top three songs??
rhinestone cowboy
try a little kindness
southern nights
I really did love rhinestone cowboy.
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Rhinestone Cowboy
Southern Nights
Honey Come Back
Are you familiar with the LA session musicians known as The Wrecking Crew? I was familiar with Glen from his TV show and hits, but I always thought he was just a handsome guy with a good voice and could strum a guitar like a country folksinger. Sometime during the last decade I learned he was one of the most in-demand session guitarists back in the 60s, along with the rest of the W-crew. This is from his IMDb bio:
Before finally enjoying success on his own in the late 1960s, he was one of the top studio guitarists on the West Coast for more than a decade. A list of performers he accompanied reads almost like a who's-who of the top names of the era and includes Frank Sinatra, The Beach Boys, Nat 'King' Cole, Frankie Laine, Ricky Nelson, Jan Berry and Dean Torrence (aka Jan and Dean), Judy Garland, Dean Martin, The Kingston Trio (contributing a fourth voice on their 1963 hit "Desert Pete," you can easily hear him on the chorus), The Crickets and The Limeliters.
Wichita Lineman (1968)
Galveston (1969)
By the Time I Get to Phoenix (1967)
The Wrecking Crew is a 2008 documentary that didn't get released until 2015. It took that long to get the rights to air the clips from the many songs featured. Glen Campbell is prominently featured and interviewed. He hired his Wrecking Crew colleagues to help him on his first solo albums.
Whenever I think I know a lot about music, I find out how much I still don't know.
shareThe Wikipedia page has a long list of songs and artists (at the bottom) who used the Wrecking Crew. In the documentary, one of the artists said that his band tried to record the music themselves, and took over 100 takes to get it right. The Wrecking Crew could do the same work in an hour. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wrecking_Crew_(music)
Wrecking Crew member Carol Kaye said in the documentary that she still gets a tear in her eye when she hears the unique music cue she improvised for one of Glen Campbell's hit songs.
good songs.
shareGalveston
Gentle On My Mind
Southern Nights
Underrated guitarist.
Gentle on my Mind
Country Boy (You Got Your Feet In L.A.)
Rhinestone Cowboy