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Playlist by Algernon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxSarBcsKLU
Wichita linesman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTbTHlTmDX8
Galveston
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUg5p3BncuQ
By the time I get to Phoenix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t12LDTxP6to
All I have to do is dream – with Bobbie Gentry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Lt57tM-4LE
Bonaparte’s retreat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kAU3B9Pi_U
Rhinestone Cowboy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wOUFo4Lwf8
Southern Nights
Would you believe it when I was last living in Cairns in the 90s and had a vinyl records market business, I came across some very choice recordings, among them the Beatles when they were with Tony Sheridan in Germany. Sigh that I don’t have them any more.
Anyway there were a number of what looked like sample recordings, carted around by someone in the record publishing business I wondered. There was one like no other, in an unadorned cover, to my ear an amateur recording but considerable quality musicianship, I thought a crowd of individuals having a very good time. I had been in the period discovering ska so identified a lot of it reminded me of ska, jingly jangly. I thought ‘garage’ given the ambience did not sound as if the recording was made through a professional desk. After i listened to it a few times, which I rarely did as I had hundreds of recordings sometimes to listen to in any one week and decide their value, I even reflected the sound was so novel it ought to have been a commercial success if it was released, looked closer at names. The type was smallish, on a piece of typing paper glued to the cover and a bit roughed up, I can’t remember if it was a list or grouped. A name jumped out at me. Glenn Campbell and then I was amazed to see Leon Russell. Kick myself now I did not recognise and memorise other names among them.
I carted it south with other recordings I thought were of considerable keep value and not having a good record player stored it for years in Adelaide in a linen cupboard that chokkers with recordings. It went with a massive selection I singled out to go to a friend’s collector friend who I heard had a room that was dedicated to a vinyl record library. I could not afford to cart the selected albums around and decided I wanted them to go to a keeper. Once since I saw him. I was too overwhelmed to tell him what he had done when I learned that instead of checking how much value he had, he let someone else pick through them, who he said took a lot. Wires got crossed. He thought he was helping out taking someone’s burden of a lot of records when they had to move house. I could not bear to think about it. The only album that has zoomed to mind ever more is the Glenn Campbell/Leon Russell band.
The one that got away.
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That is how i knew Glenn Campbell was one hell of a musician. I heard him without knowing who it was. At least I had the experience. Great pleasure.
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Is that Leon Russell of “Roll away the Stone”?
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Dunno, mate. I’m literit but I got a hell of a bad memory for titles of stuff. As least you remember there was a title in the first plaice.
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Strange you should mention the Glen Campbell Leon Russell collaboration. Found some ofd this putting together this week’s offereing. Watch this space.
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Wow! Ok!
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Nice and soothing stuff. Always pleasant to hear and songs were meaningful.
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Very nice indeed
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I grew up on his songs as a kid in the country then down to the Gong. Always great memories. Vale. Thanks for this list Ace.
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Much the same in the city too Hung. Mrs A thought Rhinestone Cowboy, mine would have to be Witchita Linesman
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I with you Ace. I reckon Witchita Linesman was pretty special. Interestingly Stevie Wonder brings up lots of memories as well.
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Thanks, as always, Algy. Sadly, another one bites the dust. I didn’t realise he was such as prolific session musician before he became famous in his own right. Vale Glen Campbell.
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He was an absolute shedder on the guitar, well before the term was invented. I remember as a kid seeing him play super fast on TV. He may have been the fastest guitarist in the world in his youth, you know, proper single notes played, not hammering! Plus a great voice, and chose beautifully crafted songs.
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I agree Big
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My like button doesn’t work any more Big but 100% with you on that one.
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He also had a phenomenal body of work of his own. Something like 58 studio albums.
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