Glen Campbell

Glen Campbell ( born April 22, 1936 in Delight, Arkansas) is an American country singer and guitarist, a proven track record over the Country genre beyond.

  • 4.1 albums
  • 4.2 Singles

Life

Campbell learned as a young self-taught playing guitar without being able to read music. At 18, he joined the " Western Wranglers " and went on tour with them. In 1958 he moved to Los Angeles and began working as a studio musician. In a few years, Campbell has been called one of the most booked and highest-paid studio musicians from Los Angeles within a group of musicians, the Wrecking Crew. He worked for Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, the Beach Boys, the Monkees and many other sizes of this time. In addition, he published several albums and singles, although they were quite unsuccessful. His first LP was called Big Bluegrass Special and appeared in the year 1962. 1964 and early 1965, Campbell went with the Beach Boys on tour, replacing Brian Wilson, who wanted to escape the presence of stress. Campbell was particularly suitable for this, as he had played the songs of the Beach Boys already in the studio and could also sing Wilson's high falsetto voice. The call to join the band, but he refused because he could earn more money as a studio musician and also dreamed of a career as a soloist. In gratitude for the very short-term substitute service Wilson wrote and produced several songs for Campbell, including Guess I'm Dumb. The song could be heard in the backing vocals Wilson himself and The Honeys, the jump was denied in the charts.

Career

It was not until 1968, Campbell his work as a studio musician and turned a catchy country-pop to. In this period he also had his biggest hits, which mainly stemmed from the pen of Jimmy Webb. By the Time I Get to Phoenix, Wichita Lineman, Dreams of the Everyday Housewife and Galveston. These songs made ​​him well known and established Campbell's own sound: " classic string arrangements, melodic, melodious guitar, mid-tempo, with a sense of dynamism, but even these serene, natural, warm -sounding voice with a touch of melancholy ."

In the same year he was moderator of the Smothers Brothers TV show. As he led them convincing, he got his own TV show, entitled The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour. This ran weekly from 1969 to 1972. On the height of his popularity, appeared in 1970 his biography. During the 1970s, Campbell released a number of singles, including the hits Rhinestone Cowboy, Southern Nights and Sunflower. In addition, he starred in several films with.

In the late 1970s began the descent. Campbell succeeded with his new pieces no more chart success. He fell into depression and began using drugs. In 1989, when Campbell was fully clean again, he made a comeback. With songs like She's Gone, Gone, Gone he made it again into the top 10 on the country charts. In the 1990s, he confined himself to play concerts, and hardly published new material. But his autobiography was published under the title Rhinestone Cowboy.

His most last comeback in the charts he had in 2002 with a new recording of his own hits Rhinestone Cowboy, which was produced by the British dance production duo Rikki & Daz. For negative headlines Campbell made ​​in 2003, when he was drunk stopped and detained at the wheel of his car. Glen Campbell is married in fourth marriage to Kimberly Woollen and father of six children.

2008 Campbell reported unexpectedly back from the musical abstinence. With the album Meet Glen Campbell, released in August in Germany, interpreted the already 72 -year-old Campbell songs by rock bands like Green Day and Foo Fighters. At the same time, he returned to his longtime label Capitol.

In February 2011, Campbell announced his last studio album, Ghost on the Canvas, and for the fall of a farewell tour. The reasons for this were in June 2011, then known: With Glen Campbell Alzheimer's disease had been diagnosed.

Awards (selection)

Movies

Discography

Albums

  • Glen Campbell / Portrait - With recordings 1962-1967
  • Big Bluegrass Special ( 1962)
  • Gentle on My Mind (1967 )
  • Hey Little One ( 1968)
  • By the Time I Get to Phoenix (1968 )
  • A New Place in the Sun (1968 )
  • Bobbie Gentry and Glen Campbell ( with Bobbie Gentry 1968)
  • Wichita Lineman (1968 )
  • Galveston (1969 )
  • Glen Campbell - Live ( 1969)
  • This Is Glen Campbell (1969 ) Ember Records
  • Try a Little Kindness (1970 )
  • Oh Happy Day (1970 )
  • The Glen Campbell Goodtime Album ( 1970)
  • Glen Campbell 's Greatest Hits (1971 )
  • The Last Time I Saw Her ( 1971)
  • Anne Murray / Glen Campbell ( with Anne Murray 1971)
  • Glen Travis Campbell ( 1972)
  • I Knew Jesus ( Before He Was a Star ) ( 1973)
  • Reunion ( 1974)
  • Rhinestone Cowboy (1975 )
  • Bloodline (1976 )
  • 20 Golden Greats (UK compilation 1976)
  • The Best of Glen Campbell ( U.S. Compilation 1976)
  • Southern Nights (1977 )
  • Basic (1978 )
  • It's the World Gone Crazy ( 1981)
  • Old Home Town ( 1982)
  • Letter to Home (1984 )
  • Just a Matter of Time (1985 )
  • No More Night ( 1987)
  • Still Within the Sound of My Voice (1988 )
  • Light Years ( 1988)
  • Walkin ' in the Sun (1990 )
  • Unconditional Love (1991 )
  • Somebody Like that (1993 )
  • The Boy in Me ( 1994)
  • In Concert ( 2001) ( with The South Dakota Symphony )
  • 24 Songs of Faith, Hope & Love (2003)
  • Meet Glen Campbell ( 2008)
  • Ghost on the Canvas (2011)
  • See You There ( 2013)

Singles

  • Too Late to Worry - Too Blue to Cry (1962 )
  • The Universal Soldier ( 1965)
  • Burning Bridges (1966 )
  • Gentle on my Mind (1967 )
  • By the Time I Get to Phoenix (1967 )
  • Hey Little One ( 1968)
  • I Want to Live (1968 )
  • Dreams of the Everyday Housewife (1968 )
  • Mornin ' Glory (Duet with Bobbie Gentry 1968)
  • Wichita Lineman (1969 )
  • Let It Be Me (Duet with Bobbie Gentry 1969)
  • Galveston (1969 )
  • Where's the Playground, Susie (1969 )
  • True Grit (1969 )
  • Try a Little Kindness (1969 )
  • All I Have to Do Is Dream ( 1970)
  • Oh Happy Day (1970 )
  • Honey Come Back (1970 )
  • Everything a Man Could Ever Need (1970 )
  • It's Only Make Believe (1970 )
  • Dream Baby (1971 )
  • The Last Time I Saw Her ( 1971)
  • I Say a Little Prayer / By the Time I Get to Phoenix ( duet with Anne Murray 1971)
  • I Will Never Pass This Way Again ( 1972)
  • One Last Time (1972 )
  • I Knew Jesus ( Before He Was a Star ) ( 1973)
  • Houston ( I'm Comin 'to See You ) ( 1974)
  • Rhinestone Cowboy (1975 )
  • Country Boy ( You Got Your Feet in L.A. ) ( 1975)
  • Do not Pull Your Love / Then You Can Tell Me (1976 )
  • Southern Nights (1977 )
  • Sunflower (1977 )
  • Another Fine Mess (1978 )
  • You Can Fool (1978 )
  • Somethin '' bout You Baby I Like ( duet with Rita Coolidge 1980)
  • Any Which Way You Can ( from the film Full Throttle to San Fernando 1980)
  • I Do not Want to Know Your Name ( 1981)
  • I Love My Truck ( 1981)

Swell

Delight (Arkansas) Country music Academy of Country Music Awards Country Music Association Awards 10th Annual Grammy Awards True Grit (1969 film) Integrated Authority File
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