Glen Campbell - Love Songs '1990

Tracks list

Tracklist:

1. Honey Come Back (03:02)
2. By The Time I Get To Phoenix (02:43)
3. Country Girl (02:52)
4. Gentle On My Mind (03:08)
5. Reason To Believe (02:19)
6. One Last Time (03:19)
7. (I'm Getting) Used To The Crying (02:48)
8. It's Only Make Believe (02:26)
9. How High Did We Go (03:05)
10. If This Is Love (02:09)
11. Love Is Not A Game (02:13)
12. For My Woman's Love (03:10)
13. Last Thing On My Mind (03:54)
14. Everything A Man Could Ever Need (02:31)
15. Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream) (02:32)
16. Hey Little One (02:33)
17. Your Cheatin' Heart (03:18)
18. This Is Sarah's Song (02:37)
19. Let Go (03:30)
20. God Only Knows (03:20)


 moreCampbell was born and raised in Billstown, Arkansas, 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, California, 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, 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,
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
their 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, Missouri. In 1994, he published his autobiography, Rhinestone Cowboy.
Campbell released a comeback album of sorts, the ironically titled Meet Glen
Campbell, produced by Julian Raymond and Howard Willing, on Capitol Records in
2008.

In June of 2011, Campbell, by now 75 years old, announced that he had been
diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. In spite of the ailment, he finished an
album, Ghost on the Canvas, which was released in August that same year, and
began a tour that was to be his farewell to the music business. A collection of
outtakes from his last recording sessions, 2013's See You There, featured
Campbell performing new, more intimate versions of some of his best-known songs.
A film crew, led by filmmaker James Keach, followed Campbell on his final
concert tour, and the resulting documentary about Campbell's life and music,
Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me, began playing film festivals in the fall of 2014. The
film's soundtrack album was released in February of 2015 and included the
poignant single "I'm Not Gonna Miss You." While the single was billed as
Campbell's musical farewell, his longtime friend and accompanist Carl Jackson
guided Glen though the sessions for a final album, Adiós, which included four
songs from Jimmy Webb. Adiós was released on June 9, 2017 and Campbell died
two months later, on August 8, at the age of 81.

In the wake of his death, the 2012 box set Legacy was revised so its final disc
covered the music Campbell made during his final years. This new version of
Legacy appeared in 2019. © Stephen Thomas Erlewine



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