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Topic: Glen Campbell diagnosed with Alzheimer's |
Barry Blackwood
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Jerry Overstreet
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Louisville Ky
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Posted 23 Jun 2011 6:09 pm |
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Sad news Barry. Thanks for the post.  |
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Kevin Hatton
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Buffalo, N.Y.
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Posted 23 Jun 2011 7:08 pm
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| Wow. What a shame. |
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Russ Wever
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Kansas City
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Bill Hatcher
From:
Atlanta Ga. USA
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Posted 24 Jun 2011 4:07 am
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| Russ Wever wrote: |
click --> Glen Campbell
Probably a little different than
what we typically think of him.
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wow!! |
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Dan Hatfield
From:
Columbia, Mo USA
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Posted 24 Jun 2011 10:41 am
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Hey Russ, sounds like he was in his k.d. lang mode on that one.  |
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Charles Davidson
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Phenix City Alabama, USA
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Posted 24 Jun 2011 11:18 am
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Saw Glenn on Ralph Emery's show a few months ago. My wife and I both knew he was showing signs of Alzheimers. [She works with them] He could'nt remember a lot of things Ralph asked about his childhood,He sang several songs and could'nt remember the keys he sang in. I felt so sad for him.Always admired his music,beautiful voice AND a GREAT picker. YOU BETCHA,DYK?BC.
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Joachim Kettner
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Germany
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Theresa Galbraith
From:
Goodlettsville,Tn. USA
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Posted 24 Jun 2011 2:07 pm
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I grew up watching "The Glen Campbell Show"! He was awesome back then and still today. God Bless Glen Campbell  |
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David Mason
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Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 25 Jun 2011 5:33 am
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Him playing "Stars and Stripes Forever" on Johnny Carson was sort of my "Beatles on Sullivan" moment. Whoa - I want to do that...
I think this guy stole it from him:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cyiq6lewgOk |
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Franklin
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Posted 25 Jun 2011 7:55 am
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| David Mason wrote: |
Him playing "Stars and Stripes Forever" on Johnny Carson was sort of my "Beatles on Sullivan" moment. Whoa - I want to do that...
I think this guy stole it from him:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cyiq6lewgOk |
I heard about Chet playing "Stars and Stripes" when I moved to town in 1972.....When was Glen's Tonight show performance?
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Russ Tkac
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Scott Shewbridge
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Bay Area, N. California
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Posted 25 Jun 2011 9:40 am
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| I remember sitting in my mom's '66 poweder blue Mustang listening to Wichita Lineman. The film the Wrecking Crew exposed some of Mr. Campbell's studio work, that I was ignorant of. He is an important part of so much great music. The best to him and his family. |
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David Mason
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Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 25 Jun 2011 11:32 am
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| I heard about Chet playing "Stars and Stripes" when I moved to town in 1972.....When was Glen's Tonight show performance? |
I honestly think it was earlier than that, it might have been one of those challenges that was floating around Nashville? I was 12 in 1972, and this was surely earlier than that... I was watching with my father, who was a trumpet player who had played his way through WWII in "the" Army Band. So he'd played it a million times, I remember him wondering if Glen was going to play the piccolo obbligato - of course, he nailed it. I was just having fun there, I couldn't tell you who came up with the thing, in fact Chet wanders off into a little improv there too, which is a bit unusual for Sousa march music.
EDIT: I just found this interview with Van Duser:
http://www.bobfelten.com/van_duser.htm
He says he showed Chet his arrangement in 1977 or 1978, so Chet was already playing it by then - just playing it "wrong." Yeah, I'd like to know those wrong notes too. |
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LJ Eiffert
From:
California, USA
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Posted 13 Jul 2011 10:14 pm
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| This is very sad about Glen.I just has an Uncle who just died from this two weeks ago.I sure enjoyed working with Glen over the years and being a friend.God Bless You Glen.Sincerely,Leo J.Eiffert,Jr. & the Gold Star Recording Crew with my late friend Stan Ross & his Partner who is still alive,Dave Gold. |
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Lefty
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Grayson, Ga.
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Posted 6 Aug 2011 5:34 am
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I saw Glen on the Ralph Emery show, and he was obviously having some issues. He was having a hard time remebering the names of all Brothers and Sisters, but he had a large family (10 or 12, I believe).
His singing and playing was amazingly good (as always). My mother had Alzheimer's before her death, and it is a terrible thing.
Let's pray Glen get's better.
Lefty |
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Mark Eaton
From:
Sonoma County in The Great State Of Northern California
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Dave Simonis
From:
Stevens Point, WI USA
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Posted 11 Sep 2011 7:30 pm
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I have tickets to go see him in early December at one of his last few. Anybody playing steel with him?
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David Mason
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Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 12 Sep 2011 4:36 am
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| Alzheimer's doesn't get better. After seeing my mother go through it, I found the Aricept commercials to be unaccountably cruel. You know the ones - brooding minor key music, Grandpa can't remember little Billy's name, the announcer says the word "Aricept" and the music turns major and Grandpa says "Billy!", the sun come out and everybody's happy and hugging... there used to be laws against that crap until they defanged the FCC. It may slow down the disease - the evidence is thin - but as a family you tend to grasp at anything to "snap them out of it", a new kitten, some picture books, a $1,000 pill... Music is sometimes rooted deeper than language, but different people can have entirely different patterns of what leaves in what order. |
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 12 Sep 2011 6:57 am
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| Well said, David. I have also found the big pill-pushing pharmaceutical companies to be completely without conscience in their quest for the almighty dollar. |
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Ron Whitfield
From:
Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Peter Freiberger
From:
California, USA
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Posted 12 Sep 2011 5:40 pm
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| Besides his work on guitar Campbell was also a busy background singer in the L.A. studios long before his pop success. He was, for instance, one of the background group on Ricky Nelson's records, like "Traveling Man" with Al Capps, also a very successful arranger and composer, Jerry Fuller, who wrote that song as well as many others, and produced quite a few hit records and Ron Hicklin, one of the busiest singers and vocal contractors in L.A. from the '60's through the '90's. Glen Campbell and the L.A. session players and singers of that era were an extraordinary group. Look these guys up in Allmusic.com and you'll be amazed at their record credits, and that probably doesn't list their film, TV and commercial work. |
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Kevin Hatton
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Buffalo, N.Y.
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Posted 13 Sep 2011 6:30 am
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| Cambell is a legend. He was square in the middle of things as they were happening in the L.A. music scene. A GREAT entertainer as well as musician. I also agree with you on the pharma pill pushing issue. It's flat out imoral and there should be FCC laws to stop it. Near Snake Oil salesman. Disgraceful. |
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Will Houston
From:
Tempe, Az
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Posted 12 Oct 2011 3:22 pm
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| Wow!!! I just saw Glen perform Wichita Lineman on the Ellen show. Very moving, I had the chills and was near tears. His backup band was his children. |
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Joachim Kettner
From:
Germany
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Posted 12 Dec 2011 8:09 pm
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Glen Campbell and Leon Russel with "Gentle On My Mind":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vm3NoFsaKQ0
Really good guitar playing, I think!
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