Glen Campbell & Leon Russell - In Session (CHCH-TV Studios, Hamilton, Canada, 11-18-1983)

Back in 2024, I posted an album featuring an hour-long musical collaboration between Glen Campbell and Jimmy Webb in 1988. It was from a Canadian TV show called "In Session." I don't know much about this show. But I found another episode that I thought was worthy of posting. Again, it's an hour long, and features Glen Campbell, but this time he collaborated with Leon Russell. And I don't know how long the show ran, but it's from five years earlier, 1983.

If anyone knows of (and has) more worthy episodes from this show, let me know and I'll post those too. What I really like about the two episodes that I found is they are true musical collaborations, instead of just taking turns playing songs. Campbell pretty much played guitar on all the songs, and Russell pretty much played keyboards on every song, and they often sang together. They also did some songs that I would guess they rarely or never performed in the own concerts, but they performed them here because they were songs that both of them knew, usually from big influences like Elvis Presley.

By the way, note that I just updated the cover of the Campbell and Webb episode. When I was putting this album together, I looked at that one and realized I'd failed to include some basic information on the cover. Thus the update. Here's the link, if you want to get the fixed version:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2024/10/glen-campbell-jimmy-webb-in-session.html

The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent.

This album is 45 minutes long. 

01 I Saw the Light (Glen Campbell & Leon Russell)
02 talk (Glen Campbell & Leon Russell)
03 Gentle on My Mind (Glen Campbell & Leon Russell)
04 talk (Glen Campbell & Leon Russell)
05 Heartbreak Hotel (Glen Campbell & Leon Russell)
06 talk (Glen Campbell & Leon Russell)
07 They Still Dance to Waltzes in England (Glen Campbell & Leon Russell)
08 Rollin' in My Sweet Baby's Arms (Glen Campbell & Leon Russell)
09 talk (Glen Campbell & Leon Russell)
10 Jambalaya [On the Bayou] (Glen Campbell & Leon Russell)
11 A Song for You (Glen Campbell & Leon Russell)
12 talk (Glen Campbell & Leon Russell)
13 Southern Nights [Edit] (Glen Campbell & Leon Russell)
14 talk (Glen Campbell & Leon Russell)
15 You've Lost that Lovin' Feelin' (Glen Campbell & Leon Russell)
16 I Don't Mind (Glen Campbell & Leon Russell)
17 talk (Glen Campbell & Leon Russell)
18 Crying (Glen Campbell & Leon Russell)
19 talk (Glen Campbell & Leon Russell)
20 You Don't Know Me (Glen Campbell & Leon Russell)
21 talk (Glen Campbell & Leon Russell)
22 I Don't Care What Mama Don't Allow (Glen Campbell & Leon Russell)
23 Lady Blue (Glen Campbell & Leon Russell)
24 talk (Glen Campbell & Leon Russell)
25 I Believe to My Soul (Glen Campbell & Leon Russell)
26 talk (Glen Campbell & Leon Russell)
27 Rhinestone Cowboy (Glen Campbell & Leon Russell)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/J7kWCJ6A

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/ZjShhBn2RFjRyAM/file

The cover photo is a screenshot I took from a video of this exact concert. 

Various Artists - Fifty Years of Country Music, Grand Ole Opry, Nashville, TN, 1-22-1978

Every now and then, I randomly stumble across some really interesting concerts on YouTube. (If you do as well, please let me know.) It seems there are many "various artists" concerts like this, often tributes, that one can find on video sometimes but have never been converted to an audio bootleg. I've seen a bunch of country-themed ones, such as annual awards ceremonies, that are just okay. But this one from 1978 stands out as exceptional. It was a three-hour TV special celebrating the last 50 years of country music. Just look at the names of all the stars in the song list and hopefully you'll see why I thought this was worth my time to convert this and post it here.

