GENTLE ON MY MIND
“Gentle on My Mind” is a song written by John Hartford, which won four 1968 Grammy Awards, including Best Country & Western Solo Vocal Performance, Male and Best Country & Western Recording to American country music singer Glen Campbell for his version of Hartford’s song. It was released in June 1967 as the only single from the album of the same name and was re-released in July 1968 to more success. Glen Campbell’s version has received over 5 million plays on the radio. Campbell used “Gentle on My Mind” as the theme to his television variety show, The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour between 1969 and 1972. (More from Wikipedia)
Glen Campbell handled the lead guitar on the first single by the Rip Chords, “Here I Stand”. Most people know of Campbell’s string of fine hits in the mid-1960’s – “By the Time I Get to Phoenix”, “Wichita Lineman”, “Gentle on My Mind”, “Galveston”, and many more – but might not realize that he was one of the best session guitarists around for many years previously and had the most successful individual career among the loose aggregation of session players known as the Wrecking Crew. Campbell recently embarked on a farewell tour after acknowledging that he is suffering from Alzheimer’s.
(July 2011)
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Glen Campbell is of course best known for his long string of hit songs in the 1960’s and 1970’s – beginning with the John Hartford song “Gentle on My Mind” in 1967 – and his many television appearances on such shows as The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour and his own The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour (from January 1969 to June 1972).
(February 2015)
