45chatburn (August 18, 2008 at 12:14 am)

He's a great American genius. Treasure him.

ColdMountainWater (August 17, 2008 at 12:22 am)

Note to self: This is tough song to sing.----I just spent the last hour playing this song on my instrument and singing it. Not easy.Glen Campbell just makes it sound so damned easy!

ColdMountainWater (August 16, 2008 at 11:03 pm)

It's usually good to hear the writer perform his or her own material. I have to admit that the vocals here are embarrassing: he simply does not have the voice for this material.The last 7-8 measures of this performance sound like Laura Nyro's piano playing. Other piano parts here sound like his song MacArthur Park -- perhaps too schmaltzy compared to the utter finesse of the vocals & arrangement of the Glen Campbell version.Still, one of the greatest songs written in popular music.

DunhillHilton (July 27, 2008 at 9:41 am)

Jimmy Webb was the best !

zimmy81 (July 8, 2008 at 6:51 pm)

beautiful performance,ive never seen this before and im blown away,and it IS a hard song to sing ,piano outstanding,class all day long,

BloozeDaddy76 (July 8, 2008 at 11:52 am)

When you take a great Jimmy Webb song and puts Glen Campbells' great voice to it, the result is a masterpiece. While Glen can outsing Jimmy any day, Webb still does a nice job with this great song that he wrote..

rvcrvc2 (July 5, 2008 at 2:27 am)

Thanks for the post, miles, negative commentary & all. Have you ever heard Burt Bacharach do "his" stuff? I think the composer should be cut some slack - he may have heard Glen, in this case, in his head as he wrote it.

boxfett (June 18, 2008 at 12:48 am)

What a genius.

godwit7777 (June 16, 2008 at 1:43 am)

read milestonexpress' comment with his posting. i am not going to complain when pompous asses post remarkable performances, so thank you for the post, milestonexpress!

IsabellaInc (June 15, 2008 at 3:07 pm)

This man is a genius. Milestoneexpress, thanks so much for posting this. I have never gotten to hear Jimmy doing this song himself. I would like to dedicate my version of this song to this video in particular.