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This weekend's Glen Campbell guitar lesson - Galveston w/ Steve Wariner as his backup...
yousetube ^ | 1968 | Jimmy Webb

Posted on 12/04/2021 3:01:38 PM PST by FLNittany

There is a shorter version of this performance that doesn't include the mindless thoughts of people like Melissa Etheridge and Toby Keith, but this is a higher quality video than the alternative. And, it has Merle. Also, Jimmy Webb wasn't writing about Vietnam. He was writing about the Spanish-American War.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: galveston; glen; wariner
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To: Allegra

we had a major talent pool with guns!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmNG2FaPyqE


21 posted on 12/04/2021 4:46:32 PM PST by mylife (Joe Biden is like bald tires in the rain, Alec Baldwin with a gun....)
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To: Allegra

Like Roger McGinunn and the byrds all totally cool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tBZ9fdGUdg


22 posted on 12/04/2021 4:52:57 PM PST by mylife (Joe Biden is like bald tires in the rain, Alec Baldwin with a gun....)
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To: FLNittany
Not sure what your post adds to that.

You wrote that the song is about a Galvestonian fighting in the Spanish-American War. When he returns to Galveston after the war concludes, he and his lady love had better make plans to clear out. If they're still in Galveston 25 months after the war ended, they will be very, very, very sorry.

23 posted on 12/04/2021 4:56:33 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: Fiji Hill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYZ6b7H5qSY&list=OLAK5uy_mYKEmWrDj7fbb9mKjwAlffRW9i6xrDp3E


24 posted on 12/04/2021 5:01:30 PM PST by mylife (Joe Biden is like bald tires in the rain, Alec Baldwin with a gun....)
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To: mylife

like calling up thunder..


25 posted on 12/04/2021 5:03:45 PM PST by mylife (Joe Biden is like bald tires in the rain, Alec Baldwin with a gun....)
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To: Fiji Hill

Take it up with Jimmy Webb.


26 posted on 12/04/2021 5:05:19 PM PST by FLNittany
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RIP Glenn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bacWTnzkQ4Q&list=OLAK5uy_mYKEmWrDj7fbb9mKjwAlffRW9i6xrDp3E&index=6


27 posted on 12/04/2021 5:16:37 PM PST by mylife (Joe Biden is like bald tires in the rain, Alec Baldwin with a gun....)
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Brilliant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZOEasPSZiM&list=OLAK5uy_mYKEmWrDj7fbb9mKjwAlffRW9i6xrDp3E&index=8


28 posted on 12/04/2021 5:21:55 PM PST by mylife (Joe Biden is like bald tires in the rain, Alec Baldwin with a gun....)
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To: mylife

Those are some great videos!


29 posted on 12/04/2021 5:52:09 PM PST by Allegra
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To: FLNittany
Take it up with Jimmy Webb.

Jimmy Webb is still around. Perhaps he could write a sequel to "Galveston" about how the soldier and his lover settled down in Galveston--and how they coped with what happened two years later.

30 posted on 12/04/2021 6:07:48 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: Fiji Hill

He’s easily accessible on FB. Have at it. Why are you quizzing me about it? Not every popular song was written to meet your historical standards. I know that’s hard to believe, but it’s true. Songs are written to make money, not record history.


31 posted on 12/04/2021 6:19:01 PM PST by FLNittany
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To: Lockbox

Wichita Lineman is one of my favorite All-time songs.


32 posted on 12/04/2021 6:57:07 PM PST by hirn_man
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To: FLNittany
Thanks for posting this one. Glen looks sharp here - strong voice, throwing in some healthy kicks on the solo, and looks really happy to be up there. Nobody like him.

I had to skip past the Toby Keith and Etheridge parts.

33 posted on 12/05/2021 8:31:37 AM PST by HonkyTonkMan ( )
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To: FLNittany
Songs are written to make money, not record history.

You're the one who said that "Galveston" was written to record history.

34 posted on 12/05/2021 6:50:30 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: hirn_man; FLNittany
Wichita Lineman is one of my favorite All-time songs.

Being a fan of the USC Trojans, despite their underachievement this year, I like football songs, and "Wichita Lineman" is one of the great football songs of all time.

35 posted on 12/05/2021 6:54:20 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: Lockbox
A group of session musicians, including an uncredited Glen Campbell, waxed this tune under the name Saggitarius. It only reached #67 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, but in my opinion, it's one of the best songs of the late sixties.

My World Fell Down--Sagittarius (1967)

36 posted on 12/05/2021 7:06:30 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: FLNittany

Galveston is an anti-Vietnam War song—and you know it! Glen Campbell, Jane Fonda and other leftist glitterati undermined our war effort and contributed to the Communist takeover of Southeast Asia and the subsequent murder of millions of innocent pelple.

Notice that the singer refers to his weapon as his “gun,” so the song could not have been written by a veteran but probably by some hippie who scribbled it as he smoked his joints. It makes me sick to see this adulation for these balloon-brained leftist “celebrities” on a conservative website.


37 posted on 12/10/2021 5:52:03 PM PST by Rufii
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To: Fiji Hill

I don’t check in here too often anymore, but that is really funny.


38 posted on 12/21/2021 6:50:38 PM PST by hirn_man
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