In most cases, we can point to a specific reason why a deserving song never made the Top 10--lack of promotion, stiff competition out at the time, etc. In other situations, it remains a mystery. The featured song this week in the popular Unknown/Underrated* category is pretty much considered a classic these days. Yet in 1967, it only reached a peak position of #26. Glen Campbell had not had a hit yet, and perhaps music directors at radio stations simply did not recognize his talent yet. In any case, obviously it is one of The Top Unknown/Underrated Songs of the Rock Era*:
"By The Time I Get To Phoenix"
Glen Campbell
Lyrics and Music by Jimmy Webb
By the time I get to Phoenix
She'll be rising
She'll find the note I left hanging on her door
She'll laugh, when she reads the part that says I'm leaving
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 ringing
Off the wall, that's all
By the time I make Oklahoma
She'll be sleeping
She'll turn softly and call my name out low
And she'll cry, just to think, I'd really leave her
Though time and time I've tried to tell her so
She just didn't know,
I would really go
She'll be rising
She'll find the note I left hanging on her door
She'll laugh, when she reads the part that says I'm leaving
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 ringing
Off the wall, that's all
By the time I make Oklahoma
She'll be sleeping
She'll turn softly and call my name out low
And she'll cry, just to think, I'd really leave her
Though time and time I've tried to tell her so
She just didn't know,
I would really go
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