Wichita Lineman
The Nite-Liters
Instrumental Directions, 1972
Song writer Jimmy Webb makes his second appearance on my blog. I didn’t know this song before hearing it on this record but apparently it was a big hit for (country-ish singer) Glen Campbell and was covered by tons of people. A quick google search shows that “Wichita Lineman” has it’s own wikipedia entry that lists 34 covers of the song (although it doesn’t list this one) and says that it’s in Rolling Stones Top 500 songs of all time.
For some reason it didn’t occur to me that this song would have lyrics – the horn melodies seem whole and complete without words. I think this song makes the case that the world needs more (non-honking) baritone saxophone (see 1:46 and 2:04/2:08).
P.S. – I am cooking up a podcast idea for music like this that doesn’t fit well into the DJ-set format (and I have much more music like this than I do “dj-friendly” music so it should be a nice outlet).
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