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Childhood - Pay For Cool

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Album: Lacuna
Released: 2014

Pay For Cool Lyrics

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Lacuna is largely based on memories of Brixton, where Childhood co-founders Ben Romans-Hopcraft and Leo Dobsen both grew up. This song is a biting critique of the South London district. "Most of the record is about growing up in South London," Romans-Hopcraft told NME. "It's about me thinking that everything's dandy [here], but [realising] it's actually not and coming to terms with that."

Clyde McPhatter - A Lover's Question

Clyde McPhatter - A Lover's Question Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: The Best Of Clyde McPhatter
Released: 1958

A Lover's Question Lyrics

Does she love me, with all her heart
Should I worry, when we're apart
It's A Lover's Question, I'd like to know.

Does she need me, as she pretends
Is this a game, well then will I win
It's a lover's question, I'd like to know

I'd like to know when she's not with me
If she's still true to me
I'd like to know when we're kissing
Does she feel just what I feel,
And how am I to know it's really real.

Oh, tell me where, the answer lies
Is it in her kiss or in her eyes
It's a lover's question I'd like to know.

I'd like to know when she's not with me
If she's still true to me
I'd like to know when we're kissing
Does she feel just what I feel,
And how am I to know it's really real.

Oh, tell me where, the answer lies
Is it in her kiss or in her eyes
It's a lover's question I'd like to know.

Writer/s: BENTON, BROOK / WILLIAMS, JIMMY
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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This was McPhatter's first Top 10 hit after leaving the Drifters. He wrote the song with Brook Benton, who had his first of 24 US Top 40 hits in 1959 with "It's Just A Matter Of Time." Benton sang the demo version of "A Lover's Question," which his producer Clyde Otis then presented to Jerry Wexler and Ahmet Ertegun of Atlantic Records, who liked it so much that they invited Benton and Otis to come into the studio and recreate that feel for Clyde McPhatter's hit version of the tune. That's Benton doing the finger snaps.

French Montana - Don't Panic

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Album: Mac & Cheese 4
Released: 2014

Don't Panic Lyrics

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This DJ Mustard-produced song finds Montana rhyming about not getting affected by the hate he gets for his relationship with reality star Khloé Kardashian. The rapper tells the haters that the pair are just getting started, and it's not another flash in the pan celebrity romance. Montana also takes a shot at his girlfriend's ex Lamar Odom when he raps, "Shorty fell in love with a hustler. Man I took her from a buster."

Khloé Kardashian also features on the single artwork with French Montana.

Khloé Kardashian takes a starring role in the song's music video together with her boyfriend French Montana, as they play a pair of masked psychopaths wreaking havoc on a town. The clip was directed by Eif Rivera and filmed in Paterson, New Jersey in early July 2014.

Also featuring is video model Sandy Raquel, who bears a strong resemblance to Khloé's sister Kim and public relations guru and magazine publisher Savannah Britt who takes on the role of her good friend Malika Haqq. According to The Daily Mail, Khloé was adamant that only two other women star in the clip alongside her and that one must look like either of her two sisters while the other should resemble Malika Haqq. "A bunch of video models showed up to be in the video, but Khloe wasn't having it," said the newspaper's source. "She kept insisting to the director that one girl resemble her sister Kim or Kourtney, and one must resemble her best friend, Malika."

"She got nearly perfect matches of [the] girls. This girl looked exactly like Malika and the other looked exactly like Kim."

Bill Justis - Raunchy

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Album: Raunchy
Released: 1957

Raunchy Lyrics

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This was originally called "Backwards." Justis changed the title when he heard someone enjoying the tune say that it was "raunchy," which meant "good" in '50s teenage slang.

Ernie Freeman covered this. It was a reversal of the usual process as Freeman was black and Justis was white. Freeman's version hit #4 while Justis' hit #2. Although both did extensive session work, "Raunchy" remains each act's sole Top 40 hit. (thanks, Brad Wind - Miami, FL, for above 2)

George Harrison played this on his guitar for John Lennon when he was auditioning to be a member of The Quarrymen.

