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,
Acting alongside the larger-than-life star I'd grown up idolizing back in Delight, Arkansas, was truly one of the most memorable experiences of my life.
I can't tell you how short a period it seems like -- 32 years -- to 1967. And now I'm up here getting the Pioneer Award. Then I was getting the go get 'em award.
Some people have said that I can 'hear' a hit song, meaning that I can tell the first time a song is played for me if it has potential. I have been able to hear some of the hits that way, but I can also 'feel' one.
I am a lineman for the county.
I don't remember not singing. I started when I was, I don't know how - what, two years old, or a year old or something like that.
I miss him already. He was a unique person and a dear friend. If a record came on the radio, you'd know it was Waylon Jennings.
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 would have been content to just do studio work, making it on my own never really entered my mind.
There's been a load of compromising, on the road to my horizon, but I'm gonna be where the lights are shining on me.
I like to start the day early, it keeps me out of trouble.
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.
There ought to be a hall of fame for mamas / Creation's most unique and precious pearl / And heaven help us always to remember / That the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world