I'm not quite sure why the producers considered 1978 the 50th anniversary of country music. It was never explained in the banter of the show. I looked it up, and the first country records were recorded in 1922 and 1923. But a pivotal moment was the "Bristol sessions" in 1927, when both future country music legends Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family were recorded for the first time. That's probably what they were referring to here, since the special contained mini-tributes to country legends Jimmie Rodgers, the Carter Family, Bob Wills, and Hank Williams, so obviously they were thinking of Rodgers and the Carter Family specifically.

As I mentioned above, this TV special was three hours long, but if you remove the time spent on commercials, that leaves you with two and a half hours. That was divided into third. Glen Campbell hosted the first third, Dolly Parton hosted the middle third, and Roy Clark hosted the last third. So the three of them prominently feature in this, not just talking but singing lots of songs. At the end, all three of them came together to sing a final Hank Williams medley.

There are a couple of frustrations to watch out for. One is that to cram in as many songs as possible in the limited time allotted on TV, frequently shortened versions of songs were performed, often just a minute or two. Another is that although Gene Autry was still alive (he lived until 1998), a recording of him in his prime was used instead of a live recording. Normally, I edit out that kind of thing, but I kept it in here since it was short and I wanted to keep the banter talking about him.

Generally speaking, the recording I found of this on YouTube was complete and had pretty good sound quality. However, there were some exceptions. One problem was that the song "Wichita Lineman" by Glen Campbell got abruptly cut off after about a minute. I found another live recording of Campbell singing that song from the 1970s and I used that to patch in the missing portion. That's why that song has "[Edit]" in its title. Also, most of "One Piece at a Time" by Johnny Cash was missing. Luckily, I found another YouTube video of that song from this exact concert, so I was able to fill that in. I ended up splicing the two versions together because the other version was missing some of the intro. 

There were some other problems here and there. For instance, sometimes the overall volume would fluctuate. So I had to make fixes for that. Also, there usually were "coming up next" type teasers before commercial breaks. I got rid of all of those. And when there were commercial breaks, that often meant abrupt cuts. I carefully edited each of those, usually patching in some more applause to smooth over where there was a start and stop gap due to commercials.

On the plus side, in my opinion country music was a lot better back in the 1970s than it is today, with many legends still alive and even in their primes. Remarkably, this really is a pretty good history of fifty years of country music. Also, it's interesting for the duets and combinations, such as Glen Campbell singing a song with Ray Charles and Johnny Cash singing a song with Roy Clark. This special remains unreleased on video and audio, but it shouldn't be forgotten. 

This album is two hours and 28 minutes long.

