In 1969, there was no bigger star in popular music than singer-guitarist Glen Campbell. Although Johnny Cash was by then a weekly TV star like his fellow Arkansan, Campbell’s broad appeal ensured ...

Few cities are so lucky as to have a hit song gifted to them as completely as Galveston. There’s “I Left My Heart In San Francisco,” “Viva Las Vegas,” “Amarillo By Morning,” and Jimmie Dale Gilmore’s ...

Is there a better antiwar pop song than “Galveston,” which Jimmy Webb wrote and Glen Campbell sang in the Vietnam-hued year of 1969? Therein, a young soldier daydreams of his Texas home by the Gulf ...

As a 10-year-old kid born in Oklahoma and raised in West Texas, Jimmy Webb didn't have much experience with the sea until his father, a Baptist minister, put him in the car and drove to Galveston. "It ...

"Well, that moment has come that we have known was an inevitable certainty and yet stings like a sudden catastrophe. Let the world note that a great American influence on pop music, the American ...

On this day (October 22) in 1968, Glen Campbell was at No. 1 on the Top Country Albums chart with Gentle on My Mind, giving him his first entry on the tally. After years of struggling to find success ...