Obituaries for 2017

[Millee]

He was my very first crush.  Have been a fan my entire life.  RIP, Mr. Campbell.   

[truth_seeker]

Glenn Campbell has died.

http://www.tmz.com/2017/08/08/glen-campbell-dead/

I'm really bummed out about this. RIP, Rhinestone Cowboy

Sad for this to happen, knew it was coming. My wife just got pissed for me saying this, but I mentioned to her it was probably a relief for both Glen, and his family.

Neither one could have been enjoying these final times.

BEFORE GC made his chops as a C&W performer, he was a member of the wrecking crew in LA, along with Leon Russell, etc.

[truth_seeker]

Two great ones, that died in the last year


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vm3NoFsaKQ0

[debrawiest]

Sad news. He was a phenomenal guitarist. RIP

[Wingnut]

Quite by accident my 1st Glen Campbell 45 I ever bought was "Wichita Lineman" 

I thought it was a football song.  Turns out it was a pretty good little song.  I kept it.

[Applewood]

I envision Campbell in heaven making music with the angels. Rest in peace.

[EasyAce]

I still think these are Glen Campbell's best . . .


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NeHeNZkH7k


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_baSK91-OB8

He was also part of this short-lived experiment, with fellow ex-Beach Boys traveler Gary Usher
and then-Beach Boy Bruce Johnston, making this striking record . . .


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG3rS9M5lwo

RIP Mr. Campbell.

[Free Vulcan]

Campbell was one of the greatest songwriters of any genre.

[Gefn]

I still think these are Glen Campbell's best . . .


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NeHeNZkH7k


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_baSK91-OB8

He was also part of this short-lived experiment, with fellow ex-Beach Boys traveler Gary Usher
and then-Beach Boy Bruce Johnston, making this striking record . . .


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG3rS9M5lwo

RIP Mr. Campbell.

I think Phoenix and Whitata were written by JImmy Webb. Love that guy.

[sneakypete]

Glenn Campbell has died.

http://www.tmz.com/2017/08/08/glen-campbell-dead/

I'm really bummed out about this. RIP, Rhinestone Cowboy

@Freya

I am very sorry to hear that,but he has been in really bad shape the last few years,and there should be a limit to the suffering anyone has to go through.

[Wingnut]

Session Men offline: Glen Campbell & The Wrecking Crew

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9-FfwwXRDg&ab_channel=TheProductionCompanyUSA

[sneakypete]

Two great ones, that died in the last year


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vm3NoFsaKQ0

@truth_seeker

DAYUM! I had managed to forget Leon Russel had died,and now I'm bummed out again. IMHO,one of the greatest singers and songwriters ever. I am continually pissed off every time I hear some millennial dunghead credit Donnie Hathaway with "A Song for You". Leon Russel wrote and performed that song for the woman he married before Donnie Hathaway was a glean in the eye of one of his mama's customers.

[EasyAce]

I think Phoenix and Whitata were written by JImmy Webb. Love that guy.

They were both written by Jimmy Webb. So was "Galveston," another big Campbell hit. From all accounts,
teaming Campbell with producer/arranger Al DeLory and with Webb's material kicked his career from nothing
special to never better starting in 1967-68.

I once had a promo single on Capitol. It was Al DeLory, playing piano and arranging an almost ethereal
re-cut of "Wichita Lineman." I used to like listening to that record in winter, because somehow I always
pictured the protagonist of the song out working an isolated rural line. It might have been the way
DeLory arranged the strings on both his instrumental cut and Campbell's hit, but it was a wintry feeling
that made you feel for the protagonist even if you were growing up near New York City, as I did. I used
to see the linemen working in my little suburb in winter and feel for those poor guys.

[sneakypete]

I once had a promo single on Capitol. It was Al DeLory, playing piano and arranging an almost ethereal
re-cut of "Wichita Lineman." I used to like listening to that record in winter, because somehow I always
pictured the protagonist of the song out working an isolated rural line. It might have been the way
DeLory arranged the strings on both his instrumental cut and Campbell's hit, but it was a wintry feeling
that made you feel for the protagonist even if you were growing up near New York City, as I did

.

@EasyAce

It doesn't take much imagination for anyone who has ever driven through Kansas to imagine the nightmare it must be to be climbing poles in the winter in that part of the country. Cold,bleak,and the damn wind never stops blowing. Get out of town in low visibility like a snowstorm,and it must be like being sealed up in a fishbowl,and cut off from the rest of the world.

Whatever they get paid,it's not enough.

[Gefn]

@EasyAce

JImmy Webb wrote All I know. That song brings me to tears. It's beautiful

[EasyAce]

@truth_seeker

DAYUM! I had managed to forget Leon Russel had died,and now I'm bummed out again. IMHO,one of the greatest singers and songwriters ever. I am continually pissed off every time I hear some millennial dunghead credit Donnie Hathaway with "A Song for You". Leon Russel wrote and performed that song for the woman he married before Donnie Hathaway was a glean in the eye of one of his mama's customers.

