Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
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RIP Glen Campbell
What a life! Glen Campbell, 'Rhinestone Cowboy' Singer, Dead at 81 - Rolling Stone
And playing back in the day in Albuquerque, NM where his uncle Dick Bills used to play. https://c1.staticflickr.com/7/6236/6...68446f26_b.jpg
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Glen Campbell
What a great loss! RIP
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Gone.
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Sad that he also suffered through alcohol and drug abuse. Favorite of mine as I grew up in the 60's and 70's.
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Glen Campbell, hit singer and guitarist, dead at 81 - CNN
Really liked his music and his performance with John Wayne in True Grit. |
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Very nice Gracie! Thanks
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When I was a teenager in Albuquerque Glen was playing CW music locally, following in his uncle Dick Bills' footsteps. I knew Glen's drummer's sister and the son of his uncle's drummer who also drove the band's bus. Anyway, Glen would get some money together and do a CW recording which sold to some extent. Then he would do a crossover to pop which would flop. Eventually he succeeded at crossover and really got that music genre's popularity going. He moved to LA in 1960, the year I graduated high school. His career really took off from there. Glen Campbell - Wikipedia Glen is second from right playing lead guitar in his uncle's band @ 1960 Dick Bills and the Sandia Mountain Boys on Vimeo
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"No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth." Plato “To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.” Thomas Paine Last edited by manaboutown; 08-08-2017 at 10:12 PM. |
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My dad is a big Glen Campbell fan, so I'm sure he is feeling the loss today. Glen was one of the greats.
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(sigh)
Memories........ I nearly wore out my Glen Campbell albums....... It's knowin' that your door is always open And your path is free to walk That makes me tend to leave my sleepin' bag Rolled up and stashed behind your couch...... (Those are some seriously sexy lyrics.) And then there was that "Wichita Lineman." To this day, I can't see a utility truck on a country road without thinking about that guy........ Of course, now that sleeping bag surely has been replaced with a sensibly supportive, though overpriced, Tempur-pedic mattress. And I do hope the "Wichita Lineman" is now happily retired with a nice portfolio that includes some good, dividend-paying utility stock. My old albums are long gone -- so this afternoon, while in the throes of nostalgia, I went to Amazon and ordered a Glen Campbell CD.......But.....I will not be hearing Glen through those huge Pioneer speakers that Mr. Boomer brought home from Okinawa -- and that we also used as end tables beside our couch. (sigh) Last edited by Boomer; 08-08-2017 at 10:08 PM. |
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