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Wichita Lineman
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Glen Campbell
Wichita Lineman
Capitol Records
ST 103
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Original 1968 album liner notes
Side one
WICHITA LINEMAN
(Jim Webb)
Canopy Music
3:08
(Sittin’ On) THE DOCK OF THE BAY
(Steve Cropper-Otis Redding)
Time Music Co. Inc. / Redwal Music Inc. / East Publications
2:35
IF YOU GO AWAY
(Music & French lyrics: Jacques Brel / English lyrics: Rod McKuen)
E.B. Marks Music Corp.
3:37
ANN
(Billy Edd Wheeler)
Bexhill Music Corp. / Quartet Music Inc.
1:56
WORDS
(B. Gibb-R. Gibb-M. Gibb)
Nemperor Music Limited
2:45
FATE OF MAN
(Glen Campbell)
Glen Campbell Music
2:38
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Side two
DREAMS OF THE EVERYDAY HOUSEWIFE
(Chris Gantry)
Combine Music Corp.
2:30
THE STRAIGHT LIFE
(Sonny Curtis)
Viva Music Inc.
2:56
REASON TO BELIEVE
(Tim Hardin)
Faithful Virtue Music
2:15
YOU BETTER SIT DOWN KIDS
(Sonny Bono)
Chrismarc Music / Cotillion Music, Inc.
3:15
THAT’S NOT HOME
(Billy Graham)
Glen Campbell Music
2:45
All selections are BMI, except Wichita Lineman which is ASCAP.
Arranged, Conducted and Produced by AL DE LORY
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Probably one of the best albums you’ve ever heard…
Probably the best album he’s ever made…
After you’ve made it…what then?…
In the case of a Glen Campbell, you decide to do more of what you’ve been doing right for the last year or so. You keep listening to virtually every song composed in hopes of coming up with more hits like Gentle On My Mind and the Jim Webb “overnight” standard, By The Time I Get To Phoenix. You get excited about being invited to do a major summer TV-show and do it so well that the networks and viewers clamor for more…on a regular winter schedule basis. You prove to sometimes skeptical audiences and program directors that you’re more than a fluke…more than just another singer with just another hit…perhaps more than just another personality who’s seen and heard and soon forgotten. You establish yourself as an entertainer with a variety of repertoire, wide-ranging appeal and substance; an artist who can sing a Country song and have urbanities so entranced as to renew the talk of a Country trend in popular music; an artist who can sing a “pop” song that makes Country hearts and charts; an artist who is willing and most able to share billing with another artist like Miss Bobbie Gentry in order to create one of the finest duo albums ever created. You accidentally establish yourself as an entertainer’s entertainer…but most importantly, as an audience’s entertainer who enjoys nothing more fully than having people of all names, ranks and serial numbers enjoy the entertainment they expected to enjoy.
And after “what then”…what now?…
In the case of a Glen Campbell, you record what worked out to be probably the best album you’ve ever recorded. You don’t rest on what was then…rather you concentrate on what’s now. You sing a great new Jim Webb composition that’s not “rock” and not “Country” and not “blues” and not anything in particular except uncategorically great…a unique song about a Wichita County telephone lineman in love. You perform a narrative song called Fate Of Man which concerns precisely that – a song which grows from childhood to old age without ever touching on the maudlin or mundane…a song composed by a guitar player named Glen Campbell. And if that’s not enough greatness for one album (and it isn’t since you can get those two songs on one single), you sing your recent hit which didn’t make it into any of the other albums – Dreams Of The Everyday Housewife. And you add the great songs that happened for other artists, but in your own style: you sing a song called (Sittin’ On) The Dock Of The Bay which made Otis Redding a popular household name; then you sing a classic that Sonny Bono composed for Cher to sing and for Glen Campbell to admire – You Better Sit Down Kids; you repeat the Bee Gee’s meaningful Words with a different accent; you take Jacque Brel and Rod McKuen’s If You Go Away and record a male version which rivals the impact of Damita Jo’s superb female reading. Add a couple of lesser-known songs that are just as great – like composer Tim Hardin’s Reason To Believe and Billy Edd Wheeler’s Ann and a couple more – and you’ve come up with an album that you feel is significant – “Wichita Lineman.”
– Dan Davis
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Member RIAA
18
Capitol Records
EMI – The Greatest Recording Organisation In The World
STEREO
This stereo record can also be played on modern monophonic equipment, safely and with excellent results. Today’s improved record-playing equipment – mono as well as stereo – features lightweight tone arms and flexible pick-ups that will not damage your stereo discs. Thus stereo records can now be purchased with assurance by owners of monophonic phonographs. They will provide excellent mono sound on modern monophonic players, and superb stereo sound when you later acquire stereo equipment.
Manufactured by Capitol Records, Inc. a Subsidiary of Capitol Industries, Hollywood and Vine Streets, Hollywood, Calif. T.M. Marca Reg. U.S. Pat. No. 2,631,859
Factories: Scranton, PA., Los Angeles, Calif., Jacksonville, Ill.
Printed in U.S.A.
