Classics Collection

by Glen Campbell

Description by OLDIES.com:

Few people were as popular as Glen Campbell was in the late '60s and early '70s. Both a top recording and TV star, the multi-Grammy award winning Campbell began his career as a much-sought-after session guitarist. This definitive compilation includes the big hits from this one-of-a-kind artist, including "By The Time I Get To Phoenix", "Galveston", "Wichita Lineman" and his signature tune, "Rhinestone Cowboy".

Product Description:

Includes liner notes by Mark Marymont.

A perfectly acceptable, if somewhat attenuated greatest hits package. As usual, the Jimmy Webb songs are the most interesting; "Galveston," "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" and particularly "Wichita Lineman" have the feel of timeless pop classics.

Alan Toussaint's bouncy "Southern Nights" has also lost none of its charm, and the two non-hit tracks here are most definitely worth hearing. Campbell's cover of Pee Wee King's '50s stomper "Bonaparte's Retreat" is as idiomatic as they come, and the semi-obscure "Hey Little One," a catchy piece of proto-country rock by Rock And Roll Trio stalwart Dorsey Burnett, is an intriguing period piece.