Glen Campbell - Songs

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Glen Campbell (April 22, 1936 - August 8, 2017) was a highly acclaimed country singer, songwriter, and guitarist with a tremendous crossover appeal who became one of the top performing artists of the 1960s and 1970s. In his over 50 years in show business, he was also a highly sought-after session guitarist, popular TV host, and movie actor.

Born Glen Travis Campbell in Billstown, Arkansas into an impoverished but musical family, he began playing the guitar at age four and was performing on local radio stations by the time he was six. He started out in the late 1950s as a session guitarist, and throughout most of the 1960s, he recorded with bands and artists as varied in genre as The Beach Boys, The Champs, Nat "King" Cole, Bobby Darin, Merle Haggard, The Monkees, Elvis Presley, Sagittarius, and Frank Sinatra. Widely known for his guitar virtuosity, he became part of an elite group of Los Angeles-based studio musicians later known as the Wrecking Crew who backed numerous hits of the 1960s and 1970s.

Glen Campbell had his first charting song in 1961 with "Turn Around, Look At Me" which was followed by a long string of hits on the Pop/Rock, Country, and Adult Contemporary charts that also included "By The Time I Get To Phoenix" (1967), "I Wanna Live" (1968), "Gentle On My Mind" (1968), "Wichita Lineman" (1968), "Galveston" (1969), "Try A Little Kindness" (1969), "Rhinestone Cowboy" (1975), and "Southern Nights" (1977), the latter two of which topped all three charts. He also recorded several hit duets with Bobbie Gentry that included "Let It Be Me" (1969).

From 1968-1972, he hosted the popular TV variety show, "The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour." He also acted in a number of movies that included "True Grit" (1969) in which he co-starred with John Wayne and sang the hit title song. Over the years, he continued to record and tour actively and released over 70 albums. After being diagnosed with Alzheimer's in 2011, he released "Ghost On The Canvas" and launched "The Glen Campbell Goodbye Tour." This trek, which continued through late 2012, was the main subject of the award-winning 2014 documentary, "Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me." In early 2017, Campbell released his final studio album, "Adios," which was recorded in 2012-2013 after his Goodbye Tour.

Glen Campbell was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2005, and over his long career, he received multiple Grammys, including the Lifetime Achievement Award (2012), as well as numerous honors from the Academy of Country Music, the Country Music Association, the American Music Awards, and the GMA Dove Awards.

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Glen Campbell And Bobbie Gentry

Glen Campbell

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