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Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: King Crimson's Mk2 Trons

From: fdoddy@aol.com
Date: 2010-07-31

Didn't Glenn Campbell run into some resistance at the record label with "Wichita Lineman", one of my desert island tunes?

fritz



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From: lsf5275@aol.com
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, Jul 29, 2010 8:14 pm
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: King Crimson's Mk2 Trons

 
Waylon Jennings did it best IMO
 
In a message dated 7/29/2010 7:16:09 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, djacques@csulb. edu writes:
Story has it when Jimmy Webb wrote MacArthur Park no one would record it (The Association turned it down). So they found Richard Harris (a non-singing actor) to record it. The rest is history...