Glen Travis Campbell was an American singer, guitarist, songwriter, television host, and actor. He was best known for a series of hit songs in the 1960s and 1970s, and for hosting The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour on CBS television from 1969 until 1972. He released 64 albums in a career that spanned five decades, selling over 45 million records worldwide, including twelve gold albums, four platinum albums, and one double-platinum album.
The 10th Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 29, 1968, at Chicago, Los Angeles, Nashville and New York. They recognized accomplishments of musicians for the year 1967.
"Gentle on My Mind" is a song written by John Hartford, which won four 1968 Grammy Awards. Hartford won the award for Best Folk Performance and Best Country & Western Song (Songwriter). The other two awards Best Country & Western Solo Vocal Performance, Male and Best Country & Western Recording, went to American country music singer Glen Campbell for his version of Hartford's song.
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour is an American music and comedy television variety show hosted by singer Glen Campbell from January 29, 1969, to June 13, 1972, on CBS. He was offered the show after he hosted a 1968 summer replacement for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. Campbell used "Gentle on My Mind" as the theme song of the show.
This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in 1967.
Cycles is a studio album by American singer Frank Sinatra, released in 1968.
Bobbie Gentry and Glen Campbell is a studio album by American singer-songwriters Bobbie Gentry and Glen Campbell. It was released on September 16, 1968, by Capitol Records.
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".
Meet Glen Campbell is the sixtieth album by American singer/guitarist Glen Campbell, released in 2008. In 2012, Capitol Records reissued it with 5 Bonus Tracks; 3 Live tracks from the 2008 AOL Sessions, along with new 2008 remixes of the tracks "Gentle on My Mind" & "Galveston".
Gentle on My Mind is the sixth album by American singer-guitarist Glen Campbell, released in 1967 by Capitol Records.
Gentle on My Mind is a compilation album of singles and album tracks by Glen Campbell released on Capitol records between 1963 and 1971. This album should not be confused with the 1967 Capitol studio album Gentle on My Mind.
Portrait is a 1968 Glen Campbell compilation album manufactured for the European market, containing most of his country music hits up to that early point in his career, plus some album and single tracks.
The Glen Campbell Collection was issued by Capitol Records and sold exclusively through a special TV offer.
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.
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.
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.
American country music singer Glen Campbell released fifteen video albums and was featured in twenty-one music videos in his lifetime. His first two music videos, "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" and "Wichita Lineman", were directed by Gene Weed in 1967 and 1968 respectively. Campbell released his final music video, "I'm Not Gonna Miss You", in 2014 to coincide with the release of the documentary Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me.
Alfred V. De Lory was an American record producer, arranger, conductor and session musician. He was the producer and arranger of a series of worldwide hits by Glen Campbell in the 1960s, including John Hartford's "Gentle on My Mind", Jimmy Webb's "By the Time I Get to Phoenix", "Wichita Lineman" and "Galveston". He was also a member of the 1960s Los Angeles session musicians known as The Wrecking Crew, and inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in 2007.
"Tomorrow Never Comes" is a 1945 song by Ernest Tubb, composed by Tubb with lyrics by Johnny Bond. The song was recorded at least three times by Glen Campbell.
Wild Weekend is a studio album by American country singer-songwriter Bill Anderson. It was released in May 1968 on Decca Records and was produced by Owen Bradley. The record was Anderson's ninth studio release to be issued during his recording career. It reached peak positions on the Billboard country albums chart and also produced two singles that became major hits.
