Just read we lost Glenn Campbell.

http://www.foxnews.com/enterta...bell-dead-at-81.html

One of my favorite performances

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUBhE00h9U0

There was a TV special on Alzheimer' disease which "starred' him and described his experiences and the experiences of those around him.
He was a whole lot more than "just" a country and western singer.
RIP.
Peter.

Thank you for passing that information along.

He was a really special person.

I enjoyed his "Goodtime Hour"after he took the slot from the Smothers Brothers.We had great variety shows back then. RIP Glen

Story behind "Wichita Lineman":

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-40861326

Rest In Peace.

I enjoyed his music.

Jimmy Webb had this to say about his old friend last night:

Well, that moment has come that we have known was an inevitable certainty and yet stings like a sudden catastrophe. Let the world note that a great American influence on pop music, the American Beatle, the secret link between so many artists and records that we can only marvel, has passed and cannot be replaced. He was bountiful. His was a world of gifts freely exchanged: Roger Miller stories, songs from the best writers, an old Merle Haggard record or a pocket knife.

He gave me a great wide lens through which to look at music. The cult of The Players? He was at the very center. He loved the Beach Boys and in subtle ways helped mold their sound. He loved Don and Phil (Everly), Bill Medley and Bobby Hatfield, Flatt and Scruggs. This was the one great lesson that I learned from him as a kid: Musically speaking nothing is out of bounds. Of course, he lavished affection and gifts on his kids, family and friends. His love was a deep mercurial thing and once committed he was a tenacious friend as so many in Nashville and Phoenix, L.A. and New York, compadres all over the world would testify. One of his favorite songs was “Try A Little Kindness” in which he sings “shine your light on everyone you see.” My God. Did he do that or what? Just thinking back I believe suddenly that the “raison d’etre” for every Glen Campbell show was to bring every suffering soul within the sound of his voice up a peg or two. Leave ’em laughin’. Leave them feeling just a little tad better about themselves, even though he might have to make them cry a couple of times to get ’em there. What a majestically graceful and kind, top rate performer was Glen on his worst night!

When it came to friendship Glen was the real deal. He spoke my name from ten thousand stages. He was my big brother, my protector, my co-culprit, my John crying in the wilderness. Nobody liked a Jimmy Webb song as much as Glen! And yet he was generous with other writers: Larry Weiss, Allen Toussaint, John Hartford. You have to look hard for a bad song on a Glen Campbell album. He was giving people their money’s worth before it became fashionable.

I am full of grief. I am writing because I think you deserve some sort of message from me but I am too upset to write very well or at any great length. It’s like waking up in the morning in some Kafkaesque novella and finding that half of you is missing. Laura and I would call upon you to rest your sympathy with Kim Campbell and her children Cal, Shannon and Ashley; his older children Debby, Kelli, Travis, Kane, and Dillon; grandchildren, great- and great-great-grandchildren. Perhaps you could throw in a prayer for the Webb kids, Chris, Justin, Jamie, Corey, Charles and Camila who looked upon him as a kind of wondrous uncle who was a celebrated star and funnier than old dad.

This I can promise. While I can play a piano he will never be forgotten. And after that someone else will revel in his vast library of recordings and pass them on to how many future generations? Possibly to all of them.

Jimmy

Glenn wasn't just a great singer, he was a decent fellow. He'll be missed.

From the time he got the diagnosis until today he showed us how to man-up and say, "goodbye". One last album, one last tour. He was a brave man to the end.

Yep,I remember when he came through Austin to do his "Farewell Tour". He knew he had that disease;Got help anyone with that one.Killing ones bodies is one thing;killing ones memories prior to death is another.It not only kills the victim but the entire family. I wish peace upon his family.

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Originally posted by Kensco:
From the time he got the diagnosis until today he showed us how to man-up and say, "goodbye". One last album, one last tour. He was a brave man to the end.

+10

I'd like to think I could handle such news with grace, but know that ain't the way it would go. Terrrible for him and his family, Good show the last few years. Hats Off.

Amazing how the brain works.....despite the crippling dementia the one part of his that remained intact was when he picked up his guitar and started singing.

RIP Glen....love your music.

This is a really sweet remembrance of Glen Campbell by his improbably close friend, Vincent Furnier, better known as Alice Cooper. Gave me respect I never had for the latter performer, as well as still more for the former.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6q2hsdXenQ