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Love O Fair
Posted 2021-05-30 1:48 AM (#555614)
Subject: Another One Gone...



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B.J. Thomas.
Another victory for cancer, and another sad day for music.
Somewhere in the "Ovation Players" thread is a pic of him bangin' on an O.
Who else here had a stack of his sheet music as a teen?





Edited by Love O Fair 2021-05-30 1:56 AM
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cholloway
Posted 2021-05-30 7:43 AM (#555615 - in reply to #555614)
Subject: Re: Another One Gone...


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Rest In Peace
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Mark in Boise
Posted 2021-05-30 10:48 AM (#555617 - in reply to #555614)
Subject: Re: Another One Gone...


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I used to play "Mama" repeatedly on the CD player as I was driving to get the lyrics and melody down. The guitar part is pretty simple. I played and sang it for my Mom at her 80th birthday party, accompanied by our daughter on her '87 Collector's Edition Ovation. He's right up there with Jim Croce as the artist that I've listened to the most times.
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nerdydave
Posted 2021-05-30 10:37 PM (#555620 - in reply to #555614)
Subject: Re: Another One Gone...


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More than Glen Campbell??
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elginacres
Posted 2021-06-01 9:51 PM (#555630 - in reply to #555614)
Subject: Re: Another One Gone...


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Great Singer
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Mark in Boise
Posted 2021-06-03 8:58 AM (#555643 - in reply to #555620)
Subject: Re: Another One Gone...


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nerdydave - 2021-05-30 9:37 PM

More than Glen Campbell??

I didn't have any Glen Campbell records, tapes or CDs until about 10 years ago and I haven't really tried to learn to play any of his songs. When I try to learn a song I play it over and over.

I do remember hearing Wichita Lineman a lot on the radio when it first came out and I was working nights.
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Love O Fair
Posted 2021-06-03 10:16 AM (#555645 - in reply to #555614)
Subject: Re: Another One Gone...



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@Mark in Boise >>>I do remember hearing Wichita Lineman a lot on the radio...<<<

A fun little factoid that some may already know--
A few years back all of the sanctioning bodies that keep track of such statistics pooled their information together to determine what single song was played the most on radio and live performance during the entire 20th century, and Wichita Lineman ended up taking the #1 slot.
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dba
Posted 2021-06-03 1:10 PM (#555647 - in reply to #555645)
Subject: Re: Another One Gone...



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More than "Yesterday"? That's surprising.
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nerdydave
Posted 2021-06-03 10:11 PM (#555648 - in reply to #555614)
Subject: Re: Another One Gone...


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No Glen Campbell till ten years ago?? And still an Ovation aficionado? Incredible!! Many paths to the same place!
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nerdydave
Posted 2021-06-03 10:12 PM (#555649 - in reply to #555614)
Subject: Re: Another One Gone...


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I do trust that you appreciate his expertise
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Mark in Boise
Posted 2021-06-04 8:31 AM (#555650 - in reply to #555649)
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nerdydave - 2021-06-03 9:12 PM

I do trust that you appreciate his expertise

I do now, but didn't then. I also didn't appreciate his contribution to Ovation. Ovations were everywhere in the 70s, so I saw them with Bread, America, Croce, Cat Stevens, Neil Diamond and seemingly everyone. Then I went into hibernation and didn't have a TV from 1975 to the late 80s, so I didn't see what guitars people were playing unless I saw them on an album cover or poster.
Rhinestone Cowboy was also on the radio a lot, but Glen was either a little too country or off the deep end for me at the time.
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nerdydave
Posted 2021-06-04 11:29 PM (#555654 - in reply to #555614)
Subject: Re: Another One Gone...


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Off the deep end?? What mean you?? Just curious.
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Mark in Boise
Posted 2021-06-05 8:49 AM (#555655 - in reply to #555654)
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nerdydave - 2021-06-04 10:29 PM

Off the deep end?? What mean you?? Just curious.

Booze, drugs and Tanya Tucker.
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Love O Fair
Posted 2021-06-05 6:09 PM (#555660 - in reply to #555614)
Subject: Re: Another One Gone...



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@Mark In Boise - >>>Booze, drugs and Tanya Tucker.<<<

You knew Tanya Tucker??
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nerdydave
Posted 2021-06-05 10:20 PM (#555661 - in reply to #555614)
Subject: Re: Another One Gone...


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yes perhaps that was a little deep. But his artistry and mastery of the guitar continued unabated!!
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