![]() ![]() Fewer still host the Glen Campbell Los Angeles open. ![]() When Do You Practice?: Glen Campbell is a scratch golfer.Hope He Owns A Tux: Campbell’s played the White House four times and two private shows for the UK’s royal family.Stranger Things Have Happened: The guitar on Sinatra’s “Strangers in the Night?” Glen Campbell.Saddle Up, Pilgrim: Glen Campbell was featured in the original version of True Grit alongside John Wayne (and recorded an Oscar-nominated song for the movie).With plenty of time in Nashville, England and more or less the rest of the world. On the Map: Born in Arkansas, a regional radio star in New Mexico, a hit session artist in Hollywood, ran a theater in Branson.Unfinished Big Business: The version of “Gentle On My Mind” that was such a smash? A demo!!! Most demos sound like wet napkins on cardboard.Albums For Everyone: Glen Campbell has sold over 45 million albums. #RONNIE MILSAP GREATEST HITS RAR TV#Then came the sessions, then came the albums, then came the hits, then came the TV shows, etc., etc., and this was all back when the music industry paid for this stuff. ![]() He scratched by on a meager publishing deal. He came to Hollywood in 1960 with $300 and a lot of hope. Forget Horatio Alger: Campbell grew up in severe poverty as the 7th son of an Arkansas sharecropper.He’s won Grammys, AMAs, CMAs, was up for an Oscar, and did a covers album that included a Green Day song. Changing Lanes: Campbell has gotten hits and/or awards in the country, pop and gospel genres.(Think about it, today’s biggest non-Super Bowl TV event, is 30 million people watching American Idol finals.) Tens of millions people a week watched it, with up to 50 million a week tuning in. A Good Time, All the Time: From 1969 to 1972, Campbell was the charismatic host of the aptly named The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour.He subbed in for a tour and then went off to make a several dozen of his own hits. God Only Knows: Glen played guitar on the Beach Boys’ opus Pet Sounds, and when Brian Wilson was in his, let’s say “difficult period,” they invited him to join the band.Um, Glen Campbell outsold the Beatles in 1969. Holy Moly: Glen’s a religious person so I won’t blaspheme here, but the Beatles famously claimed (in a quote admittedly taken out of context) to be bigger than Jesus.Most people at any point in history would have settled for Elvis and John Wayne. Forget Kevin Bacon: Within one degree of Glen Campbell you get: Elvis, John Wayne, Sinatra, the Beach Boys, Bobby Darin, Wayne Newton, Leon Russell, Merle Haggard, the Mamas & Papas, Dean Martin, Bobbie Gentry, Steve Martin, Rob Reiner, the Highwaymen, Tanya Tucker, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Steve McQueen, Joe Namath, Alan Jackson, Anne Murray, Mel Tillis, Robert Culp, Olivia Newton-John, Leif Garrett, Paul Westerberg, Billy Corgan, Bob Pollard, Jakob Dylan, Quincy Jones, Phil Spector, Clint Eastwood, Steve Wariner, Chris Isaak, Dick Dale, Nat King Cole, Rick Nelson, the Dillards, Dick Dale, Jeff Bridges, Allen Toussaint, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Rita Coolidge, Brian Setzer and Jimmy Webb. #RONNIE MILSAP GREATEST HITS RAR PLUS#That averages out to one for every year of his life plus six before he was born.
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