Glen Campbell

Glen Travis Campbell (April 22, 1936, Billstown, Arkansas, USA - August 8, 20171) was one of the most famous American pop and country singers, representing the 1960s and 1970s during which he acquired the stature of Legend, despite only having achieved few successes in the local radio and to international level. He was the author of the theme of the film True Grit that took the same name, that film deserved an Oscar to John Wayne, the subject, also was nominated to the prize of the Academy. His success, By The Time I Get To Phoenix, would place him within the classics of American pop music. He won the Grammy Award several times, being the only one to have won the prize in two different categories (Country and Pop) simultaneously. He was inducted into the Sónon de la Fama de la Música Country in 2005

Contents [hide]
1 Biography
1.1 Beginnings, session musician and The Beach Boys
1.2 Second half of the 60s
1.3 1970 The Good Times
1.4 End of the early 70's
1.5 Behind the music
2 Discography
2.1 Albums
3 References
4 External links
Biography [edit]
Beginnings, session musician and The Beach Boys [edit]
Glen was born into an extremely humble family, originally from the small community of Billstown, his father was a farmer, was the seventh son of a total of twelve. Under the influence of his uncle he began to play the guitar, in a lyrical way, that is to say without having knowledge of reading music. Campbell is left-handed, but plays right-handed. At the age of eighteen, he traveled south to become part of The Western Wranglers. In 1958 he emigrated to Los Angeles to become a session musician (studio).

Bobby Darin, Ricky Nelson, Merle Haggard, The Monkees, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, The Association, Jan and Dean and The Mamas & The Potatoes.

He was also a de facto member of the Beach Boys, covering Brian Wilson's absence from the tour from 1964 to 1965, and even participated in the recording of his album Pet Sounds.

Other classical interpretations came from the recording of Frank Sinatra's already legendary song "Strangers in the Night", where he masterfully performed guitar scores. Another musical theme in which it participated was the song "You've Lost That Lovin 'Feelin'" (You lost that feeling) original of The Righteous Brothers, and in the already classic song "I'm a Believer" (I am a believer ) Of The Monkees.

Glen was part of the famous studio group called "The Wrecking Crew," consisting primarily of Glen, Hal Blaine and Carol Kaye, together formed the elite professional session musicians who contributed decisively to many songs , That became hits during the time of Rock and Roll. They also defined - to be discovered by Phil Spector - the beginnings of the "Sound Wall" in the early 1960s.

Second half of the 60 [edit]
Acting as a solo artist, he had a moderate regional hit "Turn Around, Look at Me," "To Late to Worry," "Too Blue to Cry," and "Kentucky Means Paradise," recorded with a Country Cut group called The River Boys), were slightly popular only among the Country audience.

In 1962 Campbell signed with Capitol Records, released two instrumental albums and some vocal albums during his first five years in the company. However, despite releasing the simple writings by Brian Wilson (Guess I'm Dumb) in 1960 and Buffy Saint Marie (Universal Soldier) the same year, Glen was not getting more success as a solo performer. It was rumored that Capitol already considered dismissing him from the label in 1966, the year he teamed with producer Al DeLory and together collaborated on the subject influenced by Bob Dylan's current "Gentle On My Mind" written by John Hartford.

The premature success of "Gentle on my Mind" proved that Campbell was ready to face success. "Wichita Lineman" was selected as one of the great songs of "The Wichita Lineman" in 1967, "I Wanna Live" and "Wichita Lineman". 20th century by Mojo Magazine in 1997 and by Blender Magazine in 2001.

Glen would win two Grammy Awards for "Gentle On My Mind" and "By The Time I Get To Phoenix" simultaneously.

The greatest hits in 1968-1969 were evocative songs by Jimmy Webb, the vast majority. The full album of Webb's themes "Reunion: The Songs of Jimmy Webb" released in 1974 is seen as one of the finest works of Campbell although in if the disc did not generate any success.

In 1969, Campbell appeared next to John Wayne in the film Valor de Ley, in which sang the song "True Grit"