The Gaslight Anthem - Get Hurt

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Album: Get Hurt
Released: 2014

Get Hurt Lyrics

Sometimes I wake up in the morning
Sometimes I dream small
I keep my wounds without a bandage baby
As I come stumbling through the door
Spend my nights in this location
Talking to spirits on the floor
I think I came to find the feeling baby
Between what was mine and what was yours

And I came to Get Hurt,
Might as well do your worst to me, hey hey
Have you come here to get hurt?
Have you come to take away from me, from me, from me
Might as well do your worst to me

I think I'd better move to California (I think it's time to move)
Mama, can you say a pray for me? (Say a prayer for me)
I heard they don't get so low down, (All my friends get so low)
I heard they never bleed,
Not like we bleed

I came to get hurt,
Might as well do your worst to me, hey hey
Have you come here to get hurt?
Have you come to take away from me, from me, from me
Might as well do your worst to me

And it gets pretty lame
And the stations would change
And the things once in order
Now seem so strange,
Once I quit town all the hurt apart from myself
Now all I can see is the need,
The need.

I came to get hurt,
Might as well do your worst to me, hey hey
Have you come here to get hurt?
Have you come to take away from me
From me, from me
Might as well do your worst to me

Maybe you needed a change,
Maybe I was in your way
Maybe some days they stay
And some things go away
Maybe I was mine, maybe you were not the same!

Writer/s: FALLON, BRIAN
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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The title track of Gaslight Anthem's fifth album, the record was inspired by vocalist and guitarist Brian Fallon's divorce from his wife of ten years, Hollie. "Sometimes, I don't even know how it happened. I don't even know how it got like this," he told Noisey of the split. "All I know is that it did. And I now have to figure out: What do I do now?"

John Van Hamersveld, the guy who created the sleeves for The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour and The Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street records, was enlisted to help out with the album's artwork. "He came out to see us, we sat down with him and he came up with that one day, just off the cuff, no direction at all, just came up with it," Fallon told NME of the bold upside down heart that graces the front of the album. "It was so simple and yet it said everything."

Frankie Avalon - Venus

Frankie Avalon - Venus Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: A Whole Lotta Frankie
Released: 1959

Venus Lyrics

Hey, Venus, oh, Venus
Venus, if you will
Please send a little girl for me to thrill
A girl who wants my kisses and my arms
A girl with all the charms of you

Venus, make her fair
A lovely girl with sunlight in her hair
And take the brightest stars up in the skies
And place them in her eyes for me

Venus, goddess of love that you are
Surely the things I ask
Can't be too great a task

Venus, if you do
I promise that I always will be true
I'll give her all the love I have to give
As long as we both shall live

Venus, goddess of love that you are
Surely the things I ask
Can't be too great a task

Venus, if you do
I promise that I always will be true
I'll give her all the love I have to give
As long as we both shall live

Hey, Venus, oh, Venus
Make my wish come true

Writer/s: MARSHALL, EDWARD
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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This song is about a man who prays to the goddess Venus to send him a woman who is basically her human equivalent. Venus was the Roman goddess of love, beauty and fertility. (thanks, Brett - Edmonton, Canada)

This was the first of two US #1 singles by Avalon, who was a former trumpeter - the other was "Why." It was also the first US Top 10 hit that Avalon sang without holding his nose. He held his honker on earlier hits "Dede Dinah" (#7) and "Ginger Bread" (#9).

Al Martino was offered this song before Avalon, but he turned it down. Like Avalon, Martino was a popular Italian-American singer who was also an actor - he played Johnny Fontane in The Godfather.

Avalon's recording career started when Chancellor Records president Bob Marcucci signed him up after he saw Avalon sitting on a street curb. He became a teen idol, and went on to fame starring in beach movies with Annette Funicello. (thanks, Brad Wind - Miami, FL, for above 3)

The Gaslight Anthem - Underneath The Ground

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Album: Get Hurt
Released: 2014

Underneath The Ground Lyrics

That's enough, my man, it's time to clap our hands.
Call the papers up tomorrow, say we did the best we can.
'Cause our doctor's in the hospital, the poet just laid down.
There's one good man I know, and he can't talk right now.

I'd like to hear what you'd say to me if I was bulletproof and free again.
Or what you'd shout if I was dead in the ground, and buried under another name?

