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Why is the Wade Hayes song image and template here instead of Glen Campbell's? Did Glen Campbell shoot Jimbo's Dad? WTF? Basilwhite ( talk) 15:57, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
Optiganally Yours covered "Witchita Lineman" on their album Spotlight On. It's totally totally great.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000000SXZ/qid=1126698320/sr=2-2/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_2/104-0725548-1639144?v=glance&s=music —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.101.69.90 ( talk • contribs) 11:46, 14 September 2005
The Telegraph music critics voted the Dennis Brown cover 38th out of the best cover versions ever recorded in 2004.
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This article would benefit from a list of the musicians who played on the original recording, plus other production details.-- Design 02:37, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
Support is needed for the claim that "Wichita" refers to either Wichita, Kansas or Wichita County, Kansas. Some online sources claim that it refers to Wichita Falls, Texas. John M Baker 00:51, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
One possibility. Since the inspiration for the song was a lineman in Northern Oklahoma, it could refer to the Wichita Mountains in Western Oklahoma (near Ft. Sill, Botendaddy is a Field Artillery Officer). The Wichita Mountains, particularly Mt. Scott are kind of a mystical place and were of spiritual importance to the local Indian tribes. By the way what a great tune. Even though I was big on hard rock as a kid, this one jumped right out of the radio. Botendaddy ( talk) 08:11, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
Most of this article, including the categories, seem to be about the song, but the succession box and chart table reference the album. Is there enough info about the album to warrant it's own page? Zephyrnthesky ( talk) 20:59, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
The Arrangement section says "In the first recording, by Glen Campbell, a notable feature of Al de Lory's orchestral arrangement is that the violins and a Gulbransen Synthesizer mimic the sounds that a lineman might hear when attaching a telephone earpiece to a long stretch of raw telephone or telegraph line". This suggests that the song is about a telegraph lineman. However the line in the song "searchin' in the sun for another overload" suggests the song is about a power line lineman. The song's references to "whine" in the "wires" still makes sense for power lines as anyone who has ever stood under high tension lines out in quiet countryside will have heard the noises they make. Somehow the idea of someone driving along the high tension liners seems more romantic to me than if the "lines" are merely telegraph lines. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.139.109.135 ( talk) 12:33, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
Looks like he didn't think very carefully about the difference, if he even recognised it. Still a great song though. Costesseyboy ( talk) 23:38, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
I removed the following.
An interesting fact related to the session players is that the famous low-register guitar lead was played by Campbell on a Danelectro Longhorn Baritone guitar belonging to bassist Carol Kaye. Some years later, the instrument was stolen from Kaye's automobile. An identical one can be seen in Campbell's hands in the video of the Stone Temple Pilots version of the song in which Campbell appears.
See Wikipedia:BURDEN, if anyone can cite verifiable sources for both the theft and for an identical guitar played by Campbell afterward, you might restore it, although in the absense of an accusation by Kaye and given that there is more than one of these guitars in the world, it seems like innuendo, not information. After all, if he played Kaye's on one of the most iconic of his songs, he could easily have taken a liking to it, and -- even if rare (I have no idea whether it is) -- Campbell would have the resources to find and buy one. -- TJC 11:21 August 25 2012 (UTC)
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Although Campbell did say (in 2011, in the BBC Radio 4 series Soul Music) that "Wichita Lineman" was the Jimmy Webb song that prompted him to cry and then drive home to Arkansas to see his parents, he also stated in another interview I read that "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" affected him in exactly the same way. I think Alzheimer's Disease, from which he was already suffering at the time of the BBC interview, caused him to confuse the two songs and so his anecdote applies to 'Phoenix', not 'Wichita'. (It certainly seems more likely, if you compare Jimmy Webb's two sets of lyrics: 'Phoenix' describes an impending road trip home.) Birdman euston ( talk) 05:22, 16 July 2022 (UTC)
Songwriter Jimmy Webb in his 2011 interview with Songfacts implies it was the former so I put that version ("talking to his girlfriend") in the article. Fourteen years earlier, however, in his revealing 1997 interview with the Dallas Observer [weblink https://www.dallasobserver.com/music/power-lines-6402472], he admits that his early songwriting hits were "personal messages" via the radio to his former lover who eventually married someone else - even saying there's a fine line between obsessive love and stalking. The eavesdropping interpretation has gained considerable currency, and is even treated as fact in the Financial Times' 2017 obituary of Glen Campbell: https://www.ft.com/content/fe268128-7df7-11e7-ab01-a13271d1ee9c So, I say the jury is out on this topic. If you have any other convincing evidence either way, please do have your say. Birdman euston ( talk) 20:51, 24 February 2024 (UTC)
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Why is the Wade Hayes song image and template here instead of Glen Campbell's? Did Glen Campbell shoot Jimbo's Dad? WTF? Basilwhite ( talk) 15:57, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
Optiganally Yours covered "Witchita Lineman" on their album Spotlight On. It's totally totally great.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000000SXZ/qid=1126698320/sr=2-2/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_2/104-0725548-1639144?v=glance&s=music —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.101.69.90 ( talk • contribs) 11:46, 14 September 2005
The Telegraph music critics voted the Dennis Brown cover 38th out of the best cover versions ever recorded in 2004.
