Best of Glen Campbell on YouTube

[Cowpoke]

Ha you made me go and listen to some more concert recordings. Turns out Glen already did it on his 1981 Glen Campbell Live album, recorded in England. On Live at the Royal Festival Hall from 1977 he justs ends with ‘like a rhinestone cowboy”. So we have pinned it down to somewhere between 1977 and 1981! I wonder if we can get it even more accurate.

[KMFrye54]

He was doing both in the PBS concert (with the South Dakota Symphony), if memory serves. That was in 2001.

So we can see him use those "extras" at least that far back.

[Cowpoke]

That is a good question. We had a similar question once about... when did Glen start to add "and I'm doing fine" at the end of Wichita Lineman. In 1990, during the Doncaster (Live at the Dome) concert he still used "got a wichita woman/lady on his mind" at the end of the song. A few years later, during the Branson years, he had switched to "and I'm doing fine".

But I have no idea when he started adding "and cowgirls!!!" to Rhinestone Cowboy. Was it also during his time in Branson? Or earlier?

[jay]

Any idea when Glen incorporated that into his routine? I wonder what female influence suggested it.

[Cowpoke]

Exactly Randy. One would have expected that she would have done the "and cowgirls!" part at the end. Oh well...

[Randy]

Yes , me neither Cowpoke. Only two things left out were "sounds like a norman luboff choir" and "and cowgirllllllllllllllllllllllll"

[Cowpoke]

Never noticed this tribute by Kacey Musgraves at the time this was posted (2017)

[admin]

GRAMMY AWARDS FLASHBACK, an EXTREMELY rare interview with Glen Campbell and Bobbie Gentry


(GLEN CAMPBELL & BOBBIE GENTRY SEGMENT BEGINS at 3:56)
Linked to the WFAA Film channel on YouTube
From March 2, 1968

[Randy]

Yes it is excellent Dee! I watch an oldie yt channel often called smurftools and he has video and audio editied. Good example would be the song "Precious and Few" ... Other channels it's not nearly as clear.

[Cowpoke]

Great ear, Dee. It seems Glen song doctored just about every song he ever sang. Very interesting topic!