46 Years Ago: Glen Campbell Gets First Gold Single With ‘Wichita Lineman’

theboot.com ^ | 1-22-14 | Gayle Thompson

[Fiji Hill]

“Pipeline” was recorded at Wenzel’s Music Town, at Lakewood and Gardendale in Downey. Later, Wenzel’s was the best record store in the Southland for those seeking out collectible records. I shopped there hundreds of times from the late 1970’s until it closed in the 1990’s.

[Inyo-Mono]

It was around 1977 or so, I don’t remember exactly, but it was at or near Grauman’s Chinese Theater. Johnny Rivers was on the bill too.

[chimera]

It's just genius, from the writing to the performance and the mixing. An interesting tidbit is that Jimmy Webb plays that haunting little interlude between verses. The studio guys couldn't quite get it right so they unhooked Webb's electric organ and hauled it from his house down to the studio so he could play it as he wrote it.

Also notice that "love" is never mentioned. It goes beyond that, as expressed by the "need you more than want you" lyrics.

[wildbill]

Nothing has honored his life and career more than his manner of leaving it.

[GOPJ]

A few of the many Jimmy Webb songs: “Up, Up and Away”, “By the Time I Get to Phoenix”, and “Galveston”...

[PapaNew]

Good stuff. He is a good old boy headed for Heaven where he’ll be singing forever.

[PapaNew]

Alvin Lee’s Tulsa Queen.

Couldn’t get it or find it.

[Yardstick]

Whoops — meant to say Albert Lee. He was Emmylou Harris’s guitarist for a few years in the seventies. His second solo in the video I linked earlier has this distinctive complex lick that sounds a lot like one Glen Campbell plays in your video.

[Fast Moving Angel]

[ConservativeMan55]

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