I still hear your sea waves crashing, while I watch the cannons flashing, I clean my gun and dream of Galveston, |
I tell you, Nat King Cole, that was an impression, |
I think I've been blessed with the upbringing of parents who told you ... There's an old saying, 'If he tells you a hog weighs five pounds, wrap it up.' That pretty much says it. |
I thought it was pretty bad, ... I don't know how people can come in and do that, photographers and stuff. I just thought I got a bad rap on it 'cause they don't photograph everybody and throw them out in front of the public. |
I was in Studio 3 cutting a song with, I think, the Irish Rovers, ... I saw a record on the wall in the hall by Johnny Rivers. It had this song 'By the Time I Get to Phoenix.' And that made me curious. I wondered if it was about the city or the bird. So I listened to it, and I cried because it made me homesick. And if you can cry to Johnny Rivers, you know that's a good song. I recorded it the next day. And lo and behold it was one of the biggest records I ever had. |
I was standing in the old Western Studio 3 in Los Angeles looking at record albums. I saw a Johnny Rivers album with a song whose title intrigued me. I didn't know if 'By The Time I Get To Phoenix' was about the town or about the mythological bird coming out of the ashes. |
I wish the NLTRA could focus their energy directly in Tahoe City. |
I would have been content to just do studio work, making it on my own never really entered my mind. |
I'm 69 going on 48, ... That's amazing to me. I don't feel like that. I feel like a spring chicken on stage. |
I've seen their ranging [North Lake Tahoe Tourism and Community Investment] plan - it could be improved upon, but everything could be improved upon. From what I can see, they're doing a good job. |
In 1969, Pod Rogers came up with the idea of getting on the 'Glen Campbell Good Time Hour,' Russell said. |
It hurts and I'm going to have to have it operated on. Sometimes, I have to use just three fingers on my left hand when I play. |
It was a drag, man. I'd never been in jail before, |
John Wayne's 9-year-old daughter really loved my show, and she wanted to meet me, ... So Duke got in his station wagon and drove down to the studio one day. That's how we met. ... He's the one who got me the part (in 'True Grit'). |
King of the Road. |