Or would you talk about if I loved her now?
Tell my sins to God out loud.
Would you cry, cry 'cause I was gone?
Would you spit and hiss and curse my name,
And embarrass me to the other graves?
Would you lay right down with me, Underneath The Ground?

Now who you think I am?
Worse than all the rest?
That's what I'll be now, just like no one said.
Did anybody see that, there's a crack right down my head.
But mama, how they'll cheer for us, while the blood drips down our legs.

I'd like to know if you could see through the soul
Like I could see to your soul back then.
And reach your hands through all the hurt and defenses,
Would you still try if you knew I was gone?

Or would you talk about if I loved her now?
Tell my sins to God out loud.
Would you cry, cry 'cause I was gone?
Would you spit and hiss and curse my name,
And embarrass me to the other graves?
Would you lay right down with me, underneath the ground?
Underneath the ground?

(I wanna caution you to watch out for the wolves.
And for the mad, mad weather.
I wanna caution you to watch out for the wolves.
And for someday, when you're older)

Or would you talk about if I loved her now?
Tell my sins to God out loud.
Would you cry, cry 'cause I was gone?
Would you spit and hiss and curse my name,
And embarrass me to the other graves?
Would you lay right down with me, underneath the ground?
Underneath the ground?

I wanna thank you all for your courtesy.
I wanna thank you all for watching us bleed.
I wanna thank you all for your courtesy.
I wanna thank you all for watching us bleed.
Underneath the ground.

Writer/s: FALLON, BRIAN
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Brian Fallon sings here about death. Radio.com asked the Gaslight Anthem frontman if the song's sound and subject matter came together naturally? He replied: "Yeah, I think certain songs like that - they almost tell you what they sound like before you finish it."

"That one started just on the piano, by itself.," Fallon continued. "It was just that little riff at the beginning."

Fallon explained the inspiration for the track: "I was watching this movie where a guy was dead but he could hear people talking about him," he recalled. "And I was like, 'Oh, that sucks! Uch. What would people say? He was such a good guy, but not really?'"

"I think that impacts people heavily," Fallon continued. "You could be really angry at someone their whole life but then they drop dead suddenly, and you're like, time for some second thoughts there."

Live - I Alone

Live - I Alone Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Throwing Copper
Released: 1994

I Alone Lyrics

It's easier not to be wise
And measure these things by your brains
I sank into Eden with you
Alone in the church by and by
I'll read to you here, save your eyes
You'll need them, your boat is at sea
Your anchor is up, you've been swept away
And the greatest of teachers won't hesitate
To leave you there, by yourself, chained to fate

I Alone love you
I alone tempt you
I alone love you
Fear is not the end of this!
I alone love you
I alone tempt you
I alone love you

It's easier not to be great
And measure these things by your eyes
We long to be here by his resolve
Alone in the church by and by
To cradle the baby in space
And leave you there by yourself chained to fate

I alone love you
I alone tempt you
I alone love you
Fear is not the end of this!
I alone love you
I alone tempt you
I alone love you

I alone love you
I alone tempt you
I alone love you

Oh, now, we took it back too far
Only love can save us now
All these riddles that you burn
All come runnin' back to you
All these rhythms that you hide
Only love can save us now
All these riddles that you burn yeah, yeah, yeah

I alone love you
I alone tempt you
I alone love you
Fear is not the end of this!
I alone love you
I alone tempt you
I alone love you

I alone love you
I alone tempt you
I alone love you
I alone love you
I alone tempt you
I alone love you

Writer/s: KOWALCZYK, EDWARD JOEL / TAYLOR, CHAD DAVID / DAHLHEIMER, PATRICK / GRACEY, CHAD ALAN
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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The lyrics are a telling of the story in the Bible, Luke 8:22-25, in which Jesus calms a storm while he and his disciples are at sea. This song (like the story) proves the power of love.

This is just one of many Live songs that contains religious imagery - both Christian and Eastern. (thanks Live Freak - Beirut, Lebanon, for above 2)

One of Live's first important singles, this was their first hit and led the way for "Lightning Crashes."

