| | Glen Campbell Galveston CD Glen Campbell Discography of CDs
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With its two Jimmy Webb-penned hits--the sweetly melodic title track and the slightly overwrought though lyrically obscure melodrama of "Where's the Playground Susie?"--one might expect GALVESTON to be, like GENTLE ON MY MIND before it, one of Glen Campbell's more pop-oriented albums. The fact is, however, that GALVESTON is the album on which Campbell once and for all swings firmly to the country side of country-pop, where he would stay--barring minor digressions like the country-disco fusion of 1977's "Southern Nights"--for the rest of his career. Producer/arranger Al de Lory and Campbell stick to the Nashville Sound even on tracks like the Spanish-guitar showcase "If This Is Love" (on which Campbell's often-underrated picking skills are flashily shown off) and the trad-folk "Today." Closing out Campbell's early period with some of his best songs, GALVESTON is also a forerunner to the sound Campbell would explore in the '70s.
This is part of Capitol's Cornerstones series.
Personnel: Glen Campbell (vocals, guitar).
Arranger: Al DeLory.Q (3/02, p.133) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...The title track of this album is still the most weepsome anti-war song ever recorded..." Glen Campbell Galveston Songs Purchase Galveston CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Sonny & Cher Wondrous World Of Sonny & Cher CD (1998)
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For their second album, Sonny and Cher largely dropped both the overt Spectorisms and derivative folk-rock of their debut, 1965's LOOK AT US, instead refining the two into an utterly unique blend. There were few protest songs as dazzlingly-arranged as "Laugh At Me," originally released as a Sonny solo single. The follow-up "The Revolution Kind," included as a bonus track, shows the political leanings which would eventually get Sonny elected as a Republican congressman.
Much of the album consists of covers--"Summertime" a la the Zombies' breathy version, "Tell Him," "I'm Leaving It Up To You," etc.--all given the inimitable Sonny and Cher treatment. Even this early in her career, Cher seems certain that attitude counts for more than innate talent. And for a guy who publicly played the fool, Sonny's orchestral jangle ...
| | Glen Campbell Wichita Lineman CD (1968) Remastered
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The most eclectic of Glen Campbell's late-1960s albums, and his first number one LP, 1968's WICHITA LINEMAN runs from the orchestral melodrama of the title track--the signature song of Glen Campbell's entire career, apart from perhaps "Rhinestone Cowboy"--and the follow-up hit "Dreams of the Everyday Housewife" to a wide variety of covers in some unexpected styles. These include excellent takes of Tim Hardin's "Reason to Believe" (possibly the best of the many covers of Hardin's definitive original), a Dean Martin-like middle-of-the-road version of Sonny Curtis's "The ...
| | Glen Campbell Gentle On My Mind CD (1967) Remastered
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Compared to the purer Nashville Sound country of the albums that immediately preceded it, including Glen Campbell's breakthrough album BY THE TIME I GET TO PHOENIX, GENTLE ON MY MIND is basically an orchestrated folk-rock record. It's much less twangy than ...
| | Glen Campbell By The Time I Get To Phoenix CD (1968) Remastered
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Contrary to popular belief, 1967's BY THE TIME I GET TO PHOENIX was not Glen Campbell's first album for Capitol Records; he had released several other albums and singles for the label since 1964, including the lost Brian Wilson treasure "Guess I'm Dumb" in 1966. This album, however, was both his commercial breakthrough and represents the first fruits of his collaboration with Jimmy Webb, the songwriter who would go on to pen most of Campbell's biggest hits.
The title track is the only Webb composition on the record, but the other 10 tracks are equally fine, particularly ...
| | Glen Campbell Rhinestone Cowboy/Bloodline CD (2002) (Import) Australia
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Raven's 2002 two-fer reissue of Glen Campbell's 1975 album Rhinestone Cowboy and 1976's Bloodline is given three bonus tracks and billed as "The Lambert & Potter Sessions 1975-1976," since these two albums were produced (and occasionally written) by Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter and have a distinctive sound unlike many other records in Campbell's catalog. It's not a coincidence that Campbell began working with Lambert and Potter after reuniting with Jimmy Webb for the understated Reunion, since this is a logical step forward from Webb's symphonic, intricate compositions. Lambert and Potter weren't as quirky as songwriters or producers, but they had an excellent ear for songs and had grand concepts, helping Campbell build on the excellent Reunion, as well as songs like "Houston (I'm Coming to See You)," with these two grandly polished, sweeping records. Sonically and thematically, there's not much separating the two records; they work as companion pieces, almost like two halves of a double album, so they work perfectly as a two-fer. Simply put, these two records are the best Campbell released since the late '60s, when he was delivering records like Galveston and By the Time I Get to Phoenix, because they work like those albums -- they're commercial and catchy, but there is real emotion in their opulent arrangements, along with consistently ...
| | Association Live CD (1970)
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This 75-minute album, originally a double-LP (recorded live at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City on April 3, 1970) is a valiant attempt at capturing the Association's concert sound on record. Unfortunately, it fails for several reasons, beginning with the fact that the instrumental mix is very bass-heavy -- even with adjustments to compensate, this overwhelms much of the rest of the band on several key numbers. Additionally, the group's singing, though more than adequate, lacks the presence needed to give their harmonies the necessary radiance to make the music fully attractive, coming off instead as anemic. The real problem is that cutting a live album was a thankless task for this group -- so much of their sound was dependent on a studio-driven perfection -- that live recording was an exercise in futility (let's put it this way -- the Beach Boys pulled this off more than once, but they had a resident genius around part of the time doing their arrangements; the Association: no genius in the ranks). "Goodbye Columbus" is a case in point, it's a breezy, cheerful number that gets a spirited performance, but it still sounds thin and emaciated because the single is the way that song is supposed to sound, period. By contrast, their rendition of "Get Together," complete with lyrical and soaring harmonies, is a masterpiece of a kind -- or it would be if it were a prelude to a studio recording where the balances could be ...
| | Benny Martin Big Tiger Roars Again, Vol. 2 CD (2001)
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Liner Note Authors: Hugh Moore; John Hartford.
Recording information: Treasure Isle, Nashville, TN.
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| | Lonesome Pine Fiddlers Windy Mountain CD (1992) (Import) Germany
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Windy Mountain contains all of the material the Lonesome Pine Fiddlers recorded for Cozy and RCA Records during the early '50s. Though the 26-track collection is exhaustive, it is also exhausting; no matter how good these tracks are as individual ...
| | Wildstyle Wild Style CD (2005) (Import) Original Soundtrack; United Kingdom
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$16.39
| | Blackstone Singers Back In The Day CD (2004)
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$14.05
| | Carl Smith Don't Just Stand There: 20 Greatest Hits CD (2005)
Galveston music CDs
$12.79
| | St Paul's Cathedral Choir Away In A Manger CD (2006) (Import)
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$5.69
| | Bishop Paul S Morton Your Tears CD (2007)
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