ST 103
File: Campbell / Male Vocal
To download this album via iTunes, click here:
To buy this album from Amazon.com, click here: Wichita Lineman
__________________________________________________
Glen Campbell
Wichita Lineman
Capitol Records
ST 103
__________________________________________________
Original 1968 album liner notes
Side one
WICHITA LINEMAN
(Jim Webb)
Canopy Music
3:08
(Sittin’ On) THE DOCK OF THE BAY
(Steve Cropper-Otis Redding)
Time Music Co. Inc. / Redwal Music Inc. / East Publications
2:35
IF YOU GO AWAY
(Music & French lyrics: Jacques Brel / English lyrics: Rod McKuen)
E.B. Marks Music Corp.
3:37
ANN
(Billy Edd Wheeler)
Bexhill Music Corp. / Quartet Music Inc.
1:56
WORDS
(B. Gibb-R. Gibb-M. Gibb)
Nemperor Music Limited
2:45
FATE OF MAN
(Glen Campbell)
Glen Campbell Music
2:38
__________________________________________________
Side two
DREAMS OF THE EVERYDAY HOUSEWIFE
(Chris Gantry)
Combine Music Corp.
2:30
THE STRAIGHT LIFE
(Sonny Curtis)
Viva Music Inc.
2:56
REASON TO BELIEVE
(Tim Hardin)
Faithful Virtue Music
2:15
YOU BETTER SIT DOWN KIDS
(Sonny Bono)
Chrismarc Music / Cotillion Music, Inc.
3:15
THAT’S NOT HOME
(Billy Graham)
Glen Campbell Music
2:45
All selections are BMI, except Wichita Lineman which is ASCAP.
Arranged, Conducted and Produced by AL DE LORY
___________________________________________________
Probably one of the best albums you’ve ever heard…
Probably the best album he’s ever made…
After you’ve made it…what then?…
In the case of a Glen Campbell, you decide to do more of what you’ve been doing right for the last year or so. You keep listening to virtually every song composed in hopes of coming up with more hits like Gentle On My Mind and the Jim Webb “overnight” standard, By The Time I Get To Phoenix. You get excited about being invited to do a major summer TV-show and do it so well that the networks and viewers clamor for more…on a regular winter schedule basis. You prove to sometimes skeptical audiences and program directors that you’re more than a fluke…more than just another singer with just another hit…perhaps more than just another personality who’s seen and heard and soon forgotten. You establish yourself as an entertainer with a variety of repertoire, wide-ranging appeal and substance; an artist who can sing a Country song and have urbanities so entranced as to renew the talk of a Country trend in popular music; an artist who can sing a “pop” song that makes Country hearts and charts; an artist who is willing and most able to share billing with another artist like Miss Bobbie Gentry in order to create one of the finest duo albums ever created. You accidentally establish yourself as an entertainer’s entertainer…but most importantly, as an audience’s entertainer who enjoys nothing more fully than having people of all names, ranks and serial numbers enjoy the entertainment they expected to enjoy.
And after “what then”…what now?…
In the case of a Glen Campbell, you record what worked out to be probably the best album you’ve ever recorded. You don’t rest on what was then…rather you concentrate on what’s now. You sing a great new Jim Webb composition that’s not “rock” and not “Country” and not “blues” and not anything in particular except uncategorically great…a unique song about a Wichita County telephone lineman in love. You perform a narrative song called Fate Of Man which concerns precisely that – a song which grows from childhood to old age without ever touching on the maudlin or mundane…a song composed by a guitar player named Glen Campbell. And if that’s not enough greatness for one album (and it isn’t since you can get those two songs on one single), you sing your recent hit which didn’t make it into any of the other albums – Dreams Of The Everyday Housewife. And you add the great songs that happened for other artists, but in your own style: you sing a song called (Sittin’ On) The Dock Of The Bay which made Otis Redding a popular household name; then you sing a classic that Sonny Bono composed for Cher to sing and for Glen Campbell to admire – You Better Sit Down Kids; you repeat the Bee Gee’s meaningful Words with a different accent; you take Jacque Brel and Rod McKuen’s If You Go Away and record a male version which rivals the impact of Damita Jo’s superb female reading. Add a couple of lesser-known songs that are just as great – like composer Tim Hardin’s Reason To Believe and Billy Edd Wheeler’s Ann and a couple more – and you’ve come up with an album that you feel is significant – “Wichita Lineman.”
– Dan Davis
___________________________________________________
Member RIAA
18
Capitol Records
EMI – The Greatest Recording Organisation In The World
STEREO
This stereo record can also be played on modern monophonic equipment, safely and with excellent results. Today’s improved record-playing equipment – mono as well as stereo – features lightweight tone arms and flexible pick-ups that will not damage your stereo discs. Thus stereo records can now be purchased with assurance by owners of monophonic phonographs. They will provide excellent mono sound on modern monophonic players, and superb stereo sound when you later acquire stereo equipment.
Manufactured by Capitol Records, Inc. a Subsidiary of Capitol Industries, Hollywood and Vine Streets, Hollywood, Calif. T.M. Marca Reg. U.S. Pat. No. 2,631,859
Factories: Scranton, PA., Los Angeles, Calif., Jacksonville, Ill.
Printed in U.S.A.
ST 103
File: Campbell / Male Vocal