Judas Priest - Revolution

Judas Priest - Revolution Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Angel of Retribution
Released: 2005

Revolution Lyrics

If you think it's over, better think again
There'll be no compromise
Time to hit the power, feel adrenaline
Move into overdrive

Here comes the Revolution
Time for retribution

If you think I'll back down or accept defeat
Brace for the aftershock
Take it to the limits, take it to the streets
Give it everything you've got

Time to come together
Revolution
Living on forever
Revolution

Get ready for the revolution

It's a revolution
It's a retribution

Something's in the air
Time to change, it's time to change

You better watch out tonight
You better watch out for the revolution

Bring it down, bring it down

Writer/s: TIPTON, GLENN RAYMOND/DOWNING, KENNETH/HALFORD, ROB
Publisher: EMI Music Publishing, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Judas Priest vocalist Rob Halford channels Robert Plant on this song, especially in the outro section. Speaking to Rock Cellar magazine about his admiration for the former Led Zeppelin frontman, Halford said: "The voice is such a remarkable instrument. I always think when you're singing, you're singing from your soul. I get often asked, where do you find the way to scream so hard? If you listen to what Robert Plant was doing in those early Led Zeppelin albums or what Janis is doing with Big Brother & the Holding Company, it makes you understand what the human voice can do."

The song's intro was built around a riff dating back to the 1970s that was found on a cassette tape of Judas Priest demos.

The song peaked at #23 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks. It was Judas Priest's first single since 1992's "Night Crawler" to enter the US charts.

Georgie Fame - Yeh Yeh

Georgie Fame - Yeh Yeh Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Yeh Yeh
Released: 1965

Yeh Yeh Lyrics

Every evening, when all my day's work is through
I call my baby, and ask him what shall we do
I mention movies, but he don't seem to dig that
And then he asks me, why don't I come to his flat
And have some supper and let the evening pass by
By playing records besides a groovy hi-fi
I say Yeh Yeh, and that's what I say
I say yeh yeh

My baby loves me, she gets a feeling so fine
And when she love me, she makes me know that she's mine
And when she kisses, I feel the fire get hot
She never misses, she gives it all that she's got
And when she asks me if everything is okay
I got my answer, the only thing I can say
I say yeh yeh, that's what I say
I say yeh yeh

We'll play a melody and
Turn the lights down low so that none can see
We gotta do that, we gotta do that
We gotta do that, we gotta do that
And there'll be no one else alive
In all the world 'cept you and me
Yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh
Yeh yeh, yeh yeh

Pretty baby, I never knew such a thrill
Just thought I'd tell you, because I'm trembling still
But pretty baby, I want you all for my own
I think I'm ready to leave those others alone
Don't need to ask me if everything is OK
I got my answer, the only thing I can say
I say yeh yeh, that's what I say
I say yeh yeh, that's what I say
I say yeh yeh

We'll play a melody and
Turn the lights down low so that none can see
We gotta do that, we gotta do that
We gotta do that, we gotta do that
And there'll be no one else alive
In all the world 'cept you and me
Yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh yeh, yeh yeh

Oh pretty baby, I never knew such a thrill
Just thought I'd tell you, because I'm trembling still
But pretty baby, I want you all for my own
I think I'm ready to leave those others alone
Don't need to ask me if everything is okay
I got my answer, the only thing I can say
I say yeh yeh, that's what I say
I say yeh yeh, that's what I say
I say yeh yeh, that's what I say
I say yeh yeh
That's what I say, I say yeh yeh
That's what I say, I say yeh yeh
That's what I say, yeah

Writer/s: GRANT ROGERS, PAT PATRICK, JON HENDRICKS
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC, MUSIC & MEDIA INT'L, INC.
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This song hit #1 in UK due to heavy airplay at Radio Caroline, a pirate radio station broadcasting from ships in international waters that was formed for the expressed purpose of playing this.

In the US, this was featured in a Chrysler commercial.

Georgie Fame's real name: Clive Powell. In 1960 Powell had his name changed by his manager Larry Parnes to Georgie Fame, and was then put in charge of Billy Fury's backing band, the Famous Flames (not to be confused with James Brown's first group). He was 17 at the time.

Georgie Fame (from 1000 UK #1 Hits by Jon Kutner and Spencer Leigh): "It was recorded originally by Mongo Santamaria. Jon Hendricks put lyrics to it and recorded it live at The Newport Jazz Festival. I played it up and down the country for months before we recorded it. We were wondering what to do as a single and somebody said, 'Why don't you do 'Yeh Yeh?' and it went down well."

