* 22 April, 1936, Delight, Arkansas

Glen Campbell is best known for the immensely popular string of pop and country hits with which he scored big in the 1900's and early 70's. "Wichita Uneman", "By The Time I Get To Phoenix", "Rhinestone Cowboy", "Gentie On My Mind", "Where's the P/ayground, Susie", "Oreams of Everyday Housewife" and "Southem Nights", among others Vet Campbell's roots have always run deep in country music, to whose folds he has returned in more recent years. The son of a sharecropper, Campbell was born in the throes of the Great Depression The seventh son in a family of 12 kids, he grew up knowing what hard times were all abaut. But he found his own ticket of hardscrabble Arkansas at age four when his father bought him a five-dollar guitar. Within a couple of years, he was already an accomplished picker

Cambell was still in his teens when he began working as a guitarist in various bands on the dancehall circuit in and around New Mexico, including a Western swing outfIt headed by his uncle, Dick Bills. He soon organized his own first band, The Western Wrangiers.

An impeccable guitarist and acomplished vocalist, Campbell, by age 24, was on the West Coast working as asession guitarist/harmony singer on the road and in the studio for everyone from Elvis Presley, Ray Charles and Merle Haggard to Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and The Marnas and Papas. After a few minor early successes as a recording artist -most notably with a modest hit called "Universal Soldier" -he did a brief stint in the hit harmony rock group, The Beach Boys. In 1900, with his solo career weIl under way, Campbell launched his own nationally braadcast television show, The Glen Cambe/1 Goodtime Hour, which became a showcase not only for Cambell, but for many other country artists as weIl Campbell also appeared in a few feature films, including a supporting role in True Grit, with John Wayne

But as the 197as wore on and his fame grew, Campbell began to name on the double pyre of alcohol and cocaine addiction. During the late 19las and early 1000's he garnered more tabloid headlines for his tumultuous, mutually abusive engagement to singer Tanya Tucker than for his music.

But like so many las and 80's country bad boys, Campbell has, in the middle age, traded in debauchery for religion and righteousness. recently, he confessed all the sins of his youth in his steamy autobiography, Rhinestone Cowboy, and has found refuge in predictabie places. barn again Christianity and conservative politics.

Along the way, he's proven once again that show business is one of the few professions where a reckless, somewhat misspent youth can actually end up bearing big dividends. "I'm frequent I y asked these days whether I plan to go into the ministry," Campbell, who these days serenely devotes most of his time to God, golf and Branson (where he performs at his Goodtime Theater) notes in Rhinestone Cowboy "My answer is that I'm already In it. l have a ministry in my music, much of which is focused on God and all of which is performed for God."

(000) –All I Have To Do Is Dream I Walk Right Back (Featuring Bobbie Gentry)

Albums:

1967 -Gentie On Mv Mind:

-1 Gentie On My Mind 2. Catch The Wind 3. It's Over 4. Bowling Green 5. Just Another Man 6. You're My World 7. The World I Used To Know 8. Without Her 9. Mary In The Moming 10. Love Me As If There Were No Tomorrow 11. Cryin'

1968 -Bv The Time I Get To Phoenix:

-1 By The Time I get To Phoenix 2. Homeward Bound 3. Tomorrow Never Comes 4. My Baby's Gone 5. Back In The Race 6. Hey UttIe One 7. Bad Seed 8. I’ ll Be Lucky Someday 9. You're Young And You' ll Forget 10. Love Is A Lonesome River 11. Cold December(ln YourHeart)