Well, he was a member of The Wrecking Crew long before he was a solo.

But it still surprised me. Don't know why.

Danny Baker interviewed Glen Campbell during the first hour of his BBC London radio show today.
At the end, Campbell said how nice it was to talk to someone who knew what he was talking about.
Listen to it on the BBC London website (presumably until tomorrow - Thursday - afternoon): http://tinyurl.com/cvtxh

Thanks for posting.

Want to see him live now.

That was great...

So, is Glen Campbell officially cool now? Is so I can feel better about him being my first proper gig; Sands Casino, Las Vegas, 1981. I was 13, and to be honest the thing I remember most about the gig was the topless dancing girls ;-) Still, now I can nonchalantly say "Glen Campbell? Of yeah, saw him years back..."

I think my Dad got the better deal... he went to see Sinatra at Caesar's Palace ($100 a ticket even back then) while my Mum, sister and I saw the Glen Campbell show, chosen for the ticket price more than anything else...

Saw him live twice in the last couple of years, he was great and, by the way, Glen Campbell was always cool. Check out the shirt in the clip if further proof is needed.

and the bloke wot made it famous. Warm glow in belly now... good.

Thanks, Lucas, that was great. You can see seven tracks from the recent album on AOl sessions. Notice the very different hairstyle!

http://music.aol.com/video/sing-sessions/glen-campbell/2198840

Just a couple more days' stubble and it's in the bag.

Jowlly enough.

I'm more impressed with how well his voice has held up. So many singers of a certain age appear on telly/stage, the audience listens with reverently bated breath - and then we get either a pathetic croak, a ghostly shadow of former glory (did anyone else find that Jimmy Scott's post-rediscovery appearances were, at least on the box, bafflingly poor?), an unnuanced bellow (rise, Sir Elton) or, in the case of someone like Alice Cooper, an abandonment of any real attempt to sing in favour of a sort of Spraechgesang.

Glen's still got the pipes.

PS It goes without saying that a lot of young singers can't sing worth a damn either. That fellow out of Kaiser Chiefs is about as close to being in tune as Joe Kinnear is to being invited to address the Oxford Union.

I had no idea there was any English equivalent - although I've just realised what "rexing it" refers to; is that your little joke, Archie, or is that term really in common usage?

So, what about Schadenfreude then? Is that known as Newbonnage?

...but I never realised that it was Glen Campbell singing the lead vocal:-