Georgie Fame went on to have several more Top 20 hits in the UK through the rest of the 1960s including 2 more #1s: "Get Away" and "Ballad Of Bonnie And Clyde." (thanks, Edward Pearce - Ashford, Kent, England, for above 2)

Kris Allen - Prove It To You

Kris Allen - Prove It To You Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Horizons
Released: 2014

Prove It To You Lyrics

Maybe I got used to your face,
Maybe we ran out of things to say
I heard a voice in the back of my head
Telling me don't you wanna come and taste it?
Into the night, into the wild
Came like a hunger and I had to chase it

I know I had to let you go
But I found out that on my own
That you were always the one
I don't think I deserve you,
But I feel like I'm gonna love you
For all my life, no matter what I do!
Give me a chance, give me a chance
To Prove It To You

You are the face in all my dreams
(Give me a chance, give me a chance)
All of the memories haunting me
I hear your voice in the back of my head
Sounding a lot like coming back
So I ran into your eyes, into the fight
What will you do if I do that?

I know I had to let you go
But I found out that on my own
That you were always the one
I don't think I deserve you,
But I feel like I'm gonna love you
For all my life, no matter what I do!
Give me a chance, give me a chance
To prove it to you

Feel like I'm out here lost
Counting away the cost
So, will you give me a chance, give me a chance

I know I had to let you go
But I found out that on my own
You were always the one
I don't think I deserve you,
But I feel like I'm gonna love you
For all my life, no matter what I do!
Give me a chance, give me a chance
Oh, won't you give me a chance, give me a chance
To prove it to you?

Writer/s: KRIS ALLEN, CINDY MORGAN
Publisher: MUSIC SERVICES, INC.
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This song finds Allen duetting with Russian-born, Nashville-based singer, Lenachka. "She is just an incredible singer and I love her vibe," he told The Hollywood Reporter . "I think we sang this song three times and then we were done. It's a really simple song. There's not a lot to it and she came in and made it a hundred times better. "

Glen Campbell - By the Time I Get to Phoenix

Glen Campbell - By the Time I Get to Phoenix Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: By the Time I Get to Phoenix
Released: 1967

By the Time I Get to Phoenix Lyrics

By the Time I Get to Phoenix she'll be rising
She'll find the note I left hangin' on her door
She'll laugh when she reads the part that says I'm leavin'
'Cause I've left that girl so many times before.

By the time I make Albuquerque she'll be working
She'll probably stop at lunch and give me a call
But she'll just hear that phone keep on ringin'
Off the wall, that's all.

By the time I make Oklahoma she'll be sleepin'
She'll turn softly and call my name out low
And she'll cry just to think I'd really leave her
Tho' time and time I try to tell her so
She just didn't know I would really go.

Writer/s: Webb, Jimmy
Publisher: EMI Music Publishing
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Like "MacArthur Park" and "The Worst That Could Happen," this was written by Jimmy Webb about a love affair that he had with Susan Ronstadt, who is Linda Ronstadt's cousin. Their relationship didn't work out, and Susan married another guy.

This was originally recorded by Johnny Rivers in 1965, who had a hit with "Memphis" the year before. The story of how the song was recorded starts with Jimmy Webb's first job - staff songwriter at Motown Records. Webb told us: "I worked for Motown when I was about 17, 18 years old. I was a white face. There were a lot of black faces and mine was a white face. But they always treated me very kindly, treated me like family there and really taught me a lot. And they had another kid there who had been on The Donna Reed Show, his name was Paul Petersen, and he had a couple of records. They're almost novelty records. One of them was called 'My Dad.' Kind of a ballad called (singing), 'My dad, now he is a man.' And it was a hit. And then he had another one called 'She Can't Find Her Keys.' He went out on a date with this girl and I don't know, she can't find her keys.

And they came to me and said, 'We need a song for Paul Petersen.' And I wrote 'By the Time I Get to Phoenix.' And they didn't like it for him. They didn't like it for anybody. They ended up cutting it with a couple of different people and not really being happy with it. And when I left the company they gave me the song and said, 'You can take this one with you.' And I said, 'Okay, I will. I like it.' They liked verses and choruses there. Verses and big choruses. And 'By the Time I Get to Phoenix' is three verses, very simple, very direct storyline.

