This is very special to me. Many many years ago, when the Aeroplane album came out, I was waiting outside the gym at a local college where a concert was to take place. A beat up car showed up. The performers got out & I helped them carry in their instruments. One of them asked if there was somewhere to eat. I told them of a pizza & sub shop a few minutes away. That's how I got to have dinner with the late great John Hartford, Norman Blake, Tut Taylor & Vassar Clements. Later on, while John Hartford was using the facilities, I held his fiddle for him. One of the greatest memories of my Life.
You made my day with that memory. Beats the hell out of the time I was peeing next to Poco's Rusty Young, just before he took to the stage at Portland's Euphoria Tavern in April 1983.
Nice job! While Glen Campbell is best known for doing this, John Hartford wrote it. I had the pleasure of playing a gig with him back in the seventies. He was a gentle giant. We were a rock band and were on a program of 4 acts of which he was the headliner. We did our best loud show (lol) and he came on right after us in his solo, genteel way and just proceeded to slay the crowd. He was so good. We were humbled that day. I never forgot it. It's not how loud and energetic you are, it's how you relate to the crowd. He had them in the palm of his hand so to speak from the first note. Standing ovation when he finished. He was special.
Alas, poor John, and Glen, too, have joined that great Hobo caravan in the sky. I hope even now they're sharing coffee from that gurgling tin can in that train yard. Yes, a GREAT song.
This song would often be playin on the 8-track in my Dad's old red truck when I was a kid. Yesterday would have been his 88th birthday. Thank you for doing what you do. And please come back to BC. ❤❤
There are 2 amazing things about how John Hartford wrote this song. 1. He wrote it beginning to end in about 12 minutes! 2. He wrote this "country" song based on the movie "Dr. Zhivago" where Zhivago loses Lara and is walking down the railroad tracks.
I listened to this song when it came out, and I imagine I've heard it 100 times. It's one of my all-time favorites, and you two performed it admirably. Thank you.
Beautiful cover of a beautiful song Toni and Elle. I play piano but I had banjo lessons 50 years ago. 2 Summers ago I took out my banjo to see if I remembered anything and made a video playing Cripple Creek. 🎹 👍 🪕
I WAS IN THE 7 TH GRADE ( 1967 ) WHEN THIS SONG FIRST PLAYED ON THE RADIO . I HAVE LOVED MR. HARTFORD'S SONG SINCE . YOU GIRLS NAILED IT!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU NOW HAVE A NEW FAN FOR LIFE KEEP PLAYIN'
Great to see you back ladies. Great performance as usual. Always loved this song. Dean Martin also did a great version. What always amazed me though was the amount of verses and very complicated lyrics and words. Never knew how artists could memorise the words and do it live on stage. Were you both cheating a bit and have the words running up an audio que. wouldn’t minded if you did. If not, very well done. Whatever, great singing and playing. 🙋♂️🇬🇧👏👏👏
Nice rendition! I watched an interview with Alice Cooper. He and Glenn Campbell were pals in Arizona and used to golf together. One day they were late for a tee time and were caught by a police camera. Alice said the photo of their wide, shocked eyes in the front seat is still on the police station wall. RIP Glenn.
I've read somewhere and seen at least a couple of youtube videos that mentioned that Glen Campbell never learned to read music, that all of renditions were learned by ear. What a great ear he had!!!!
Glen used to open the Goodtime Hour with this song and with the help of John Hartford. They appeared together many times on the show, pickin and singing some great tunes.
I love this song ladies.........SO GLAD YOU GRACED US WITH IT!!!!!! Toni you scare me.......WOW(banjo playing without thinking)!!!!!!! Elle so good.....Such Justice to the song!!!!!! You two together........GOLD!!!!!
I had the pleasure to meet John and hung out for a short while in the back room before a show at Michigan State around 1978. He played banjo, the autoharp, and tapped his shoes on a board with a acoustic pickup. He sang "I'll Fly Away" on the autoharp. I remember it like it was yesterday...
This is one of my favorite bluegrass songs. John Hartford came to my hometown (Kyoto, Japan) in 1979, when I was a university student. John held a concert at a small live house. I love his low-tuned banjo playing. Thank you for taking me to my young days.
As a kid I used to play this song along with Glen Campbell as I was learning guitar. Yes, I'm that old and proud of it. But not as proud as you two should be with your beautiful playing and singing!
I'm right there with ya. When I was eleven my folks bought me my first guitar for Christmas and a Glen Campbell guitar book came with it. I learned all the songs and still love them all these years down the road.