01 Stars [Edit] (Glen Campbell)
02 Rhinestone Cowboy (Glen Campbell)
03 emcee (Introduction)
04 talk (Glen Campbell)
05 Wabash Cannonball (Roy Acuff & His Smoky Mountain Boys)
06 talk (Glen Campbell)
07 I'll Get Over You (Crystal Gayle)
08 talk (Glen Campbell)
09 That Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine (Gene Autry)
10 talk (Glen Campbell)
11 Back in the Saddle Again (Glen Campbell)
12 Southern Nights (Glen Campbell)
13 talk (Glen Campbell)
14 Louisiana Man (Doug Kershaw)
15 talk (Glen Campbell)
16 I'll Go to My Grave Loving You (Statler Brothers)
17 You and Me (Tammy Wynette)
18 Love Put a Song in My Heart (Johnny Rodriguez)
19 talk (Glen Campbell)
20 Take These Chains from My Heart (Ray Charles)
21 talk (Ray Charles & Glen Campbell)
22 Bye Bye Love (Glen Campbell & Ray Charles)
23 talk (Glen Campbell)
24 Gentle on My Mind (Glen Campbell)
25 Honey Come Back (Glen Campbell)
26 By the Time I Get to Phoenix - Wichita Lineman [Edit] (Glen Campbell)
27 Galveston - Country Boy [You've Got Your Feet in L.A.] (Glen Campbell)
28 talk (emcee)
29 Here You Come Again (Dolly Parton)
30 talk (Dolly Parton)
31 Blue Moon of Kentucky (Bill Monroe & the Blue Grass Boys)
32 talk (Dolly Parton)
33 Muleskinner Blues (Dolly Parton & Bill Monroe & the Blue Grass Boys)
34 talk (Dolly Parton)
35 Our Love Is Home Grown (Earl Scruggs)
36 talk (Dolly Parton)
37 Walking After Midnight (Loretta Lynn)
38 Sweet Dreams (Loretta Lynn)
39 Back in Baby's Arms - Crazy (Loretta Lynn)
40 talk (Dolly Parton)
41 I Just Wish You Were Someone I Love (Larry Gatlin & the Gatlin Brothers)
42 The Cowgirl and the Dandy (Dolly Parton)
43 talk (Dolly Parton)
44 Keep on the Sunny Side - Wildwood Flower (Carter Family)
45 Will the Circle Be Unbroken (Carter Family)
46 Hello Stranger (Carter Family)
47 talk (Dolly Parton)
48 If You're Ever in Nashville (Carlene Carter)
49 talk (Dolly Parton)
50 talk (Merle Haggard & the Texas Playboys)
51 Ida Red (Merle Haggard & the Texas Playboys)
52 talk (Merle Haggard & the Texas Playboys)
53 Faded Love (Merle Haggard & the Texas Playboys)
54 Roly Poly (Merle Haggard & the Texas Playboys)
55 San Antonio Rose (Merle Haggard & the Texas Playboys)
56 talk (Dolly Parton)
57 The Seeker - All I Can Do (Dolly Parton)
58 Jolene (Dolly Parton)
59 Two Doors Down (Dolly Parton)
60 I Will Always Love You (Dolly Parton)
61 talk (emcee)
62 Rocky Top (Roy Clark)
63 talk (Roy Clark)
64 In the Jailhouse Now - Jimmie Rodgers' Last Blue Yodel [Women Make a Fool Out of Me] (Ernest Tubb & the Texas Troubadours)
65 Waiting for a Train (Ernest Tubb & the Texas Troubadours)
66 talk (Roy Clark)
67 talk (Roy Clark & Minnie Pearl)
68 It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels (Kitty Wells)
69 You're the One (Oak Ridge Boys)
70 talk (Roy Clark & Mel Tillis)
71 Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town (Mel Tillis)
72 talk (Roy Clark & Charlie Rich)
73 Behind Closed Doors (Charlie Rich)
74 talk (Roy Clark & Johnny Cash)
75 Folsom Prison Blues (Johnny Cash)
76 One Piece at a Time [Edit] (Johnny Cash)
77 Orange Blossom Special (Johnny Cash & Roy Clark)
78 Ghost Riders in the Sky [Instrumental Version] (Roy Clark)
79 talk (Roy Clark)
80 Instrumental (Chet Atkins)
81 talk (Roy Clark)
82 Instrumental (Stoney Mountain Cloggers)
83 Hey Good Lookin' (Roy Clark, Dolly Parton & Glen Campbell)
84 Your Cheating Heart (Roy Clark, Dolly Parton & Glen Campbell)
85 Cold, Cold Heart (Roy Clark, Dolly Parton & Glen Campbell)
86 I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry (Roy Clark, Dolly Parton & Glen Campbell)
87 I Can't Help It [If I'm Still in Love with You] - You Win Again (Roy Clark, Dolly Parton & Glen Campbell)
88 I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry - I Saw the Light (Roy Clark, Dolly Parton & Glen Campbell)
89 Jambalaya [On the Bayou] (Roy Clark, Dolly Parton & Glen Campbell)
90 talk (Roy Clark)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/VhNfssNn

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/LzjSJer5qXloFoA/file

The cover image is from this exact concert. I made it from screenshots taken from the last medley in the concert, when Roy Clark, Dolly Parton and Glen Campbell were singing together. However, the YouTube video I was using was very low-res. So I had to resort to taking close up screenshots of each of their heads, plus one of all three of them together, and then putting it together in Photoshop. I used the Krea AI program to help clean it up. That's a big portrait of Hank Williams on the wall in the background.

