One Thin Dime
One Thin Dime
Originally shared by Randy Culler
from Jim Eanes:
It was back in the Spring of 1969.....Glen Campbell, who had the number one TV show in the country and a string of hit records, had finished his sold-out concert at a huge coliseum in Tidewater Virginia, been whisked off the stage, into a car and Frank Mull drove us out the back doors and down the street before the band finished the last notes of the last song....
Frank dropped Glen and me at the back door of the hotel so we could go up the back way to his suite and avoid the large crowd gathered in the lobby awaiting Glen's return from the concert....just inside the door was a candy machine....Glen stopped, looked at me kind of sadly and said 'I sure would like to have a candy bar but I don't have any money'. Glen was young then and built like a prize fighter and his stage costume had been designed to fit tightly to show off his build....so it had no pockets. I handed him a dime, he got his candy bar, we got on the Service elevator and went up to his suite to await the rest of his troupe.
'When the guys get here I'll pay you back', he said. 'Are you kidding,' I answered, 'no way....I can go thru the rest of my life saying Glen Campbell owes me a dime'. He got a good laugh out of that and later when he was leaving to catch a plane back to Hollywood (he had to be on the set of 'True Grit' early the next morning) he yelled at me 'don't forget, I still owe you a dime'. Like I would ever forget!
Now, after a long illness, Glen has gone to his reward....folks will be playing his music and telling stories about him for a few days and then he will be largely forgotten.....but I won't forget....he still owes me a dime....but in return I've got a million dollars worth of music and memories....
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Originally shared by Randy Culler
from Jim Eanes:
It was back in the Spring of 1969.....Glen Campbell, who had the number one TV show in the country and a string of hit records, had finished his sold-out concert at a huge coliseum in Tidewater Virginia, been whisked off the stage, into a car and Frank Mull drove us out the back doors and down the street before the band finished the last notes of the last song....
Frank dropped Glen and me at the back door of the hotel so we could go up the back way to his suite and avoid the large crowd gathered in the lobby awaiting Glen's return from the concert....just inside the door was a candy machine....Glen stopped, looked at me kind of sadly and said 'I sure would like to have a candy bar but I don't have any money'. Glen was young then and built like a prize fighter and his stage costume had been designed to fit tightly to show off his build....so it had no pockets. I handed him a dime, he got his candy bar, we got on the Service elevator and went up to his suite to await the rest of his troupe.
'When the guys get here I'll pay you back', he said. 'Are you kidding,' I answered, 'no way....I can go thru the rest of my life saying Glen Campbell owes me a dime'. He got a good laugh out of that and later when he was leaving to catch a plane back to Hollywood (he had to be on the set of 'True Grit' early the next morning) he yelled at me 'don't forget, I still owe you a dime'. Like I would ever forget!
Now, after a long illness, Glen has gone to his reward....folks will be playing his music and telling stories about him for a few days and then he will be largely forgotten.....but I won't forget....he still owes me a dime....but in return I've got a million dollars worth of music and memories....
https://www.facebook.com/jim.eanes.5
https://youtu.be/XUAiWDRh5tU
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