I found this channel while relaxing and yall played Big Rock Candy Mountains. It was done so well I started scrolling more of your content. Yall do extremely well and I enjoy what you’re doing. Thanks for the entertainment.
Sunday evening here in the UK, and this is just the job for gentling my mind before heading to bed. Absolutely beautiful as always, and what a great song to cover. Gorgeous harmonies, beautiful guitar playing and brilliant banjo picking. Thank you! Love these Sunday morning (evening) videos.
Elle and Toni, regards from a fan of your in Brazil. I discover your name today, Elle. Nice name. Toni, besides a incredible musician she is, her eyes are so beautiful. Cheers!
A special thanks for this one. "Gentle on My Mind" is a nearly forgotten classic from my youth.. at a time in life when I was too new to appreciate it's perfection. Bless you and bless the late, great John Hartford.
Beautiful. I never tire of the imagery of this song. Especially growing up near a train yard and there would be 'hobos' sitting by that caldron over the fire in the cold evenings. I would imagine they probably had someone gentle on their minds as well. Well done ladies.
"Gentle on My Mind" was one of those comfortable songs that's been around and familiar since the 60s. I think that today, listening to you two, I really heard the lyrics for the first time and found myself musing fondly about a few wonderful people who somehow vanished from my life decades ago. {Sniff} Thanks.
John Hartford is/was one of the unsung greats of American music. Discovering him was one of the greatest gifts of my entire life. Beautiful performance, thank you.
Wholeheartedly agree! Aeroplane, Morning Bugle and Mark Twang are my favourites, but I love all his stuff. Got to see him perform solo at York U. in Toronto in 1975.
Simply amazing how you both seem to be able to do these songs so seamlessly and so smooth..like listening to silk , if silk could sing ..the playing and vocals are so well done 👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️
I was in middle school when this charted. I was a little rocker and my parents were Symphony subscribers and jazz fans so nobody in our house was watching The Glenn Campbell Show but I loved this song. Years later I saw John Hartford at Ebbitts Field in Denver. Thank's Toni and Elle (still want to type Reina but ...) for so many Sunday Mornings.
I've loved this song since I first heard Glen Campbell and John Hartford play it on TV. One of the songs that made me take up the banjo. And remarkably, Toni and I use the same chords (I start on the high strings, but starting this morning, I'm switching to the low strings. Many thanks from an old banjo picker!
Hearing you sing this brings back a memory of riding in the car with my mom when I was nine or ten, and hearing this song on the radio. That was beautiful, thanks!
This song, is special to me. Tears of joy fill my face, and I am back to college in 1967, driving my 1963 Chevy II listening to Glen as the Chester County scenery is floating by. Toni and Elle, you all are perfect! Looking forward to many more musical interludes! Many thanks!!!
Just been having an Elle and Toni listening session, after discovering Elle through her poetry shorts. Just wow. Your music together is so beautiful. Elle your poetry and comedy is so clever and captivating. Well done. Good Show!!
I didn’t find out about Glens true talents until a few years before he passed. He was a gifted guitar player, the guy could play with the best of them. You two did right by singing his song. Thanks ladies 😊
Glen was very humble about his approach to this song. He said he didn't change a thing about it that John Hartford hadn't put in, except to raise the tempo a bit. They became good friends and would appear together in concert and on TV. John on his banjo and Glen pickin his guitar.
Well, all I can say, is, once again, you two supremely, talented ladies never cease to amaze me with your musicality and your beautiful harmonies….I am 62 years old, and grew up as a Glen Campbell fan, watching any at all shows and specials of his own, and other stars and performers with my mother, who was also a huge fan of his, and I was blown away by his singing and his guitar playing from the beginning… I don’t know if you ladies ever saw the documentary on him some years ago, but even towards the end, before his mental faculties completely left him, when he performed one of his last shows, the dexterity with which he could still pick and play guitar was nothing short of a miracle… Thank you so much for this, because while I am not as familiar with John Hartford, this song has been a favorite of mine since I first heard Campbell do it probably a good 55 years ago 🧑🏻👩🏼🎼🎤🎤🎸🎸❤️❤️❤️❤️
❤ didnt recognize the title but immediately recognised as you started singing. Took me back to my childhood when (this and many similar songs) were the soundtrack to my early years 🥰
Nice job but a wonderful duo I have literally watched and followed for years. Thank for you excellent work! Keep up the energy and I like Ell going back to he real name. I tried the "stage name" thing during my early career radio dj days, and I was happy to drop it and get back to my real ID.
Love the way Toni gets that far away look in those gorgeous baby blues. EXCEPT, if you'd asked me what colour her eyes were, I wouldn't have said blue. ??????