The Beach Boys and Friends - 25 Years Together, Waikiki Shell, Honolulu, HI, 12-12-1986

Here's a really interesting Beach Boys concert, featuring lots of special guest stars. It was a TV special filmed in Waikiki Beach in Hawaii to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the formation of the band, back in 1961. The Beach Boys stayed on stage the entire time. Often they performed their own songs, but sometimes they were the backing band for: Ray Charles, Gloria Loring, Glen Campbell, the Fabulous Thunderbirds, the Everly Brothers, Jeffrey Osborne, Belinda Carlisle, and Three Dog Night. That's a pretty impressive list.

I happened to stumble across a video of this concert on YouTube. I converted that to an audio file and cut it into mp3s. While doing so, I deliberately cut out some things. For instance, there were some long talking segments by actor Patrick Duffy in which he talked extensively about the history of the Beach Boys. It wasn't terrible, but it didn't have relistening value, so I axed it. I also cut out a few other little things, like some really bad jokes or cheesy comments made by the Beach Boys between songs. 

I gotta say, I put a lot of effort into making this a better listen. One big problem was there was a constant noise coming from the crowd all the time, through every song. Probably, microphones were stuck in the crowd to capture that audience noise in order to supposedly increase the excitement level. Or some of it could have been added in later. That has happened even to officially released live albums occasionally. Regardless, I used the MVSEP to get rid of most of the crowd noise, except for the bits you'd expect at the starts and ends of the songs. The sonic difference was dramatic, like suddenly being able to hear after taking ear muffs off. 

The last two songs have "[Edit]" in their titles due to extra editing on them. For "The Spirit of Rock and Roll," an announcer came on near the end of the song and talked over it. Luckily, that didn't last too long, and I was able to patch it by bringing in a section from elsewhere in the song. "Good Vibrations" was much more difficult. For some stupid reason, the song was repeatedly interrupted by brief comments made by random people, saying things like "Happy anniversary to the Beach Boys!" These comments clearly were filmed on the beach at a different time and spliced into the footage. This happened about ten times, through random points in the song. Worse, the volume of the song itself was briefly turned way down, ruining the rhythm. I found a different live version of the song from the 1980s and patched in bits of that, or patched in sections from elsewhere in the same version. It was a real pain in the ass to fix, but all those dumb comments are gone now.

I think this is a really interesting concert, a lot better than what I'd expected from the Beach Boys at this point in their career. The main negative is that the band tried to cram in too many songs for the limited time they had for their TV special. So many of the songs are short versions, sometimes in medleys. There's even a couple that are a minute or less. But there are a lot of plus sides. One nice thing is that Brian Wilson usually didn't tour with the band, but he was here and involved. In fact, he looked as healthy and fit as he ever did, after some rough years in the late 1970s and early 1980s. 

And while the Beach Boys mostly played their expected classics, there was a couple of really nice surprises. One was a version of "Heaven" near the end of the concert. This was released on a Carl Wilson solo album and never officially done by the Beach Boys. The other one that is even more interesting is the closing song, "The Spirit of Rock and Roll." At the time, Brian Wilson was working on his first solo album. But there were many false starts before the album, simply called "Brian Wilson," was released in 1988. At one point, there was nearly enough material for an album to be released, only for it to be scrapped and most of the songs discarded. Some of this later became a popular bootleg called "Sweet Insanity." "The Spirit of Rock and Roll" was one of those discarded songs. So it's interesting that it was not only chosen for inclusion in this special, but it was the finale. This appears to be the ONLY time the song was ever performed by the Beach Boys, as opposed to Brian Wilson solo.

