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| Released | 1990 |
| Genre | Country |
| Label | Liberty |
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Classics Collection was a Capitol Nashville compilation series, one issue of which contains a selection of Glen Campbell's hits from the sixties and seventies.
The Essential Glen Campbell Volume One is the first of a series of three albums which cover Glen Campbell's recordings for Capitol Records between 1962 and 1979. The tracks are presented in a non-chronological order. All three Essential CDs contain, next to single and albums tracks, previously unreleased recordings. On The Essential Glen Campbell Volume One, these are "Twelve Blues", "I Walk the Line" and "Blue Sky Shining", from a 1979 recording session led by Nelson Riddle. The Essential albums are also notable for containing some of the songs from The Artistry of Glen Campbell, the only original studio album by Glen Campbell that has not been released on CD or as a digital download. Included here are "Banjo Garden" and "Shenandoah".
The Essential Glen Campbell Volume Two is the second of a series of three albums which cover Glen Campbell's recordings for Capitol Records between 1962 and 1979. The tracks are presented in a non-chronological order. All three Essential CDs contain, next to single and albums tracks, previously unreleased recordings. On The Essential Glen Campbell Volume Two, these are "My Special Angel", an uptempo version of "Last Thing on My Mind", "Oh Boy" and "Don't It Make You Want To Go Home". The Essential albums are also notable for containing some of the songs from The Artistry of Glen Campbell, the only original studio album by Glen Campbell that has not been released on CD or as a digital download. Included here is "Greensleeves".
The Essential Glen Campbell Volume Three is the third of a series of three albums which cover Glen Campbell's recordings for Capitol Records from 1962-79. The tracks are presented in a non-chronological order. All three Essential CDs contain, next to single and albums tracks, previously unreleased recordings. On The Essential Glen Campbell Volume Three, these are "Beautiful Brown Eyes", "They'll Never Take Her Love from Me", "All the Way" and "Learnin' the Blues". The last two songs are from a 1979 recording session led by Nelson Riddle. The Essential albums are also notable for containing some of the songs from The Artistry of Glen Campbell, the only original studio album by Campbell that has not been released on CD or as a digital download. Included here is "Tequila".
Bloodline is the thirty-first studio album by American singer/guitarist Glen Campbell, released in 1976.
After Glen Campbell's Greatest Hits (1971), The Best of Glen Campbell was the second of official Capitol compilation albums by Glen Campbell and was released in 1976.
The compilation album The Very Best of Glen Campbell can be regarded as the CD release of the 1976 album The Best of Glen Campbell. The track listing however is quite different.
The Glen Campbell Collection was issued by Capitol Records and sold exclusively through a special TV offer.
The Capitol Years 65/77 is a compilation album by Glen Campbell, released in Europe only on February 22, 1999. The double CD set contains previously released, single and album tracks that Campbell recorded for Capitol Records between 1965 and 1977.
All the Best contains the majority of Glen Campbell's recordings that reached the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100. It was his best charting album since Southern Nights (1977).
Reunited with Jimmy Webb 1974–1988 is a compilation album of Glen Campbell recordings of Jimmy Webb songs, released in 1999, by Raven Records. The album contains the complete album Reunion: The Songs of Jimmy Webb (1974) and the Webb compositions from Bloodline (1976), Southern Nights (1977), Highwayman (1979), It's the World Gone Crazy (1981), Still Within the Sound of My Voice (1987), and Light Years (1988).
Rhinestone Cowboy/Bloodline The Lambert & Potter Sessions 1975–1976 covers the complete Rhinestone Cowboy and Bloodline albums plus three bonus tracks.
Southern Nights/Basic covers the complete Southern Nights and Basic albums and adds three bonus tracks.
The Great Hits of Glen Campbell was issued by Capitol Records and sold exclusively through a special TV offer.
All-Time Greatest Hits is a 3 disc compilation album issued in 1993 by CEMA Special Markets, containing single A-sides released between 1966 and 1978. This album is notable because of the presence of several single-only releases that have not been widely available on CD: "Oklahoma Sunday Morning" (1971), "Manhattan Kansas" (1972), "Wherefore and Why" (1973) and "God Must Have Blessed America" (1977).
The Glen Campbell Collection (1962–1989) Gentle on My Mind is a double CD containing 38 of the 74 singles released by Glen Campbell that charted on the Billboard Country Singles chart. "William Tell Overture" has been recorded more than once by Campbell but the version included here is a previously unreleased recording. "Bloodline" is an album track from the 1976 "Bloodline" album.
The Legacy (1961–2002) is a boxset covering four decades of recordings by Glen Campbell. The fourth CD is a compilation of live recordings.
Rhinestone Cowboy Live, on the Air & in the Studio is made up of songs performed on the TV show Melody Ranch around 1967, tracks from My Hits and Love Songs (1999) plus some previously unreleased tracks on the first disc, a selection of songs from Glen Campbell Live (1981) on the second, and a complete reissue of Glen Campbell Live! His Greatest Hits (1994) on the third disc.
Words and Music contains 10 songs from 1981's Glen Campbell Live and combines them with the only CD release thus far of the 1965 Country Shindig compilation album.
Greatest Hits contains remixes of Glen Campbell's biggest hits. The songs are remixed using purely the original recordings, bringing out other nuances in the arrangements. The last two tracks on this compilation, "Times Like These" and "These Days", were pulled off Campbell's recent studio album Meet Glen Campbell.
Glen Campbell's Twenty Golden Greats was Glen Campbell's biggest selling album in the UK, reaching the top of the UK Albums Chart and staying on the chart for 27 weeks.
