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"Wichita Lineman" is a 1968 song written by Jimmy Webb for American country music artist Glen Campbell, [2] who recorded it backed by members of the Wrecking Crew. [3] Widely covered by other artists, it has been called "the first existential country song".
The actual Wichita lineman was a real person we know little about. Webb remembered when traveling through the panhandle of Oklahoma and Texas, seeing miles and miles of nothing but telephone poles ...
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.
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.
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]
"Wichita Lineman" "The Moon's a Harsh Mistress" "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" "If These Walls Could Speak" "Didn't We" "Worst That Could Happen" "All I Know" "McArthur Park" Guardian Records 1996: R.E.M. single "Wichita Lineman" (live) Warner Bros. Records: 1997: Carly Simon: Film Noir "Film Noir" Arista Records: 1997 Christine Andreas Love Is ...
In his review on Allmusic, Bruce Eder praised the project, comparing it to the previous Richard Harris album, A Tramp Shining, and writing that "the lyrics are dazzling in their cascading imagery, the music is richer and more vividly conceived and recorded, and the entire album works magnificently." [3]
Move over, Wordle, Connections and Mini Crossword—there's a new NYT word game in town! The New York Times' recent game, "Strands," is becoming more and more popular as another daily activity ...