But maybe the most interesting thing of all were the special guests, the vast majority of whom have stood the test of time. Gloria Loring is better known as an actress than a singer, but she had a good voice and had a big hit in 1986 with "Friends and Lovers," which she sang here. Other than that though, the guests mostly sang Beach Boys songs, while being backed by the actual Beach Boys on backing vocals and instruments. For instance, not only did the back up Ray Charles singing and playing keyboards on "Sail On, Sailor," but Charles was the one playing the prominent keyboard part in the "Good Vibrations" finale. I particularly liked hearing Belinda Carlisle singing a Beach Boys song as well as a soul classic.

Everything here is unreleased, I believe. The sound quality is very good, though not great. 

This album is an hour and ten minutes long. 

01 talk (Beach Boys)
02 Help Me, Rhonda (Beach Boys)
03 Fun, Fun, Fun (Beach Boys)
04 California Girls (Beach Boys)
05 California Dreamin' (Beach Boys)
06 talk (Beach Boys)
07 Sail On, Sailor (Beach Boys & Ray Charles)
08 Sloop John B (Beach Boys)
09 Do It Again (Beach Boys)
10 talk (Beach Boys)
11 Friends and Lovers (Beach Boys & Gloria Loring)
12 I Can Hear Music (Beach Boys & Gloria Loring)
13 talk (Beach Boys & Glen Campbell)
14 In Cars (Beach Boys & Glen Campbell)
15 talk (Beach Boys & Glen Campbell)
16 Little Deuce Coupe (Beach Boys & Glen Campbell)
17 The Little Old Lady from Pasadena (Beach Boys & Glen Campbell)
18 I Get Around (Beach Boys & Glen Campbell)
19 Barbara Ann (Beach Boys)
20 talk (Beach Boys & the Fabulous Thunderbirds)
21 Rock and Roll Music (Beach Boys & the Fabulous Thunderbirds)
22 Be True to Your School (Beach Boys)
23 Don't Worry Baby - Getcha Back (Beach Boys & the Everly Brothers)
24 Wake Up Little Susie (Beach Boys & the Everly Brothers)
25 Surfer Girl (Beach Boys)
26 Come Go with Me (Beach Boys)
27 talk (Beach Boys)
28 Disney Girls [1957] (Beach Boys)
29 God Only Knows (Beach Boys & Jeffrey Osborne)
30 talk (Beach Boys with Paul Shaffer)
31 Surfer Girl [Reprise] (Beach Boys with Paul Shaffer)
32 Surf City (Beach Boys with Paul Shaffer)
33 Surfin' U.S.A. (Beach Boys with Paul Shaffer)
34 Wouldn't It Be Nice (Beach Boys & Belinda Carlisle)
35 Band of Gold (Beach Boys & Belinda Carlisle)
36 talk (Beach Boys & Three Dog Night)
37 Darlin' (Beach Boys & Three Dog Night)
38 talk (Beach Boys)
39 Heaven (Beach Boys)
40 Good Vibrations [Edit] (Beach Boys & Everyone)
41 talk (Beach Boys)
42 The Spirit of Rock and Roll [Edit] (Beach Boys & Everyone)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/eYAr29uv

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/lny0w2Q0FB2gE8x/file

I had a hard time finding a good cover photo by taking a screenshot from a video. If I used a long distance shot showing many people, it was too low-res and blurry. I chose this one from the "Good Vibrations" finale. From right to left, that's Gloria Loring, unknown, Al Jardine, and Belinda Carlile. I used Krea AI to boost the image quality.

Various Artists - A Country Music Celebration, Grand Ole Opry House, Nashville, TN, 1-13-1993

There are so many interesting tribute concerts that have taken place over the years but then were largely forgotten because they didn't get an official release. Here's another one I happened to find recently. 

