Glen Campbell 1968

Glen Campbell 1968, hand-drawn with his Mosrite Dobro Californian D-100 guitar, Los Angeles upon the release of his album, “Hey, Little One” age 32.

“Hey, Little One” was the eighth album by American singer-guitarist Glen Campbell, released in 1968 by Capitol Records.
The single “I Wanna Live” became Campbell’s first number-one hit on the country charts.

Campbell was an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, actor and television host. He was best known for a series of hit songs in the 1960s and 1970s, and for hosting The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour on CBS television from 1969 until 1972.
He released 64 albums in a career that spanned five decades, selling over 45 million records worldwide, including twelve gold albums, four platinum albums, and one double-platinum album.

Moving to Los Angeles in 1960, Campbell soon was in demand as a session musician and became part of a group of studio musicians later known as the Wrecking Crew.

Campbell played on recordings by the Beach Boys, Bobby Darin, Frank Sinatra, Ricky Nelson, Dean Martin, Nat King Cole, the Monkees, Nancy Sinatra, Merle Haggard, Jan and Dean, Bing Crosby, Phil Spector, Sammy Davis Jr., Doris Day, Bobby Vee, The Everly Brothers, Shelley Fabares, The Cascades, Paul Revere & the Raiders, Wayne Newton, The First Edition, The Kingston Trio, Roger Miller, Gene Clark, Lou Rawls, Claude King, Lorne Greene, Ronnie Dove and Elvis Presley.

He released his first solo album in 1961.
Over the course of his career he had the following hits: “I Wanna Live”, “Rhinestone Cowboy”, “By The Time I Get To Phoenix”, “Gentile On My Mind”, “The Hand That Rocks The Cradle”, “Southern Nights”, “Wichita Lineman”, “Try A Little Kindness” and “Galveston”.

In 2005, Campbell was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.

Campbell died in Nashville, Tennessee, on August 8, 2017, at the age of 81 from complications of Alzheimer’s disease.

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