Leon Russell wrote that song in 1970, a year after Donny Hathaway signed his Atlantic recording contract.
Hathaway covered "A Song for You" on his second album; it got a lot of air play on radio stations whose
forte was soul music. I missed that album when it was originally released, though I had Hathaway's first
and third (the live set) albums, but I got all five of his Atlantic albums in a small box package recently,
reissued by Rhino/Atlantic a couple of years ago. (Ray Charles eventually recorded a version of "A Song
for You" and won a Grammy for Best Male R&B Performance for his version in 1993.) It was after the last,
Extensions of a Man, that Hathaway's chronic clinical depression kicked over in earnest, eventually
leading him into his 1979 suicide.

Oy those millenials! ;)

[EasyAce]

@EasyAce

JImmy Webb wrote All I know. That song brings me to tears. It's beautiful

@Freya
The songs we've been talking about are almost enough to forgive him for "MacArthur's Park!" ;)

[EasyAce]

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@EasyAce

It doesn't take much imagination for anyone who has ever driven through Kansas to imagine the nightmare it must be to be climbing poles in the winter in that part of the country. Cold,bleak,and the damn wind never stops blowing. Get out of town in low visibility like a snowstorm,and it must be like being sealed up in a fishbowl,and cut off from the rest of the world.

Whatever they get paid,it's not enough.

When I was in the Air Force in Omaha, a master sergeant with a pilot's license befriended me and liked
me to join him flying every Saturday out of our base's Aero Club. We used to fly over Kansas on those
little jaunts, just relaxing, having an airborne smoke and coffee, even in winter. I'd look down at those
big snow-blanketed Kansas areas and wonder, if Omaha could get clobbered in the winter and a trip
from my apartment to the base would have been better done on a dogsled, I could only imagine what
those hearty Kansas folks thought. (On the other hand, flying over Leavenworth I had other thoughts
. . . )

[sneakypete]

Leon Russell wrote that song in 1970, a year after Donny Hathaway signed his Atlantic recording contract.
Hathaway covered "A Song for You" on his second album; it got a lot of air play on radio stations whose
forte was soul music. I missed that album when it was originally released, though I had Hathaway's first
and third (the live set) albums, but I got all five of his Atlantic albums in a small box package recently,
reissued by Rhino/Atlantic a couple of years ago. (Ray Charles eventually recorded a version of "A Song
for You" and won a Grammy for Best Male R&B Performance for his version in 1993.) It was after the last,
Extensions of a Man, that Hathaway's chronic clinical depression kicked over in earnest, eventually
leading him into his 1979 suicide.

Oy those millenials! ;)

@EasyAce

I stand corrected. I figured Hathaway was a puppy because everybody I saw on tv ranting about how good a songwriter he was for having written "A Song for You" were 20-something airheads,and because I had never heard of him.

People crediting him with that song still piss me off,though.

[Wingnut]

@Freya
The songs we've been talking about are almost enough to forgive him for "MacArthur's Park!" ;)

I heard a long time ago he bet Richard Harris a Rolls-Royce that he could write a No. 1 song for him.

[EasyAce]

@EasyAce

I stand corrected. I figured Hathaway was a puppy because everybody I saw on tv ranting about how good a songwriter he was for having written "A Song for You" were 20-something airheads,and because I had never heard of him.

People crediting him with that song still piss me off,though.

@sneakypete
It would have pissed Donny Hathaway off, too. Hathaway was meticulous about giving credit where
due with the material he played. Hathaway was
a fine songwriter, but he'd have been
the first to make sure Leon Russell got the label credit for writing "A Song for You." It was a tragedy
that Hathaway's mental problems got in the way of his talent---he was a phenomenal arranger
and singer and had one of the jazziest sounding soul groups in the business performing with him
---because for a good while it seemed as though he would take R and B farther than anyone
artist since Ray Charles recorded for Atlantic.

[EasyAce]

I heard a long time ago he bet Richard Harris a Rolls-Royce that he could write a No. 1 song for him.

I wonder which Rolls Royce Harris gave him . . .



;)

[Wingnut]

I wonder which Rolls Royce Harris gave him . . .



;)

lol...  did it make #1...in the states anyway.

[sneakypete]

@sneakypete

It would have pissed Donny Hathaway off, too. Hathaway was meticulous about giving credit where
due with the material he played.

@EasyAce

Which is as it should be. Writing a song like "A Song for You" isn't some mindless thing like hitting a home run or scoring a touchdown. It is something pretty damn fine and unique in this world,and the people who are lucky enough to be able to do this should get the recognition they deserve.

[mountaineer]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8TsAh-zYFI&feature=share