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+----------------+------------------------------------------+----------------+ | | | Artist : Glen Campbell | | Album : Meet Glen Campbell-(Advance) | | Bitrate : VBR kbps | | | +-------------------------------[Release Info]-------------------------------+ | | | Label : Capital Records | | Year : 2008 | | Genre : Country | | Rip date : Jul-16-2008 | | Store date : Aug-19-2008 | | Size : 49,6 MB | | | +--------------------------------[Track List]--------------------------------+ | | |Track Listing: | | | | 01 - Sing 03:45 | | 02 - Walls 03:32 | | 03 - Angel Dream 02:29 | | 04 - Times Like These 03:28 | | 05 - These Days 03:30 | | 06 - Sadly Beautiful 03:20 | | 07 - All I Want Is You 04:15 | | 08 - Jesus 03:11 | | 09 - Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life) 02:36 | | 10 - Grow Old With Me 03:39 | | | | ───── | | 33:45 min | | | +-------------------------------[Release Notes]------------------------------+ | | | Enjoy... new album of covers from some of your favorite bands! | | | | It isn't accurate to call Glen Campbell "pure country," but his smooth | | fusion of country mannerisms and pop melodies and production techniques | | made him one of the most popular country musicians of the late '60s and | | '70s. Campbell was one of the leading figures of country-pop during that | | era, racking up a steady stream of Top Ten singles, highlighted by | | classics like "By the Time I Get to Phoenix," "I Wanna Live," "Wichita | | Lineman," "Galveston," "Rhinestone Cowboy," and "Southern Nights." | | Boasting Campbell's smooth vocals and layered arrangements, where steel | | guitars bounced off sweeping strings, those songs not only became | | country hits, they crossed over to the pop charts as well, which was | | appropriate, since that is where he began his musical career. | | Originally, he was a Los Angeles session musician, playing on hits by | | the Monkees, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, and Merle Haggard. By the end | | of the '60s, he had become a successful solo artist, and that success | | would not abate until the late '80s, when he stopped having radio hits | | and began concentrating on live performances at his theater in Branson. | | | | Campbell was born and raised in Delight, AR, where he received his first | | guitar when he was four years old. Learning the instrument from various | | relatives, he played consistently throughout his childhood, eventually | | gravitating toward jazz players like Barney Kessel and Django Reinhardt. | | While he was learning guitar, he also sang in a local church, where he | | developed his vocal skills. By the time he was 14, he had begun | | performing with a number of country bands in the Arkansas, Texas, and | | New Mexico area, including his uncle's group, the Dick Bills Band. When | | he was 18, he formed his own country band, the Western Wranglers, and | | began touring the South with the group. Four years later, Campbell moved | | to Los Angeles, CA, where he became a session musician. | | | | Shortly after arriving in California, Campbell earned the reputation of | | being an excellent guitarist, playing on records by Bobby Darin and Rick | | Nelson. In 1960, he briefly joined the instrumental rock & roll group | | the Champs, who had the hit single "Tequila" two years earlier. The | | following year, he released his debut single, "Turn Around, Look at Me," | | on the small Crest label; the single reached number 62 later in the | | year. By the summer of 1962, he had released "Too Late to Worry ù Too | | Blue to Cry" on Capitol Records; the single only spent two weeks on the | | charts, peaking at 76. While he was tentatively pursuing a solo career, | | Campbell continued to play professionally, most notably for Elvis | | Presley and Dean Martin. Also in 1962, he played guitar and sang on | | "Kentucky Means Paradise," a single by the one-off group the Green River | | Boys, who released an album, Big Bluegrass Special. "Kentucky Means | | Paradise" became a hit on the country charts, climbing to number 20. | | Instead of pursuing a full-fledged country career after the single's | | release, Campbell returned to studio work, and over the next two years | | he played on sessions by Frank Sinatra ("Strangers in the Night"), Merle | | Haggard ("The Legend of Bonnie and Clyde"), the Monkees ("I'm a | | Believer"), the Association, and the Mamas & the Papas, among many | | others. | | | | Following Brian Wilson's breakdown and retirement from the road in 1965, | | Glen Campbell became a touring member of the Beach Boys for several | | months. At