[1] ```` —Preceding unsigned comment added by Marie dressler ( talk • contribs) 18:56, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
This article would benefit from a list of the musicians who played on the original recording, plus other production details.-- Design 02:37, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
Support is needed for the claim that "Wichita" refers to either Wichita, Kansas or Wichita County, Kansas. Some online sources claim that it refers to Wichita Falls, Texas. John M Baker 00:51, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
One possibility. Since the inspiration for the song was a lineman in Northern Oklahoma, it could refer to the Wichita Mountains in Western Oklahoma (near Ft. Sill, Botendaddy is a Field Artillery Officer). The Wichita Mountains, particularly Mt. Scott are kind of a mystical place and were of spiritual importance to the local Indian tribes. By the way what a great tune. Even though I was big on hard rock as a kid, this one jumped right out of the radio. Botendaddy ( talk) 08:11, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
Most of this article, including the categories, seem to be about the song, but the succession box and chart table reference the album. Is there enough info about the album to warrant it's own page? Zephyrnthesky ( talk) 20:59, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
The Arrangement section says "In the first recording, by Glen Campbell, a notable feature of Al de Lory's orchestral arrangement is that the violins and a Gulbransen Synthesizer mimic the sounds that a lineman might hear when attaching a telephone earpiece to a long stretch of raw telephone or telegraph line". This suggests that the song is about a telegraph lineman. However the line in the song "searchin' in the sun for another overload" suggests the song is about a power line lineman. The song's references to "whine" in the "wires" still makes sense for power lines as anyone who has ever stood under high tension lines out in quiet countryside will have heard the noises they make. Somehow the idea of someone driving along the high tension liners seems more romantic to me than if the "lines" are merely telegraph lines. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.139.109.135 ( talk) 12:33, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
Looks like he didn't think very carefully about the difference, if he even recognised it. Still a great song though. Costesseyboy ( talk) 23:38, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
I removed the following.
An interesting fact related to the session players is that the famous low-register guitar lead was played by Campbell on a Danelectro Longhorn Baritone guitar belonging to bassist Carol Kaye. Some years later, the instrument was stolen from Kaye's automobile. An identical one can be seen in Campbell's hands in the video of the Stone Temple Pilots version of the song in which Campbell appears.
See Wikipedia:BURDEN, if anyone can cite verifiable sources for both the theft and for an identical guitar played by Campbell afterward, you might restore it, although in the absense of an accusation by Kaye and given that there is more than one of these guitars in the world, it seems like innuendo, not information. After all, if he played Kaye's on one of the most iconic of his songs, he could easily have taken a liking to it, and -- even if rare (I have no idea whether it is) -- Campbell would have the resources to find and buy one. -- TJC 11:21 August 25 2012 (UTC)
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Although Campbell did say (in 2011, in the BBC Radio 4 series Soul Music) that "Wichita Lineman" was the Jimmy Webb song that prompted him to cry and then drive home to Arkansas to see his parents, he also stated in another interview I read that "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" affected him in exactly the same way. I think Alzheimer's Disease, from which he was already suffering at the time of the BBC interview, caused him to confuse the two songs and so his anecdote applies to 'Phoenix', not 'Wichita'. (It certainly seems more likely, if you compare Jimmy Webb's two sets of lyrics: 'Phoenix' describes an impending road trip home.) Birdman euston ( talk) 05:22, 16 July 2022 (UTC)
Songwriter Jimmy Webb in his 2011 interview with Songfacts implies it was the former so I put that version ("talking to his girlfriend") in the article. Fourteen years earlier, however, in his revealing 1997 interview with the Dallas Observer [weblink https://www.dallasobserver.com/music/power-lines-6402472], he admits that his early songwriting hits were "personal messages" via the radio to his former lover who eventually married someone else - even saying there's a fine line between obsessive love and stalking. The eavesdropping interpretation has gained considerable currency, and is even treated as fact in the Financial Times' 2017 obituary of Glen Campbell: https://www.ft.com/content/fe268128-7df7-11e7-ab01-a13271d1ee9c So, I say the jury is out on this topic. If you have any other convincing evidence either way, please do have your say. Birdman euston ( talk) 20:51, 24 February 2024 (UTC)