The Band Perry - Gentle On My Mind

So what was Glen Campbell’s breakthrough hit? The answer is as clear as mud. At first we at the JW facebook team thought the John Hartford penned “Gentle on My Mind”, which we’ll share today, took the prize. This week in 1967 was the sixth of a twelve week run for “Gentle” on the Billboard country charts. But it peaked at #30, and two prior songs by Glen faired better —1962’s “Kentucky Means Paradise”, written by Merle Travis, a #20 Country charter w The Green River Boys, and “Burning Bridges”,

Watch Glen Campbell Astonish a 1999 Gathering of Fellow Country Greats with This Performance of “Gentle on My Mind”

Gentle On My Mind acoustic solo TAB (PDF)