On this day (August 26) in 1975. Glen Campbell was atop the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. The song spent three nonconsecutive weeks atop the country chart. Additionally, it was a crossover hit, ...
This week in 1968: Dr. Spock and three others receive two-year prison terms for counseling draft evasion; Moscow begins commercial flights to the United States; a National Airlines DC-8 with 64 ...
Fifty years ago, Glen Campbell was riding high with his hit song “Rhinestone Cowboy.” The song was at No. 2, right under David Bowie’s “Fame” on the Billboard Hot 100 charts, in mid-September 1975, ...
On April 11 1966, Glen Campbell was drafted in as a last minute rhythm guitarist for a recording session with Frank Sinatra. Unable to believe that he was in the presence of his idol, he spent much of ...
When songwriter Jimmy Webb left an unfinished version of the song "Wichita Lineman" for Glen Campbell to listen to, he never got a response and assumed it was a no-go. But when he eventually spoke to ...
In the cultural landscape of midcentury America, few transformations were as subtly seismic as the slow, sometimes reluctant, elevation of country music into the national consciousness. The genre, ...
Some musicians are prolific songwriters, others are technically proficient instrumentalists, but country legend Glen Campbell just so happened to be both, as he casually proves in a jaw-dropping ...
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