the end of his tenure as the group's temporary bassist, the | | Beach Boys offered him a permanent spot in the band, but he turned them | | down when they wouldn't allow him to have an equal cut of the group's | | royalties. A few months after rejecting the band's offer, the Beach | | Boys' record label, Capitol, offered Campbell a full-fledged contract. | | His first release under his new long-term Capitol contract was a version | | of Buffy Sainte-Marie's "The Universal Soldier," which peaked at number | | 45. For much of 1966, he continued to pursue studio work, but he | | released "Burning Bridges" toward the end of the year, and it climbed to | | number 18 on the country charts early in 1967. | | | | During 1967, Capitol pushed Campbell as a country recording artist, and | | their breakthrough arrived in the late summer when his folky country-pop | | rendition of John Hartford's "Gentle on My Mind" became a Top 40 hit on | | both the country and pop charts. By the end of the year, he had released | | a cover of Jimmy Webb's "By the Time I Get to Phoenix," which reached | | number two on the country charts, and number 26 on the pop charts. Early | | in 1968, "Gentle on My Mind" won the Grammy Award for Best Country & | | Western Recording of 1967. Campbell's success continued in 1968, as "I | | Wanna Live" became his first number one hit and "Dreams of the Everyday | | Housewife" reached number three. The following year, CBS television | | hired him to host the variety show The Glen Campbell Good Time Hour, | | which became quite popular and helped establish him as not only a | | country star, but a pop music superstar. | | | | Throughout the late '60s and early '70s, Campbell continued to rack up | | hit singles, including the number one hits "Wichita Lineman" (1968) and | | "Galveston" (1969), plus the Top Ten singles "Try a Little Kindness" | | (1969), "Honey Come Back" (1970), "Everything a Man Could Ever Need" | | (1970), and "It's Only Make Believe" (1970). In 1968, he began recording | | duets with Bobbie Gentry, and they had hit singles with their versions | | of two Everly Brothers songs: "Let It Be Me," which reached 14 in 1969, | | and "All I Have to Do Is Dream," which peaked at number six in 1970. | | Also in 1969, he began a film career, appearing in the John Wayne movie | | True Grit that year and Norwood the following year. | | | | By 1972, Campbell's record sales started slipping. After "Manhattan | | Kansas" reached number six that year, he had trouble having Top 40 hits | | for the next two years. Furthermore, his television show was canceled. | | As his career slowed, he began sinking into drug and alcohol addiction, | | which continued even through his mid-'70s revival. In 1975, he returned | | to the Top Ten with "Rhinestone Cowboy," a huge hit that reached number | | one on both the country and pop charts. Over the next two years, he had | | a number of Top Ten country hits, including "Country Boy (You Got Your | | Feet in L.A.)" and "Don't Pull Your Love"/"Then You Can Tell Me | | Goodbye," which also reached the pop charts. In 1977, he had his final | | number one hit with "Southern Nights," which topped both the country and | | pop charts. | | | | Following the success of "Southern Nights" and its follow-up, | | "Sunflower," Campbell stopped reaching the country Top Ten with | | regularity, yet he had a string of lesser hits and was an immensely | | popular performer in concert and television. During the mid-'80s, he | | experienced a brief commercial revival, as the singles "Faithless Love," | | "A Lady Like You," and "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle" all reached the | | country Top Ten. By that time, he had begun to clean up his act. Over | | the course of the mid-'80s, he kicked his addictions to drugs and | | alcohol and became a born-again Christian. Appropriately, he began | | recording inspirational albums, yet he didn't abandon country music. As | | late as 1989, Campbell's smooth, synth-laden contemporary country-pop | | was reaching the country Top Ten; his last two Top Ten country hits were | | "I Have You" (1988) and "She's Gone, Gone, Gone" (1989). | | | | Campbell began recording less frequently in the early '90s, especially | | since he could no longer reach the charts and the radio, since they were | | dominated by new country artists. Over the course of the decade, he | | gradually moved into semi-retirement, concentrating on golf and | | performing at his Goodtime Theater in Branson, MO. In 1994, he published | | his autobiography, Rhinestone Cowboy. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
