the Moody Blues Question which surprised plenty of Moody fans. He's got chops and versatility.
Glen was a member of "The Wrecking Crew" a group of session musicians who played on MANY great songs and albums from Frank Sinatra and Elvis to Neil Diamond and The Beach Boys. Many of these recordings has Glen playing guitar. He even filled in as a Beach Boy for a while. Check out "Session Men" directed by Gil Baker zmp3.xyz/play/session-men-offline-glen-campbell-the-wrecking-crew-director-gil-baker/w9-FfwwXRDg.html. The movie isn't out yet, but you will see some clips that are going around.
Yes!! "MY" cake!!
And playing guitar!!
When other great guitarist look at Glen with their mouths open you know how good he is, if you don’t they do lol.
SENSATIONAL!!
Might be the best I've heard of this song
What an amazing singer..amazing everything!! I miss seeing his concerts sooo much
Holy hell. This. Is. Amazing. Donna's version was the first single I ever bought, and then I learned of the Harris original and caught the Letterman extravaganza with Jimmy Webb himself and the giant cake. By cutting one instance of the silly melting park/raining icing chorus Glen does the impossible: he sells the lyric. And that's even before an incomparable take on the majestic "There will be another song for me" interlude that is the best part of the tune BY FAR, and then the Jeff Beck meets Lynyrd Skynyrd solo. Damn. Damn, damn, damn. THIS, boys and girls, is TALENT.
I'm too young to have ever known Glenn Campbell - but Every TH-cam musical rabbit-hole I go down always leads to him - and I'm always blown away!!
Best guitarist in my lifetime and great performer also.
RIP Glenn Campbell
PHENOMENAL !!!!! THE BEST !!!! Mouth open gaping at the screen, coffee getting cold. WONDERFUL X INFINITY.
todas las versiones de esta cancion me gustan y son maravillosa y sublime
Jimmy Webb, some of the greatest music ever...I believe John Hartford did a lot of this music as well.
There's that "one love" in so many of our lives. This one goes out to Nolan...wherever you are.
Alzheimer's is a terrible thing. Glenn was so good, I'm just sad not many will know.
Don't be sad. EVERYONE with more than a passing interest in music knows.
I learned how to sing from you Glen thank you so much RIP. And thank you Jimmy Webb for allowing me to borrow your bridge on Mac Arthur Park for my first record. Love. Do I see Wanda Vick on fiddle? What a tremendous heavy duty song Jimmy.
Magnifica interpretación, de este gran artista!!
The joy and brilliance
Superb! Just saw another Glen Campbell version of this on YT . I am afraid to say I had never heard of this guy before seeing him on these videos today (but then, this was all recorded before my time and I'm British..perhaps that's half an excuse at least!). I love the Richard Harris version, but this for me is right up there with that, along with the Three Degrees' live version. Wonderful stuff.
One of the top 50 artists of the 20th century
One of the Greatest ever, forget him never! Voice, singing, guitar playing and performing ... still outstanding! R.I.P., you are missed ...
Jiminy Christmas . This performance just blew me away and gave me chills up my spine . I keep coming back to this song in all its versions and history. There are not too many songs that made me stop what I was doing at the time the first time I heard it and this is one of them. I heard the Richard Harris version first on an oldies station in the early '90s and I literary stopped what I was doing and just listened staring at my early 80s boom box (with coat hanger antenna didn't
Best recording for this song that I've ever heard. His voice and guitar were flawless! Awesome talent!
There were many great musicians. more then just guitarists.Glen Campbell,Roy Clark,John Denver and more.I’am glad was hear during their journey to hear their greatness.
Greatest song iv’e heard hits you right in your heart and soul
Wow. Love you more than ever Glen.
Glenn was an amazing performer and a virtuoso on the guitar.