Posted on 04/21/2024 11:52:09 AM PDT by Rummyfan
On April 11 1966, Glen Campbell was drafted in as a last minute rhythm guitarist for a recording session with Frank Sinatra. Unable to believe that he was in the presence of his idol, he spent much of his time at the studio on Sunset Boulevard, in Los Angeles, gazing worshipfully at the man laying down the vocal for Strangers In The Night. The attention did not go unnoticed. “Who,” Sinatra hissed, “is that f______ guitar player?”
By the time his anonymous sideman had become a superstar in his own right, just two years later, Old Blue Eyes might well have remarked that Glen Campbell’s talents as a singer, no less, were equal even to his own. Along with an impeccable knack for phrasing and interpretation, the then 30-something Arkansan’s sense of implacable mournfulness – a quality later described by his fourth wife, as “a special sense of longing that lived in the centre of [his] soul,” – lent gravitas to the most unlikely material. In his telling, even the impossibly camp Rhinestone Cowboy sounded oddly forlorn.
In 2024, this ghostly quality is real. The new album Glen Campbell Duets: Ghost On The Canvas Sessions sees a man who has been dead for knocking on eight years now joined by a bevy of notables on a spirited reimagining of his final studio album, Ghost On The Canvas, from 2011. With contributions from Dolly Parton, Eric Clapton, Carole King, Elton John and Daryl Hall (among others), the cast list is indeed stellar. Inevitably, though, Campbell’s own oak tree of a voice refuses to be cowed into anything approaching shared-billing.
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My favorite was always “Gentle on my Mind”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQLSTXiUtEQ One of Glenn’s best vocals.
Glen was no Frank who was and always will be A number one and top of the heap.
Galveston came out when I was in the Navy. Made me feel lonely as hell when I heard it.
I was ok with Natalie singing along to her Dad’s vox. That was in the family.
The “new” Beatles tune Free as a Bird was teetering: playing along with a virtual demo tape of John’s was pushing it, but they WERE in a band.
Everything else is a cash grab and borderline disgusting.
The ultimate was Kenny G, playing his terrible sax on Satchmo’s “What A Wonderful World”.
Big time.
Thank you.
Your Welcome :)
Four and five commas per sentence is a bit much.
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Let me edit that.
Four, and, five, commas, per sentence, is a bit much.
Sorry - couldn’t help it.
“You would think our modern AI geniuses cannot edit him out and edit in some one else who can act”.
Yeah that’s one gig he blew.
Four, and, five, commas, per sentence, is a bit much.
Sorry - couldn’t help it.
Are you William Shatner?
Seriously? Sinatra was the equivalent of Taylor Swift today.
I can’t think of a single song he sang that makes me stop and listen.
Glen Campbell though, he had it. Like Roy Orbison, or Nat King Cole.
The way he could pick that guitar was amazing to see and to listen to.
There is a documentary produced shortly before his death. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Campbell:_I%27ll_Be_Me
It centers on his severe stages of Alzheimers. He didn't know where he was, who his wife and kids were, the lyrics to Galverston and so on. But he never missed a note or a chord on the guitar as he played concerts.
His family took a lot of grief for putting him on stage. But they argued Glen was never happier than when he played and performed; it would be crueler to put him in a home - never to do anything.
Just a sales act. Why mix trash in with the good stuff?
=;^)
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