Recommend more songs like "Wichita Lineman" please.

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That and "Sea Changes" are all I've been listening to lately.

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 19 September 2002 17:47 (twenty-two years ago) link

New droopy strings + dusky guitars answers here please.

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 19 September 2002 17:47 (twenty-two years ago) link

When I Was a Caveman - Chris Smither

... or maybe I'm thinking of "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" .. I always got those two songs (Wichita) confused...

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 19 September 2002 18:19 (twenty-two years ago) link

Campbell's also got the lilting "Dreams of the Everyday Housewife"... There's a Dolly Parton song about her love coming down from Dover, and then she has a stillborn baby... the baby seems to know the guy is never coming down, and decides to be born dead rather than live without a father... anybody know this song?

If you like Glen Cambell's lounge & western, check out Kenny Roger's old band First Edition, with the song "Ruby"... such a great tune.

― andy, Thursday, 19 September 2002 18:26 (twenty-two years ago) link

Glen and Jimmy's magnificent "Where's The Playground Susie?" is also in this bag - as is 'MacArthur Park' I suppose - not to mention a lot of Scott Walker...

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Thursday, 19 September 2002 18:35 (twenty-two years ago) link

"Echo Park"-Keith Barbour, "No Blood in Bone"-the Poppy Family, "Chastity's Song"-Cher, "Echoes"-Gene Clark.

― Arthur (Arthur), Thursday, 19 September 2002 19:21 (twenty-two years ago) link

Check out some Tim Hardin, too.

― hstencil, Thursday, 19 September 2002 19:34 (twenty-two years ago) link

waylon jenning's "honky tonk heroes"

― jjreece, Thursday, 19 September 2002 19:59 (twenty-two years ago) link

Dolly's song is "Down From Dover" from Little Sparrow. Well worth picking up, better than her current release.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 19 September 2002 20:08 (twenty-two years ago) link

it's times like this when i *really* miss audiogalaxy.

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 19 September 2002 20:16 (twenty-two years ago) link

"Script for a Jester's Tear" by Marillion. No seriously.

"Walking in the Rain" by Flash & the Pan

"Cattle & Cane" by the Go-Betweens.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 September 2002 21:14 (twenty-two years ago) link

Mark P - I think what you want is some kind of Jimmy Webb compi. that would give you all his top tunes. You know, Wichita Linesman, by the time I get to Phoenix, Galveston, and Macarthur Park. and many more.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 19 September 2002 21:16 (twenty-two years ago) link

I have fantastic fantastic comp on Débutante records from 97/98 which has all these and more, is called And Someone Left The Cake Out In The Rain. Not sure how easily obtainable it is, but you should be able to find it somewhere on interweb.

― alexfack, Thursday, 19 September 2002 21:46 (twenty-two years ago) link

"Wichita Linesman"? I knew it! It was a rugby song all this time...

But seriously, folks: Try Lee Hazlewood, you'll never look back. And Van Dyke Parks, oh yeah.

― Charlie (Charlie), Thursday, 19 September 2002 21:49 (twenty-two years ago) link

Ever hear These Animal Men's cover of "Wichita Lineman"? It's brilliant.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 September 2002 22:09 (twenty-two years ago) link

get some lee hazlewood definitely. I can wholeheartedly recommend the track borrowed tune by neil young for instant heartbreak. or martha by tom waits

― simon 803 (simon 803), Thursday, 19 September 2002 23:53 (twenty-two years ago) link

(kinda off-topic) Has anyone heard Astralwerks' Lee Hazlewood tribute album? More details here. Interesting listen.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 20 September 2002 00:04 (twenty-two years ago) link

quite like scott walker's "we had it all" as well.

― jjreece, Friday, 20 September 2002 13:48 (twenty-two years ago) link

From around the same time, these hit singles all had a similar sound, plus gobs of melodrama:
"Morning Girl" by Neon Philharmonic
"The Worst That Could Happen" by Brooklyn Bridge
"Woman Woman" by the Union Gap

― Curt (cgould), Friday, 20 September 2002 13:59 (twenty-two years ago) link

Witchita Lineman is my favorite song of all time. One time while I was in a pub in London I programed it into a jukebox 6 times in a row. Finley Quay was there and not a single person noticed the repetition or was thankful for it. Bastards!

Galveston is great. I collect versions of Witchita Lineman. Jim Nabors "Gomer Pyle" version is up there.

Although cheesier, Gordon Lightfoot's "If you Could Read My Mind" is similiar to WL.

― Carey, Friday, 20 September 2002 14:59 (twenty-two years ago) link

You have to get The Fifth Dimension's _The Magic Garden_ - it's a Jimmy Webb concept album about a poor hippie guy who has an ill-fated relationship with the daughter of a wealthy man. It's one of my favorite albums, and has a number of 'show-stoppers' in the 'Wichita Lineman' vein.

Oh, and 'Galveston' is great, too, and very much in the vein of 'Lineman'.

― Kerry (dymaxia), Friday, 20 September 2002 15:15 (twenty-two years ago) link

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