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HAPPY BIRTHDAY GLEN CAMPBELL! I KNOW, I KNOW...Glen Campbell? I used to think the same thing about the guy (although I did LOVE the 9 or ten number one hit songs he had in his lifetime, with 'Gentle on My Mind' PROBABLY being my favorite. But here's the thing about this 'Rhinestone Cowboy', he was 'a studio musician in Los Angeles, spending several years playing with the group of instrumentalists'. Campbell played on recordings by the Beach Boys, Bobby Darin, Frank Sinatra, Ricky Nelson, Dean Martin, Nat King Cole, the Monkees, Nancy Sinatra, Merle Haggard, Jan and Dean,[19] Bing Crosby, Phil Spector, Sammy Davis Jr., Doris Day, Bobby Vee, The Everly Brothers, Shelley Fabares, The Cascades, Paul Revere & the Raiders, Wayne Newton, The First Edition, The Kingston Trio, Roger Miller, Gene Clark, Lou Rawls, Claude King, Lorne Greene, Ronnie Dove and Elvis Presley.' THAT'S SAYIN' SOMETHING, ESPECIALLY IN THAT ERA!!! and singer songwriter Jimmy Webb, NO SLOUCH, himself in the music industry said of Glen Campbell; 'He played with all kinds of genres, with different instrumentation and different styles. If it was a just and righteous world, Glen would be credited as one of the great, seminal influences of all time. He was a secret weapon in the armory of Sixties record producers.' Saw him on a variety show years ago where he played every STRING instrument they had on the stage that day as good as anyone that was considered and expert on most of them and BETTER than most experts on many of those musical instruments, including the piano! Not bad for an Arkansas country boy whose parents were sharecroppers, and who picked cotton to help his parents out financially when he was a boy ('I picked cotton for $1.25 a hundred pounds," Campbell said. "If you worked your tail off, you could pick 80 or 90 pounds a day.'  . He died in 2017 at the age of 81, so, he'd be 88 today if he was still livin', 'EVER SMILIN', EVER GENTLE on my MIND!'...
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'And for hours you're just gentle on my mind! I still might run in silence tears of joy might stain my face And the summer sun might burn me 'til I'm blind But not to where I cannot see you walkin' on the backroads By the rivers flowing gentle on my mind...' 'Gentle On My Mind' written by John Hartford, performed by Glen Campbell. 'In 1967, Campbell won four Grammys in the country and pop categories. 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.' HAPPY HEAVENLY BIRTHDAY and RIP, Mr. Glen Campbell...
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Campbell was an interesting studio musician. He performed on the Elvis album Viva Las Vegas. His TV show gave us one of the few TV performances of Ray Charles and the Smothers Brothers were a direct spin off from his show. His number one song, Rhinestone Cowboy is one of those tunes you get in your head an it's there all day.
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