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Glen Travis Campbell is an American rock and country music singer, musician, songwriter, television host and actor. His song "Southern Nights" is featured in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.

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  • Glen Campbell
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  • Glen Travis Campbell is an American rock and country music singer, musician, songwriter, television host and actor. His song "Southern Nights" is featured in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.
  • Glen Campbell (1936-2017) was a Grammy winning, Golden Globe and Academy Award nominated country music recording artist who played with many other stars in the pop and rock fields over the years. Over his career, he dueted with Anne Murray, Tanya Tucker, and Mel Tillis, and scored one of his biggest hits with "Rhinestone Cowboy". He sang "Keep on Smilin'" with Oscar the Grouch on the 1981 album Sesame Country.
  • Glen Campbell is an American country music singer, guitarist, television host, and occasional actor. He is best known for a series of hits in the 1960s and 1970s including his mega-hit "Rhinestone Cowboy", and for hosting a variety show called The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour on CBS television. During his 50 years in show business, Campbell has released more than 70 albums. He has sold 45 million records and accumulated 12 RIAA Gold albums, 4 Platinum albums and 1 Double-Platinum album. He has placed a total of 80 different songs on either the Billboard Country Chart, Billboard Hot 100, and/or the Adult Contemporary Chart, of which 29 made the Top 10 and of which nine reached number one on at least one of those charts. Campbell's hits include his recordings of John Hartford's "Gentle on My
  • Glen Travis Campbell (born April 22, 1936) is an American country music singer, guitarist, songwriter, television host, and occasional actor. He is best known for a series of hits in the 1960s and 1970s, and forHOSTING a variety show called The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour on CBS television.
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  • Delight, Arkansas, USA
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  • Glen Campbell
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  • Glen Campbell is an American country music singer, guitarist, television host, and occasional actor. He is best known for a series of hits in the 1960s and 1970s including his mega-hit "Rhinestone Cowboy", and for hosting a variety show called The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour on CBS television. During his 50 years in show business, Campbell has released more than 70 albums. He has sold 45 million records and accumulated 12 RIAA Gold albums, 4 Platinum albums and 1 Double-Platinum album. He has placed a total of 80 different songs on either the Billboard Country Chart, Billboard Hot 100, and/or the Adult Contemporary Chart, of which 29 made the Top 10 and of which nine reached number one on at least one of those charts. Campbell's hits include his recordings of 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 in 1967 by winning four Grammys total, in the country and pop categories. In 2011, Campbell announced he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Campbell went on a final "Goodbye Tour", with three of his children joining him in his backup band; his last show was on November 30, 2012, in Napa, California. In April 2014, news reports indicated the 78-year-old Campbell had become a patient at an Alzheimer's long-term care and treatment facility.
  • Glen Travis Campbell (born April 22, 1936) is an American country music singer, guitarist, songwriter, television host, and occasional actor. He is best known for a series of hits in the 1960s and 1970s, and forHOSTING a variety show called The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour on CBS television. During his 50 years in showBUSINESS, Campbell has released more than 70 albums. He has sold 45 million records and accumulated 12 RIAA Gold albums, 4 Platinum albums and 1 Double-Platinum album. He has placed a total of 80 different songs on either the Billboard Country Chart, Billboard Hot 100, and/or the Adult Contemporary Chart, of which 29 made the Top 10 and of which nine reached number one on at least one of those charts. Campbell's hits include his recordings of 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 in 1967 byWINNING four Grammys total, in the country and pop categories.[2] For "Gentle on My Mind" he received two awards in country and western, "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" did the same in pop.THREE of his early hits later won Grammy Hall of Fame Awards (2000, 2004, 2008), while Campbell himself won the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012. He owns 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 award as 1968 Entertainer of the Year. In 1969 actor John Wayne picked Campbell to play alongside him in the film True Grit, which gave Campbell a Golden Globenomination for Most Promising Newcomer. Campbell sang theTITLE song which was nominated for an Academy Award.
  • Glen Travis Campbell is an American rock and country music singer, musician, songwriter, television host and actor. His song "Southern Nights" is featured in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.
  • Glen Campbell (1936-2017) was a Grammy winning, Golden Globe and Academy Award nominated country music recording artist who played with many other stars in the pop and rock fields over the years. Over his career, he dueted with Anne Murray, Tanya Tucker, and Mel Tillis, and scored one of his biggest hits with "Rhinestone Cowboy". He sang "Keep on Smilin'" with Oscar the Grouch on the 1981 album Sesame Country.
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