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Glen Campbell's Greatest Hits | |
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Released | February, 1971 |
Genre | Country |
Label | Capitol |
Producer | Al De Lory |
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Glen Campbell's Greatest Hits was the first official Capitol compilation album by Glen Campbell and was released in 1971. The Best of Glen Campbell followed in 1976, covering his later hits in addition to five on this compilation.
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 a music and comedy variety show called The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour on CBS television, from January 1969 until June 1972. He released over 70 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.
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.
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Leon Russell was an American musician and songwriter who was involved with numerous bestselling pop music records during his 60-year career. His genres included pop, country, rock, folk, gospel, bluegrass, rhythm and blues, folk rock, blues rock, surf, standards, and Tulsa Sound.
Album - Billboard (United States)
Chart | Entry date | Peak position | No. of weeks |
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Billboard 200 | 1971 | 39 | 27 |
Billboard Country Albums | 04/10/1971 | 3(1) | 35 |
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 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".
It's Just a Matter of Time is the forty-second album by American singer/guitarist Glen Campbell, released in 1985.
Galveston is the thirteenth album by American singer-guitarist Glen Campbell, released in 1969 by Capitol Records. The album was a major hit for Campbell, reaching number one on the Billboard Country Albums chart, and generated the number one hit single on the Hot Country Singles and Easy Listening charts, "Galveston", written by Jimmy Webb, who also wrote the follow-up single, "Where's the Playground Susie", which peaked at number 28 on the Hot Country Singles chart, and number 10 on the Easy Listening chart.
A New Place in the Sun is the ninth album by American singer-guitarist Glen Campbell, released in 1968 by Capitol Records.
Burning Bridges is the fifth album by American singer-guitarist Glen Campbell, released in 1967 by Capitol Records.
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Album is the 19th album by American singer/guitarist Glen Campbell, released in 1970.
Oh Happy Day is the seventeenth album by American singer/guitarist Glen Campbell, released in 1970.
Anne Murray / Glen Campbell is an album by American singer Glen Campbell and Canadian singer Anne Murray, released in 1971. The album contained both new material, and duet versions of songs each artist had recorded individually, as well as an early version of "You're Easy to Love", which later became a hit for Hank Snow, the standard "Canadian Sunset", and Brotherhood of Man's 1970 hit "United We Stand".
Try a Little Kindness is the sixteenth album by American singer/guitarist Glen Campbell, released in 1970.
Norwood is the eighteenth album by American singer/guitarist Glen Campbell, released in 1970. The album is a soundtrack album from Campbell's 1970 film Norwood.
Glen Campbell Live is the fifteenth album by American singer/guitarist Glen Campbell, released in 1969. It features all of his hits up to that point, with the exceptions of the noticeably absent "Galveston" and "Wichita Lineman".
That Christmas Feeling is the eleventh album by American singer-guitarist Glen Campbell, released in 1968 by Capitol Records.
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.
Portrait is an early (1968) compilation album manufactured for the European market containing most of Glen Campbell's Country hits up to that point plus some album and single tracks.
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.
Limited Collector's Edition is a compilation of single and album tracks recorded by Glen Campbell between 1962 and 1970.
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.
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.