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Webb wrote "Wichita Lineman" in response to Campbell's urgent phone request for a "place"-based or "geographical" song to follow up "By the Time I Get to Phoenix". [5]His lyrical inspiration came while driving through the high plains of the Oklahoma panhandle past a long line of telephone poles, on one of which perched a lineman speaking into his handset.
This Story Behind the Song tells the story of songwriter Jimmy Webb and how his song "Wichita Lineman" got recorded by Glen Campbell.
Webb was born on August 15, 1946, in Elk City, Oklahoma, and raised in Laverne, Oklahoma.He grew up in a religiously conservative family; [5] His father, Robert Lee Webb, was a Baptist minister and veteran of the United States Marine Corps who presided over rural churches in southwestern Oklahoma and west Texas.
In 1966, John Hartford was living with his wife and son in a trailer in Nashville, Tennessee.One night, the couple saw the film Doctor Zhivago at a local theater. Inspired by the love story depicted in the film between Yuri Zhivago and Lara Antipova, [2] Hartford returned home and wrote "Gentle on my Mind" in between twenty and thirty minutes. [3]
The protagonist is a soldier waiting to go into battle who thinks of the woman he loves and his hometown of Galveston, Texas.. The song was first released in 1968 by a mournful-sounding Don Ho, [7] who introduced Glen Campbell to it when Ho appeared as a guest on The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour.
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The band’s second album in 15 months, “Stories We Tell Ourselves,” will have its album release party Saturday night at Social Tap.
In the issue of Billboard dated January 4, Glen Campbell was at number one with the album Wichita Lineman, the record's sixth week in the top spot. [2] The album remained at number one through the issue of Billboard dated April 12 and its run of 20 consecutive weeks atop the chart was the longest achieved since the listing was first published ...