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And as much as "The Civil War" changed Ken Burns's life, the remastering process has given Burns the opportunity to really make the film he dreamed of more than 25 years ago. "The Civil War" was ...
Sep 28, 2019 · But during the production of the Ken Burns film, Glen Campbell was going through a farewell tour, and a high profile battle with Alzheimer’s. There was a compilation album, and tribute concerts. The Band Perry won a Grammy for re-recording his hit “Gentle On My Mind” written by John Hartford (who also didn’t get a mention in the film).
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Schneider met Glen Campbell when the former was Gene Autry’s accountant, and Glen was doing demos for Autry’s publishing company and looking for an accountant himself. “Working with Glen was very easy,” he says. “He was very laidback, just like you saw him on TV. He took advice and direction very well, and he became one of my closest friends for ma...
“It seemed like he could play any genre of music. He could do The Mamas And The Papas and he could do Andy Williams or Frank Sinatra. It was easy, he could learn a song in two seconds. He didn’t read music, but he would hear it and then, boom, he would start out.” Some of the performances on Sings For The King showcase Campbell’s talents not only a...
When Campbell was living and working in Albuquerque, he went to see The Champs (most famous for their 1958 instrumental hit, ‘Tequila’), even going backstage to get their autographs. Their touring band included Jerry Fuller, who gave Campbell the encouragement he needed to further his career. “When I heard that voice, he played a few things on guit...
Drummer Hal Blaine is another contemporary of Campbell’s who knew him when each of them “had absolutely nothing but our instruments”, as he puts it. “Everybody knew Glen, [he] was a terrific guy. He came along and he used to do the most – what musicians refer to as – off-the-wall solos. He could do anything. The point was, he sang. He could sound l...
Steven Auerbach learned of the very existence of Campbell’s Presley demos from Ben Weisman, his wife’s uncle, who wrote 57 songs that The King recorded – more than any other composer. “A big part about getting to know my uncle was learning about his career with Elvis,” Auerbach says. “He offhandedly mentioned that Glen would sing demos for him and ...
“The tape is 55 years old, so the adhesive is worn off. So in order just to hear a song it took a lot of effort to just keep resplicing it until we could listen to a stretch of it. After about an hour and a half we were like, ‘I think that’s Glen Campbell.’ And this started the process of going through boxes, putting tapes on his reel-to-reel playe...
Oct 17, 2023 · But he does not regard himself as a didactic film-maker. “When you make films advocating a particular point of view then you’ve got an agenda. You’ve already become an argument and all we do ...
Sep 4, 2015 · His 2,250-page diary was discovered in the 1930s, and Burns uses it to counter the horror of battle with mundane facts of urban life away from the front. The quotes he chooses always end on a ...
Ken Burns: Director & Producer. The War, a co-production of Florentine Films and WETA, was produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick and examines the myriad ways in which the Second World War touched ...
Mar 15, 2021 · It cannot be said that Ken Burns is an unambitious filmmaker. He is, after all, a director who has spent 40 years making documentaries about truly foundational American subjects: the Civil War ...
