BY THE TIME I GET TO PHOENIX
GLEN CAMPBELL
SONGWRITER: WEBB JIMMY L.
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: BY THE TIME I GET TO PHOENIX
LABEL: CAPITOL RECORDS
GENRE: FOLK MUSIC
YEAR: 1967
Glen Travis Campbell(April 22, 1936– August
8, 2017) was an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, actor and television
host. He was best known for a series of hit songs in the 1960s and 1970s, and
for hosting The Glen
Campbell Goodtime Hour on CBS television from
1969 until 1972. He released 64 albums in a career that spanned five decades,
selling over 45 million records worldwide, including twelve gold albums, four
platinum albums, and one double-platinum album.
Born in Billstown,
Arkansas, Campbell began his professional career as a
studio musician in Los Angeles, spending several years playing with the group of
instrumentalists later known as "The Wrecking
Crew". After becoming a solo artist, he
placed a total of 80 different songs on either the Billboard Country Chart,
Billboard Hot 100, or Adult Contemporary Chart,
of which 29 made the top 10 and of which nine reached number one on at least
one of those charts. Among Campbell's hits are "Universal
Soldier", his first hit from 1965, along with
"Gentle on My
Mind" (1967), "By the Time I
Get to Phoenix" (1967), "Dreams of the
Everyday Housewife" (1968), "Wichita Lineman" (1968),
"Galveston" (1969),
"Rhinestone Cowboy"
(1975), and "Southern
Nights" (1977).
In
1967, Campbell won four Grammys in the country and pop categories. 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
owned 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. Campbell played a supporting role in the film True Grit(1969),
which earned him a Golden Globe nomination
for Most Promising Newcomer. He also sang the title song, which
was nominated for an Academy Award.
By the Time I Get to Phoenix is the seventh
album by American singer-guitarist Glen Campbell,
released in November 1967 by Capitol Records.
In March 1969 the album won the Grammy for Album of the
Year(for 1968), the first country album to do so.
In February 1968 the album's lead single "By the Time I Get to Phoenix",
released October 1967, won Grammys for both Best Vocal Performance, Male and
Best Contemporary Male Solo Vocal Performance (for 1967). In 2004 "By the Time I
Get to Phoenix" was inducted in the Grammy
Hall of Fame.
By the time I get to
Phoenix
She'll be rising
She'll find the note I left hanging on her door
She'll laugh, when she reads the part that says I'm leaving
Cause I've left that girl, so many times before
By the time I make
Albuquerque
She'll be working
She'll probably stop at lunch,
And give me a call
But she'll just hear that phone keep on ringing
Off the wall, that's all
By the time I make
Oklahoma
She'll be sleeping
She'll turn softly and call my name out low
And she'll cry, just to think, I'd really leave her
Though time and time I've tried to tell her so
She just didn't know,
I would really go.
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