There have been many country music themed TV specials over the years. I'm not familiar with most of them. But in terms of sheer star power, I couldn't overlook this one. The vast majority of the biggest names in country music at the time performed, back before country music went downhill with "bro country," rap, Autotune, and so forth. I don't know how often the Country Music Association has put on shows like this. I did find their 25th anniversary concert on YouTube, but it's less than an hour long and not as impressive a line-up.

This concert crammed in a surprising number of songs in the amount of time it had. That's because it often only allowed for truncated versions of songs, meaning two minutes or less. In the worst case, Glen Campbell's version of "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" was under a minute long. But the plus side is the show kept moving, so if there's a song you don't like, it wasn't long until the next one started.

I pretty much kept the show intact, until near the end. Very late in the show, around track 45, there was an extended tribute to Dolly Parton. I cut the vast majority of it out, because it was a video presentation, with short snippets of the recorded versions of her most famous songs. I cut all that because it was meant to be seen more than heard, with no live musical performances in it. However, immediately following that was a speech by Parton, and I kept all that.

The sound quality is excellent, even though this all remains unreleased. The only problem I had was with the last song, "I Will Always Love You" by Dolly Parton (with Kenny Rogers assisting). Clearly, the time allotted for the TV show came to an end, because the song was cut short, at only about a minute long, and then faded out. But at least it seems the performers knew the version was going to be a short one, because they only sang the chorus over and over. However, even that short version was marred by an announcer speaking over part of it to hype up the next shows coming up on that TV channel. I managed to cut that out by largely repeating one of the choruses. That's why that one song has "[Edit]" in its title. 

Oh, by the way, this website has a couple dozen nice photos from the event:

Nashville Then: A Country Music Celebration to honor CMA in 1993 

This album is an hour and 24 minutes long. 

01 talk (emcee)
02 This Nightlife (Clint Black with Ricky Skaggs, Glen Campbell & Mark O'Connor)
03 talk (Clint Black)
04 Road Scholar (Lee Roy Parnell & Delbert McClinton)
05 talk (Clint Black)
06 Here I Am (Lyle Lovett)
07 talk (Clint Black)
08 Heartland (Bob Dylan & Willie Nelson)
09 One More Last Chance (Vince Gill)
10 talk (Vince Gill & Travis Tritt)
11 What Would Elvis Do (Pam Tillis)
12 Wear My Ring Around Your Neck (Rodney Crowell)
13 T-R-O-U-B-L-E (Travis Tritt)
14 Devil in Disguise (Trisha Yearwood)
15 That's All Right, Mama (Vince Gill)
16 talk (Reba McEntire)
17 A Little Bit of Love (Wynonna Judd)
18 talk (Reba McEntire)
19 Goodbye Again (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
20 talk (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
21 Take It Back (Reba McEntire)
22 talk (Randy Owen)
23 Old Time Rock and Roll (Little Texas)
24 talk (Randy Owen)
25 It's a Heartache (Lorrie Morgan)
26 talk (Randy Owen)
27 Hard Working Man (Brooks & Dunn)
28 Drive South (Suzy Bogguss)
29 I'm in a Hurry (Alabama)
30 talk (Vince Gill)
31 The Heart Won't Lie (Reba McEntire & Vince Gill)
32 The Whiskey Ain't Working Anymore (Travis Tritt & Marty Stuart)
33 Love Certified (Ronnie Milsap & Patti LaBelle)
34 Silver Bells [Instrumental] (Charlie Daniels, Mark O'Connor & Sam Bush)
35 talk (Charlie Daniels & Emmylou Harris)
36 Too Far Gone (Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell, Vince Gill & Ricky Skaggs)
37 Two More Bottles of Wine (Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell, Vince Gill & Ricky Skaggs)
38 I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry (Glen Campbell)
39 talk (Glen Campbell)
40 The Ride (John Anderson)
41 Talking to Hank (Mark Chesnutt & Joe Diffie)
42 talk (Glen Campbell)
43 Midnight in Montgomery (Alan Jackson)
44 You Decorated My Life (Kenny Rogers)
45 talk (Kenny Rogers)
46 talk (Dolly Parton)
47 Full Circle (Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Willie Nelson, Kenny Rogers & Glen Campbell)
48 talk (Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton)
49 I Will Always Love You [Edit] (Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/Eosyj9Qd

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/2l2znKTYkfdFKDm/file 

The cover photo is from the finale of this exact concert. From left to right: Emmylou Harris, Kenny Rogers, Dolly Parton, and Willie Nelson.

