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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.
At the 1969 Grammy Awards, Webb accepted awards for "By the Time I Get to Phoenix", "Wichita Lineman", and "MacArthur Park". In 2019 "Wichita Lineman" was added to the National Recording Registry. [12] In 1969, Glen Campbell continued the streak of Webb hits with the gold record "Galveston" and "Where's the Playground Susie".
"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 ...
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 ...
He commissioned another song from Webb, who soon provided "Wichita Lineman", a "gorgeous, haunting piece of contemporary Americana full of longing, distance, loneliness, and resigned exhaustion." [ 1 ] In 1969, a third addition to the so-called "town songs" cycle, "Galveston", was equally compelling and impressive.
"Dreams of the Everyday Housewife" is a song written by Chris Gantry and recorded by American country music artist Glen Campbell. It was released in July 1968 as the first single from his album Wichita Lineman.
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.
"The Straight Life" was recorded by Glen Campbell on his 1968 LP, Wichita Lineman.; Bing Crosby recorded the song for his 1969 album, Hey Jude/Hey Bing!.; Alternative comedian Neil Hamburger recorded a cover version of the song for his 2019 album Still Dwelling.