Glen Campbell
Glen Campbell
Glen Travis Campbellis an American rock and country music singer, guitarist, songwriter, television host, and occasional actor. He is best known for a series of hits in the 1960s and 1970s, and for hosting a music and comedy variety show called The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour on CBS television from January 1969 through June 1972...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCountry Singer
Date of Birth22 April 1936
CityBillstown, AR
CountryUnited States of America
Duke insisted that he do his own jump,
John Wayne's 9-year-old daughter really loved my show, and she wanted to meet me, ... So Duke got in his station wagon and drove down to the studio one day. That's how we met. ... He's the one who got me the part (in 'True Grit').
He'd come in and play piano jazz with the band until the A&R man and the producer would go, 'Are you guys ready in there yet?' And he said, 'Well, in just a while.' We'd be jamming. He wouldn't pay any attention to it. I remember the session -- (it was for) Lazy Hazy Days Of Summer.
I was in Studio 3 cutting a song with, I think, the Irish Rovers, ... I saw a record on the wall in the hall by Johnny Rivers. It had this song 'By the Time I Get to Phoenix.' And that made me curious. I wondered if it was about the city or the bird. So I listened to it, and I cried because it made me homesick. And if you can cry to Johnny Rivers, you know that's a good song. I recorded it the next day. And lo and behold it was one of the biggest records I ever had.
You've got to try a little kindness, yes show a little kindness Just shine your light for everyone to see. And if you try a little kindness, Then you'll overlook the blindness Of narrow-minded people on the narrow-minded streets.
I guess I'm like Roger Miller who used to say that he didn't have as many jokes as he thought he did.
I am a lineman for the county.