Covered: Jimmy Webb: Volume 1, 1966-1971

In the past few days, I've been really getting into my Covered series highlighting the best songs of the best songwriters. I already had a bunch of albums basically reading for posting, but I keep thinking or coming across songwriters that would be fitting for the series. Keep in mind that I'm generally focusing on those who were songwriters for others instead of those who became famous stars performing their own music, although there will be some of the latter when their songs were widely covered. (For instance, one can find a million covers of Bob Dylan songs, but very few of Pink Floyd songs.)

One person who is a must for this series is Jimmy Webb. He's an usual case of someone who became a household name for being a songwriter. He did have his own music career, releasing many studio albums, but it never achieved much success, at least not in comparison to the songs he wrote that were hits for others. In my opinion, some of the songs he wrote are not just classics, but all-time classics. For instance, if I had a Top 50 Greatest Songs list, I think both "Wichita Lineman" and "Galveston" would be on it.

Webb has great success right from the start. I read an account from songwriter P. F. Sloan (who will be featured in this series later), who was also a producer in the mid-1960s. He met Webb around 1965, when Webb was under 18 and trying to get anyone to record his songs. Webb played him "By the Time I Get to Phoenix," "Up, Up and Away," "Wichita Lineman," "MacArthur Park," and more. Sloan was floored. He told Webb that he'd played him about five future Number One songs, which pretty much proved to be true. That golden era when it seemed every song Webb was writing turned into a hit is the basis on this volume. (I'll be posting a second volume of the rest of his career.)

If you like intelligent yet very catchy pop songs, this album is a must have. Yeah, he gets dinged for some silly lyrics in "MacArthur Park" ("Someone left a cake out in the rain..."). But overall, he's a songwriter's songwriter. He's even written a popular book about the art of songwriting (which I have, and have been reading lately, by the way).

As I said in another post recently, I'm going to try to keep my Covered write-ups short so I'll post more music faster. So if you want to know more about Webb, here's his Wikipedia page:

Jimmy Webb - Wikipedia

This album is 50 minutes long.

01 By the Time I Get to Phoenix (Johnny Rivers)
02 Up, Up and Away (5th Dimension)
03 Love Years Coming (Strawberry Children)
04 Paper Cup (5th Dimension)
05 Wichita Lineman (Glen Campbell)
06 Do What You Gotta Do (Nina Simone)
07 MacArthur Park (Richard Harris)
08 The Magic Garden (Dusty Springfield)
09 Carpet Man (5th Dimension)
10 Worst that Could Happen (Brooklyn Bridge)
11 Galveston (Glen Campbell)
12 Where's the Playground, Susie (Glen Campbell)
13 Didn't We (Dionne Warwick)
14 Honey Come Back (Jr. Walker & the All Stars)
15 See You Then (Roberta Flack)

https://www.upload.ee/files/17271156/COVRDJIMMYWBB1966-1971Vlum1_atse.zip.html

alternate:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/GtYWDuwj

The cover photo of Webb is probably from 1968.

Glen Campbell & Jimmy Webb - In Session (CHCH-TV Studios, Hamilton, Canada, 12-1988)

Although I'm done with the "VH-1 Storytellers" series, here is something very similar in content and length. 

