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Classic Campbell: BGO Brings Three Vintage Glen Campbell Albums to CD

April 12, 2013 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Glen Campbell - Glen Travis Three-FerThe BGO label has continued its ongoing Glen Campbell reissue series by bringing three long-out-of-print albums to CD in one package.  Following the late 2012 release of Try a Little Kindness/The Glen Campbell Goodtime Album/The Last Time I Saw Her, BGO has just brought together a trio of LPs originally released in 1972 and 1973: Glen Travis Campbell, I Knew Jesus (Before He Was a Star) and I Remember Hank Williams.

Following the release of Campbell’s New Jersey-recorded Live album from 1969, BGO has taken a more-or-less chronological approach to the singer-guitarist’s Capitol catalogue, overlooking duets albums (such as Bobbie Gentry and Glen Campbell and Anne Murray/Glen Campbell, both recently brought to CD by the Morello label), seasonal and gospel sets (That Christmas Feeling, Oh Happy Day) and soundtracks (True Grit, Norwood).  Glen Travis Campbell/I Knew Jesus (Before He Was a Star)/I Remember Hank Williams is BGO’s sixth set for the artist.

Campbell closed out 1972 with the release of Glen Travis Campbell, the first of the three LPs in BGO’s package.  With no new songs from Jimmy Webb and a new producer (Jimmy Bowen, replacing Al De Lory), Campbell was in somewhat uncharted territory.  Bowen assembled an eclectic set of material from Leon Russell (“My Cricket”), Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen (“All My Tomorrows”), Roy Orbison (“Running Scared”) and Tom Paxton (“The Last Thing on My Mind”).  Glen Travis Campbell yielded a couple of minor singles in Ronnie Gaylord’s “I Will Never Pass This Way Again” and “One Last Time” from the pen of The Addrisi Brothers of “Never My Love” fame.  (The Addrisis also recorded “One Last Time” on their own 1972 Columbia long-player.)  The album squeaked into the Top 150, which was a better showing than that of 1973’s I Knew Jesus (Before He Was a Star).

The title track of I Knew Jesus, co-written by Neal Hefti, earned Campbell a Top 50 placement on both the pop and country charts, but the album floundered commercially.  With production again by Bowen and a musical team including Wrecking Crew members Hal Blaine, Carol Kaye and James Burton, I Knew Jesus didn’t limit itself to any one musical style.  Glen tackled songs by Bob Dylan (“If Not for You”), Kinky Friedman (“Sold American”), Kenny O’Dell (“Take It On Home”) and Lefty Frizzell (“I Want to Be with You Always”).  The final album on BGO’s collection saw Campbell and Bowen try a different approach.  For his very next and 25th album, the singer and producer turned to a true country giant.  I Remember Hank Williams eschewed most of the Wrecking Crew personnel (save pianist Larry Knechtel) and took a rootsier country approach to Williams’ catalogue as a songwriter and artist.  Campbell surveyed such familiar songs as “Your Cheatin’ Heart,” “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” and “Cold, Cold Heart,” as well as Fred Rose and Hy Heath’s “Take These Chains From My Heart,” a posthumous hit for Williams in 1953.  Despite a down-to-earth approach to some of the greatest C&W songs ever written, I Remember Hank Williams didn’t make much of an impression to record buyers, missing the U.S. pop album chart entirely.

After the jump: more details including complete track listings with discography, and order link!

John Tobler has contributed the liner notes, and Andrew Thompson has remastered the three albums for BGO.  Glen Campbell’s next album, 1974’s Houston (I’m Comin’ to See You) (hopefully coming soon from BGO?) fared much better, largely thanks to its hit title track as well as “Bonaparte’s Retreat.”  He would just have to wait one more year to return to the top of the charts with crossover smashes like “Rhinestone Cowboy” and “Southern Nights.”

Glen Travis Campbell/I Knew Jesus (Before He Was a Star)/I Remember Hank Williams is available now, and can be ordered at the link below!

Glen Campbell, Glen Travis Campbell/I Knew Jesus (Before He Was a Star)/I Remember Hank Williams (BGO  BGOCD1085, 2013)

CD 1: Glen Travis Campbell (Tracks 1-10)/I Knew Jesus (Before He Was a Star) (Tracks 11-20)

  1. I Will Never Pass This Way Again
  2. One Last Time
  3. Sweet Fantasy
  4. She Thinks I Still Care
  5. Running Scared
  6. Someone to Give My Love To
  7. All My Tomorrows
  8. My Cricket
  9. Just For What I Am
  10. The Last Thing on My Mind
  11. I Knew Jesus (Before He Was a Star)
  12. Take It On Home
  13. Sold American
  14. I Want to Be with You Always
  15. If Not for You
  16. Give Me Back That Old Familiar Feeling
  17. You’re the One
  18. Amazing Grace
  19. On This Road
  20. Someday Soon

CD 2: I Remember Hank Williams

  1. Half as Much
  2. Your Cheatin’ Heart
  3. I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry
  4. You Win Again
  5. I Could Never Be Ashamed of You
  6. Wedding Bells
  7. Cold, Cold Heart
  8. Take These Chains From My Heart
  9. I Can’t Help It (If I’m Still in Love with You)
  10. Mansion on the Hill

CD 1, Tracks 1-10 from Capitol SW 11117, 1972 & Tracks 11-20 from Capitol SW 11185, 1972
CD 2, Tracks 1-10 from Capitol SW 11253, 1973

Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Country, Pop Tags: Glen Campbell

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JOE MARCHESE (Editor) joined The Second Disc shortly after its launch in early 2010, and has since penned daily news and reviews about classic music of all genres. In 2015, Joe formed the Second Disc Records label. Celebrating the great songwriters, producers and artists who created the sound of American popular song, Second Disc Records, in conjunction with Real Gone Music, has released newly-curated collections produced by Joe from iconic artists such as Johnny Mathis, Bobby Darin, Laura Nyro, Melissa Manchester, Chet Atkins, and many others. He has contributed liner notes to reissues from a diverse array of artists, among them Nat "King" Cole, Paul Williams, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield, B.J. Thomas, The 5th Dimension, Burt Bacharach, The Mamas and the Papas, Carpenters, Perry Como, Rod McKuen, Doris Day, Jackie DeShannon, and Andy Williams, and has compiled releases for talents including Robert Goulet and Keith Allison of Paul Revere and the Raiders. Over the past two decades, Joe has also worked in a variety of capacities on and off Broadway as well as at some of the premier theatres in the U.S., including Lincoln Center Theater, George Street Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, and the York Theatre Company. He has felt privileged to work on productions alongside artists such as the late Jack Klugman, Eli Wallach, Arthur Laurents, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. In 2009, Joe began contributing theatre and music reviews to the print publication The Sondheim Review, and in 2012, he joined the staff of The Digital Bits as a regular contributor writing about film and television on DVD and Blu-ray. Joe currently resides in the suburbs of New York City.

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