Country Music Memories: Glen Campbell Is Born in Delight, Ark.
Happy birthday in Heaven, Glen Campbell! The singer was born on this day, April 22, in 1936. Campbell was born the seventh of 12 children to John Campbell, a sharecropper, and his wife Carrie. After his uncle, known as "Boo," taught Campbell to play the guitar as a child, the future star relocated to Albuquerque, N.M., as a teenager, to play in his uncle's band. In 1958, Campbell formed his own band, the Western Wranglers, and in 1960, he relocated to Los Angeles to become a session musician. Campbell's debut album, Big Bluegrass Special, was released in 1962 on Capitol Records, but it only...
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