Light Years | ||||
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Released | August 1988 | |||
Recorded | 1988, Soundstage Studios, Nashville, TN | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Label | MCA | |||
Producer | Jimmy Bowen Glen Campbell | |||
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Light Years is the forty-fourth album by American singer-guitarist Glen Campbell, released in 1988 by MCA. The album features eight songs written by Jimmy Webb, including the singles "Light Years" and "More Than Enough". [1]
All songs were written by Jimmy Webb, except where indicated.
Chart (1988) | Peak position |
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U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums | 58 |
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US Country | ||
1988 | "Light Years" | 35 |
1989 | "More Than Enough" | 47 |
Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind is a studio album by American singer/producer Linda Ronstadt, released in October 1989 by Elektra Records. Produced by Peter Asher, the album features several duets with singer Aaron Neville — two of which earned Grammy Awards — and several songs written by Jimmy Webb and Karla Bonoff. The album was a major success internationally. It sold over three million copies and was certified Triple Platinum in the United States alone.
Prisoner In Disguise (1975) is Linda Ronstadt's sixth solo LP release and her second for the label Asylum Records. It followed Ronstadt's multi-platinum breakthrough album, Heart Like a Wheel, which became her first of three #1 albums on the Billboard album chart in early 1975.
Reunion: The Songs of Jimmy Webb is the twenty-seventh album by American singer and guitarist Glen Campbell, released in 1974.
Old Home Town is the thirty-ninth album by American singer/guitarist Glen Campbell, released in 1982. It was his first album released on Atlantic Records after twenty years with Capitol Records.
It's the World Gone Crazy is the thirty-seventh album by American singer/guitarist Glen Campbell, released in 1981. The lead single, "Any Which Way You Can", was the title song to the 1980 movie Any Which Way You Can, the sequel to Every Which Way But Loose.
Highwayman is the thirty-fifth album by American singer/guitarist Glen Campbell, released in 1979.
Still Within the Sound of My Voice is the forty-third album by American singer/guitarist Glen Campbell, released in 1987. This was his debut album with MCA Records.
No More Night is the forty-first album by American singer/guitarist Glen Campbell, released in 1985.
Southern Nights is the thirty-second album by American singer/guitarist Glen Campbell, released in 1977.
Live at the Royal Festival Hall is the thirty-third album by American singer and musician Glen Campbell, released in 1977 by Capitol Records.
Unconditional Love is the forty-seventh album by American singer/guitarist Glen Campbell, released in 1991. The title track "Unconditional Love" was the first single, reaching No. 27 on the Hot Country Singles chart, while "Living in a House Full of Love" was the second single. The album itself did not chart in the US, but did chart briefly in New Zealand reaching No. 48.
Show Me Your Way is the forty-eighth album by American singer/guitarist Glen Campbell, released in 1991.
Walkin' in the Sun is the forty-sixth album by American singer/guitarist Glen Campbell, released in 1990. It includes the single "She's Gone Gone Gone", Campbell's last Top 10 hit on the country music charts. The single itself was released via Universal Records, a short-lived label founded by Jimmy Bowen, instead. This album, however, marked his return to Capitol Records.
Glen Campbell Live! His Greatest Hits is the fifty-fourth album by American singer/guitarist Glen Campbell, released in 1994.
Glen Campbell in Concert with the South Dakota Symphony is the fifty-eighth album by American singer/guitarist Glen Campbell, released in 2001. Recorded for the PBS special "Glen Campbell – In Concert", the concert registration was released on video, CD and DVD.
Home at Last combines No More Night (1985) and Favorite Hymns (1989). As No More Night was not released on CD at the time, this compilation album is the only available CD release of that album.
I Should Be with You is an album by American country music artist Steve Wariner. It was released on March 7, 1988 by MCA Records. It includes the singles "Baby I'm Yours", "I Should Be With You" and "Hold On ", which reached #2, #2, and #6, respectively, on the Billboard country charts. The album peaked at #20 on Top Country Albums. "More Than Enough" was recorded the same year by Glen Campbell on Light Years, also produced by Jimmy Bowen for MCA.
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.
Travellers in Space and Time is the seventh studio album by The Apples in Stereo released in 2010. It was the first album by the band to feature new drummer John Dufilho, as well as the first to cite Bill Doss and John Ferguson as permanent band members. It is heavily influenced by the Electric Light Orchestra, especially their science-fiction concept album Time.
Glen Campbell and Jimmy Webb: In Session is the sixty-second album by American singer-guitarist Glen Campbell—a collaborative album with Jimmy Webb—released in September 2012 by Fantasy Records. The album and its accompanying DVD were filmed, taped, and recorded live on December 9, 1988 in the Hamilton, Ontario studios of CHCH-TV as part of the Canadian concert series In Session.