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Post by rick on Oct 11, 2012 12:59:52 GMT -5
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Post by erik on Oct 11, 2012 17:33:31 GMT -5
I may be in the minority opinion here (or maybe not), but to me Glen Campbell has always been one of the more underrated people in the music business simply because he is though of by most critics as a middle of the road artist, even though his career includes being part of The Wrecking Crew, and even serving a short time in the Beach Boys in 1964-65.
And when it comes to songwriting, I think the same can be said for Jimmy too. Both Glen and Linda, and practically everybody else with an ear for great songs, have covered his material--and yet, the man still doesn't seem to get the respect he deserves from those snooty, stuck-up critics who think that the only great songwriting comes from Lennon, McCartney, and Dylan (even though a lot does).
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Post by the Scribe on Oct 11, 2012 17:43:27 GMT -5
Like everyone else they will stand taller in death on top of the ashes of long forgotten music critics.
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Post by sliderocker on Oct 13, 2012 15:12:42 GMT -5
I may be in the minority opinion here (or maybe not), but to me Glen Campbell has always been one of the more underrated people in the music business simply because he is though of by most critics as a middle of the road artist, even though his career includes being part of The Wrecking Crew, and even serving a short time in the Beach Boys in 1964-65.
I think it's very ironic that Campbell has been very underrated as a singer, mainly because his own music was very middle of the road and a cross of country and pop. As a guitarist with the Wrecking Crew, he was a heavyweight. I think he claimed at one time that he played on more than 800 songs in the 60s that were Top 40 hits, with many of those songs in the Top 20, Top 10 or even Top 5. That was an astounding number and quite likely it could've been a conservative estimate. His last album - and what may be his last album ever - "Ghost On the Canvas" - demonstrates that despite his battle with Alzheimers, his voice is as strong as it ever was. The closing song "There's No Me...Without You" sounds like it could've come from the pen of John Lennon but it was written by Campbell and his producer. It's a shame radio ignored the song and the rest of the album but that's so typical of radio today.
And when it comes to songwriting, I think the same can be said for Jimmy too. Both Glen and Linda, and practically everybody else with an ear for great songs, have covered his material--and yet, the man still doesn't seem to get the respect he deserves from those snooty, stuck-up critics who think that the only great songwriting comes from Lennon, McCartney, and Dylan (even though a lot does).
With Webb, I think part of the problem with the music critics is that with certain song exceptions, there is a preference for what he wrote in the 60s over everything else he has written since. I think critics were okay with certain later songs like "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress" but frowned upon 60s songs like "Up, Up and Away" or "MacArthur's Park." I tend to think Webb's 60s songwriting efforts were his best as far as his songwriting and song placement goes. Everyone wanted his songs. I think he wasn't as successful when it came to song placement in the 70s and 80s and later on but those songs and the artists who did them were no less interesting than those who covered his songs in the 60s.
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