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Glen Campbell

1936-04-22

The Biography

Glen Travis Campbell (April 22, 1936 - August 8, 2017) was a Grammy- and Dove Award-winning, Golden Globe-nominated American country pop singer, guitarist, television host and occasional actor. He is best known for a series of hits in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as for hosting a variety show called The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour on CBS television. During his 50 years in show business, Campbell released more than 70 albums. He sold 45 million records and racked up 12 RIAA Gold albums, 4 Platinum albums and 1 Double-Platinum album. Of his 74 trips up the country charts, 27 landed in the Top 10. Campbell's hits include John Hartford's "Gentle on My Mind", Jimmy Webb's "By the Time I Get to Phoenix", "Wichita Lineman" and "Galveston", Larry Weiss's "Rhinestone Cowboy" and Allen Toussaint's "Southern Nights". Campbell made history by winning four Grammys in both country and pop categories in 1967. For "Gentle on My Mind" he received two awards in country & western, "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" did the same in pop. He owned trophies for Male Vocalist of the Year from both the Country Music Association (CMA) and the Academy of Country Music (ACM), and took the CMA's top honor as 1968 Entertainer of the Year. In 1969 Campbell was hand picked by actor John Wayne to play alongside him in the film True Grit, which gave Campbell a Golden Globe nomination for Most Promising Newcomer. Campbell sang the title song which was nominated for an Academy Award. In 2005, Campbell was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Description above from the Wikipedia article Glen Campbell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia .

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True Grit

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Any Which Way You Can

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Rock-A-Doodle

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The Beach Boys

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The Wrecking Crew

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The Cool Ones

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Baby, the Rain Must Fall

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Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me

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The Dean Martin Christmas Show

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The T.A.M.I. Show

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Third World Cop

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Norwood

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The Definitive Elvis: Elvis and the Colonel

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Hava Nagila: The Movie

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Swing Out, Sweet Land

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The 5th Dimension Special: An Odyssey in the Cosmic Universe of Peter Max

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Glen Campbell | Live Anthology (1972-2001)

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Uphill All the Way

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Glen Campbell | Good Times Again

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The Grand Opening of Walt Disney World

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