Oh my...my uncle just told me that Glen Campbell used to work with my dad for my grandfathers company before he went to Hollywood! Wow. Learn something new every day.

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Zero on the video portion-glad y'all like the song:(


That might be why it's in the audio channel?

huh?

>> ^chingalera:

Zero on the video portion-glad y'all like the song:(

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I always thought this was Glen Campbell for some reason. Great song, I have early childhood memories associated with this one.

This looks like it was probably from the Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour show. *1stTube

When I was a young girl, Glen Campbell was my grandmother's favorite musician. I haven't heard him for decades, and hearing this out of the blue, modernized and still the same poignant voice almost made me cry.

As you may know Ive created a playlist of many of the dead videos on the sift. As its been there for awhile, and there have been quite a few views of it, very few vids have been fixed or discarded. I thought a list just of yours might be of some help. The list below are all your videos on my playlist. There may be a few errors, but I gave it my best shot.


http://www.videosift.com/video/Cows-and-cats-are-frequently-secretly-fond-of-each-other
http://www.videosift.com/video/Eddie-Izzard-Mongrel-Nation-part-1-of-15
http://www.videosift.com/video/Slade-Run-Run-Away
http://www.videosift.com/video/1991-BBC-tribute-to-Freddie-Mercury-Part-1-of-6
http://www.videosift.com/video/Glen-Campbell-Wichita-Lineman

Nope, from the midwest actually.

Dunno what's with this song actually. Haven't heard it myself since Glen Campbell had a hit with it. I mainly posted it because I'm a Johnny A fan and I really like this version. For one, the "depressing" lyrics are gone.

What is it with this song, was popular for a spell in the mid-t-late 70's cause Glen Campbell did it.....? Find it pretty melancholy and depressing m'self,..... like anything by Leonard Cohen or Nirvana....has that whole, :"My life sucks ass, please kill me now because I'm too much of a coward to do it myself" kinda vibe......


perhaps its a Brit thing, goofball??, You from cross the pond??

I just found 60otaku's cache of landscape videos -- all 258 of them -- on YouTube while looking for the original audio of Wichita Lineman. Each one is an original film with a classic pop song as soundtrack. And every single one carries the same description/disclaimer:

Music and an image do not have a direct elation.
Please understand the situation...(^^;)
A chief aim is music to the last !

I know where I'll be spending the rest of this weekend ...

It's taken me over 30 years to figure out that this is one of my favourite songs.

From Wikipedia:

"Wichita Lineman" is a popular song written by Jimmy Webb in 1968, first recorded by Glen Campbell and widely covered since. Campbell's version, which appeared on his 1968 album Wichita Lineman, reached #3 on the US charts, remaining in the Top 100 for 15 weeks. In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" ranked "Wichita Lineman" at #192. It has been referred to as 'the first existential country song'.

Webb was inspired to write the lyrics when he saw a solitary lineman near the Kansas-Oklahoma border, possibly in Wichita County, Kansas or south of Wichita, Kansas. (Despite the identical names, the city and county are over 250 road miles (400 km) apart, and the city is noticeably closer to the Oklahoma border than the county.) The lyric describes the longing that a telephone lineman feels for a woman whose voice he hears, perhaps through attaching an earpiece to a stretch of telephone line he is working on. ...

In the first recording, by Glen Campbell, a notable feature of Al de Lory's orchestral arrangement is that the violins and a Gulbranson synthesiser mimic the sounds that a lineman might hear when attaching a telephone earpiece to a long stretch of raw telephone or telegraph line i.e. without typical line equalisation and filtering. One would be aware of high-frequency tones fading in and out, caused by the accidental rectification (the rusty bolt effect) of heterodynes between many radio stations (the violins play this sound); and occasional snatches of Morse Code from radio amateurs or utility stations (this is heard after the line of lyric, "is still on the line"). Heterodynes are also referenced in the lyric, "I can hear you in the whine".