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...fact, the album stands as a timely symbol of the growing infusion of country sounds into the U.S. pop mainstream. More and more, country performers-from established figures like Buck Owens to newcomers such as Glen Campbell and John Hartford-are commanding national audiences. At the same time, pop performers, including Bob Dylan and the Byrds, are gravitating closer to the country style. "With better communications, there's more exposure of country music," says Cash. "I think people go back to it to find the basic thing, the grass roots. People like my songs, for instance, because there...
Vera List is the wife of Albert A. List, former chairman of the diversified Glen Alden Corp. (movie theaters, retailing, textiles), and she does not exactly have to work for a living. She feels that seeing good contemporary art is as necessary as "reading a newspaper, so you'll know what's going on in the world," and that posters are one way to keep the man in the street posted. Her program got under way in 1961, when the List family foundation made a grant of $200,000 to New York's Lincoln Center...
...GLEN CAMPBELL: HEY, LITTLE ONE (Capitol). Campbell appears on the cover holding an immense guitar, but he sounds as if he were backed by a Wagnerian orchestra. His hoarse dark voice is suitable to such zingy sentiment as the popular Elusive Butterfly and the lushly poignant Woman, Woman. Campbell's inflection may be country, but his delivery is unquestionably urbane...
...SUMMER BROTHERS SMOTHERS SHOW (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). Doleful Comedian Pat Paulsen joins Singer Glen Campbell in a song-and-comedy hour in which the Brothers themselves appear as guests along with Nancy Sinatra and Joey Bishop...
Webb wrote a wistful ballad about the affair called By the Time I Get to Phoenix. As recorded by Glen Campbell, it rose medium-high in the bestseller charts and won Campbell a Grammy award for the best male vocal performance of 1967. Meantime, Webb and a friend were planning a movie about a balloon trip. The only part of the venture that got off the ground was Webb's title song. It was recorded by The 5th Dimension, and it soared high in the charts, sold 875,000 copies and won some more Grammies. Trans World Airlines bought...