Posted on 04/23/2022 5:58:52 AM PDT by FLNittany
Find attached a slowed down version of Glen singing Galveston w/ Jimmy Webb accompanying. The two of them together were nothing short of amazing.
Glen Travis Campbell (born April 22, 1936) is an American rock and country music singer, guitarist, songwriter, television host, and occasional actor. He is best known for a series of hits 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 through June 1972.
During his 50 years in show business, Campbell has released more than 70 albums. He has sold 45 million records and accumulated 12 RIAA Gold albums, four Platinum albums and one Double-platinum album. He has placed a total of 80 different songs on either the Billboard Country Chart, Billboard Hot 100, or the Adult Contemporary Chart, of which 29 made the top 10 and of which nine reached number one on at least one of those charts. Campbell's hits include his recordings of John Hartford's "Gentle on My Mind"; Jimmy Webb's "By the Time I Get to Phoenix", "Wichita Lineman", and "Galveston"; Larry Weiss's "Rhinestone Cowboy"; and Allen Toussaint's "Southern Nights".
Campbell made history in 1967 by winning four Grammys total, in the country and pop categories.[2] For "Gentle on My Mind", he received two awards in country and western, "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" did the same in pop. Three of his early hits later won Grammy Hall of Fame Awards (2000, 2004, 2008), while Campbell himself won the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012. He owns trophies for Male Vocalist of the Year from both the Country Music Association (CMA) and the Academy of Country Music (ACM), and took the CMA's top award as 1968 Entertainer of the Year. In 1969, actor John Wayne picked Campbell to play alongside him in the film True Grit, which gave Campbell a Golden Globe nomination for Most Promising Newcomer. Campbell sang the title song which was nominated for an Academy Award.
Alzheimer's diagnosis...
In June 2011, Campbell announced he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease six months earlier. According to his family, symptoms of the disease had been occurring for years, becoming more and more evident as the years progressed.
Campbell went on a final "Goodbye Tour", with three of his children joining him in his backup band; his final show was on November 30, 2012, in Napa, California.[During the tour's concerts and rehearsals, Campbell would often forget which songs he was supposed to play, repeating them after finishing a performance. He also frequently had to be reminded that he did have the disease, and relied on a teleprompter to remember the lyrics to most songs. Newer songs from his later albums had to be scrapped altogether, as Campbell struggled to remember the chords and lyrics for these. He performed "Rhinestone Cowboy" as a goodbye at the 2012 Grammy Awards ceremony held on February 12, 2012, his final televised on-stage performance.
For your enjoyment... one of Glen Campbell’s greatest concert performances — Playing the William Tell overture on guitar with a full orchestra backing him up in honor of The Lone Ranger:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GUBhE00h9U0
Do what you gotta do....
https://youtu.be/trvu8BLRjOU
Well okay. Me neither.
NIH Director Francis Collins is in the video. Nice to know he didn't have anything more important to do.
Sorry. Feeling party pooperish tonight.
Glen Campbell is absolutely a massively underrated guitarist.
Well, the song is about his Alzheimers and the fact that he won't miss the ones he loves. He'd love to, but he cant. Here is a link to the song, if you'd like to hear it:
He certainly was - in the Alice interview posted above, he spells it out - the respect. As far as actually doing it, he did it. From Shin Dig to the ND Symphony - He never missed a note. Clapton and Hendrix would bow to guys like him and Roy Clark and Jerry Reed. They could never have done what they did.
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