Glen Campbell (innate April 22, 1936) is an American pop-country singer, best known for the series of hits in the 1960s and 1970s, when well as for hosting the television variety.

Campbell occurs as indigene of Delight, Arkansas and began playing a guitar as a youth without ever learning to scan music. Per instance he wwhen xviii, Campbell was touring a south as a share of the "Western Wranglers". Inside 1958, Campbell moved to Los Angeles to become the session musician.

Campbell's period of time as a session musician was successful, & he played by using Bobby Darin, Rick Nelson, The Beach Boys (for which he was a traveling member awhile within 1965), Merle Haggard, The Monkees, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, The Association, and The Mamas & the Papas, among others. His debut only was a moderate profits "Turn Around, Look at Me." "Too Late to Worry — Too Blue to Cry" & "Kentucky Means Paradise" were likewise popular in just the little subdivision of the united states audience. By 1967, Campbell was ready to break through to the mainstream using "Gentle on My Mind" (written by John Hartford) and "I Wanna Live" in 1968 (see 1968 in music).

Campbell's large hits within 1968–1969 came on redolent songs written by Jimmy Webb: "By the Time I Get to Phoenix", "Wichita Lineman," "Where's The Playground Suzie?", & "Galveston". Campbell's voice & phrasing conveyed a songs' emotional content perfectly. A pair's melodiously sublime partnership is nicely chronicled on the 1974 album Reunion: A Songs of Jimmy Webb.

When he hosted the 1968 summertime replacement for the Smothers Brothers television show, Campbell experienced his have hebdomadally variety, The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour, from January 1969 across June 1972. At the height of his popularity, a 1970 life by Freda Kramer, A Glen Campbell Story, was published.

When you took a early 1970s, Campbell released an extended series of singles & appeared in the picture show True Grit with John Wayne and Kim Darby and Norwood with Kim Darby and Joe Namath. In the mid-1970s he got further large hits using "Rhinestone Cowboy", "Southern Nights", and "Sunflower". After, Campbell began with pain reaching a stock & index charts, and began to abuse doses. By 1989, however, he got quit doses & was regularly reaching a united states Top Ten; songs such as "She's Gone, Gone, Gone" were highly popular. In the 1990s, Campbell mostly retired from recording, though he has non quit completely. Around 1994, his autobiography, Rhinestone Cowboy, was published.

Campbell returned to the stock and index charts within 2002 by having the hit remaking of "Rhinestone Cowboy" by owning UK dance producers Rikki & Daz.

Around 2005, Campbell — along by having a united states music supergroup Alabama and Grand Ole Opry pioneer DeFord Bailey — were inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.

Marriages include 1955–1959 to Diane Kirk, girl Debra Kay 1959–1976 to Billie Jean Nunley, girl Kelli Glen, boy William Travis 1976–1982 to Sarah Davis 1982 to present, Kimberly (Kim) Woolen, boy Nicklaus Caledonia, boy Shanon Webb, girl Ashley Noel