The guy who hired me at Motown, Mark Gordon, who managed the Fifth Dimension, he was signing them over at Soul City, which was Johnny Rivers' company. I ended up going over there. They bought my contract out, I went over there. And I took 'Up, Up and Away,' 'By the Time I Get To Phoenix,' 'Worst that Could Happen, and a handful of hit songs that were there with me.

So after all that, Johnny Rivers cut 'By the Time I Get to Phoenix.' Went in and did it with the Wrecking Crew and Marty Paich doing the strings. And then the story loops back to me from Glen Campbell. He was driving along the street one day, heard Johnny's record and thought, 'I could cut that record and make a hit out of it.' I think they both cut them in the same room, in Western 3. I remember working in there with Lou Adler on the first one, but I don't remember working on Glen's records. I wasn't always around for Glen's records. So there are these long, torturous stories for most of these songs that have not had easy lives." (See our full interview with Jimmy Webb .)

This was Campbell's first Top 40 hit after filling in on tour for Brian Wilson with The Beach Boys. When Webb heard Campbell's version of this, he wrote him a followup song, "Wichita Lineman," which reached #3 in early 1969. Webb said in our interview: "I think that Glen's voice is perfectly suited to early JW - 'Wichita Lineman' and 'By the Time I Get To Phoenix' - there was some kind of a surreal fit between his voice and those songs. It's very hard for me to look back and say, "Oh, a-ha, now I see why we were successful." Because at the time it certainly wasn't anything that I was in control of."

Before Campbell recorded this, he played guitar on a version by Pat Boone. Webb was 21 when he wrote this song, which became his second songwriting hit after Up-Up and Away.

This was Campbell's first hit as a solo artist. Through his session work, he was well known in the industry, and Brian Wilson tried to make him a star by writing and producing a song called "Guess I'm Dumb," which Campbell recorded in 1965 but failed to dent the charts. Once Campbell recorded "Phoenix," his career as not just a singer but as an all-around entertainer took off: In 1969, he got his own TV show that ran for 3 years.

Campbell thought about changing the line at the end, "By the time I get to Oklahoma" to "By the time I get to Arkansas," because that's where he's from. He decided not to because he wasn't sure Jimmy Webb would like it.

This won 1967 Grammys for Best Contemporary Male Solo Vocal Performance and Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male.

Isaac Hayes recorded a 19-minute version of this song, including an eight-minute spoken introduction, on his 1969 million selling Hot Buttered Soul album. Like the other songs on the album, it was recorded in one take. Hayes explained to Rolling Stone magazine: "You know, I don't plan it, I just rap, man. Cause if you go over it too many times it just gets mechanical."

Hayes explained to National Public Radio: "The rap came out of the necessity to communicate. There's a local club in Memphis, primarily black, called The Tiki Club. One day there I heard this song by Glen Campbell - 'By the Time I Get to Phoenix.' I thought, 'Wow, this song is great, this man must really love this woman.' I ran down to the studio and told them about the song, and they said 'yeah, yeah.' They didn't feel what I felt, I thought maybe they weren't getting it. The Bar-Kays were playing the Tiki Club a few days later, so I told them to learn the song and that I would sit in. I told them to keep cycling the first chord, and I started talking, just telling the story about what could have happened to cause this man to leave. Halfway through the song, conversations started to subside, and by the time I finished the song, there wasn't a dry eye in the house."

What did Jimi Webb think of Isaac Hayes' version? He recalled to Uncut magazine June 2014: "When it came out, I thought, 'Wow, that's unusual!' It took up virtually the whole side of an album, but I really liked it."

"The whole talking blues thing at the beginning was like a novel - a major opus," he continued. "It was to do with the Delta blues tradition, that way of telling a story, although people sometimes forget he did a great job at singing the song too, I'd produced The Supremes, I understood R 'n' B and soul artists, so it wasn't so far-fetched to me. Isaac was a precursor to rap and hip-hop, he was trying to create something new."

"We later became friends, and I thanked him for doing a song," he concluded, "I told him it was a blessing for me."