Jimmy Webb is a talented singer-songwriter who never had any hits of his own, but wrote many hit songs for others. In particular, Glen Campbell has covered many of his songs, and had big hits with some of them, such as the all-time classics "By the Time I Get to Phoenix," "Galveston," and "Wichita Lineman." In 1974, he even released an album consisting entirely of Jimmy Webb songs. In 1988, he released the album "Light Years," which included a couple more songs written by Webb. As part of the promotion for that album, Campbell and Webb appeared together on a Canadian radio show. Not only did they perform a bunch of Webb's songs together, they talked some about the songs as well. So that was more or less exactly like a Storytellers episode, except there was no studio audience and it took place about a decade earlier. The length of about 45 minutes was exactly the same for Storytellers episodes too.

It was rare for Campbell and Webb to perform together like this. So eventually, in 2012, an album of this radio show was released as an audio album, as well as a video. However, this album is very obscure. It took me months before I could even find a copy. So I decided to post it here to give it greater exposure.

Furthermore, I improved the album in two ways. Firstly, I added some songs that weren't on the official album. These come from the video of the same concert. In terms of music from that video, I didn't add much, just "Honey Come Back." It's really only a snippet that's less than a minute long, which probably explains why it didn't make the album. But I found several chunks of banter that were only on the video. One of these talked about the song "By the Time I Get to Phoenix," but then the song just barely started before it faded out. So I found a version of Campbell doing it in concert within a couple of years of this performance, and added it in.

The second big change I made is that the banter often was overdubbed over instrumental sections of the songs. Most of these were at the beginnings of songs, but occasionally, as in "MacArthur Park," they took place in the middle of the songs. I used the UVR5 audio editing program to get take these talking bits out of songs. But instead of trashing them, I generally put them as more banter before the songs.

I suspect there were more songs played, and especially more banter, but this is all I could find. Generally speaking, Campbell sang the lead vocals and played guitar while Webb played keyboards. On some songs, they were backed by a full band. On a couple, it was just Campbell and his acoustic guitar.

All in all, this is a really interesting album. Even if you're not a big fan of either Campbell or Webb as performers, you should hear this because virtually every song performed is a classic.

This album is 44 minutes long.

01 talk (Glen Campbell & Jimmy Webb)
02 By the Time I Get to Phoenix (Glen Campbell & Jimmy Webb)
03 talk (Glen Campbell & Jimmy Webb)
04 Light Years [Edit] (Glen Campbell & Jimmy Webb)
05 If These Walls Could Speak (Glen Campbell & Jimmy Webb)
06 talk (Glen Campbell & Jimmy Webb)
07 Galveston [Edit] (Glen Campbell & Jimmy Webb)
08 talk (Glen Campbell & Jimmy Webb)
09 Where's the Playground, Susie (Glen Campbell & Jimmy Webb)
10 talk (Glen Campbell & Jimmy Webb)
11 MacArthur Park [Edit] (Glen Campbell & Jimmy Webb)
12 talk (Glen Campbell & Jimmy Webb)
13 Wichita Lineman [Edit] (Glen Campbell & Jimmy Webb)
14 talk (Glen Campbell & Jimmy Webb)
15 The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress [Edit] (Glen Campbell & Jimmy Webb)
16 talk (Glen Campbell & Jimmy Webb)
17 Honey Come Back (Glen Campbell & Jimmy Webb)
18 talk (Glen Campbell & Jimmy Webb)
19 Sunshower (Glen Campbell & Jimmy Webb)
20 talk (Glen Campbell & Jimmy Webb)
21 Still Within the Sound of My Voice (Glen Campbell & Jimmy Webb)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/VV2CKjjw

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/rqGuv2VQYt27S3x/file

The cover of the official "In Session" album looks very amateurish, so I ignored that. I took the "In Session" graphic at the top from a YouTube video of this concert. However, that video was too low-res for good photos of the duo. Instead, I found this photo. I don't know when or where it's from exactly, but their ages seem to be in the right ballpark. (Webb is at the keyboards and Campbell is standing with the microphone.)