Gentle on My Mind

by Glen Campbell

Overview

The best of Campbell's early albums, and also his first real commercial success. Ironically, the title track (written by John Hartford) which started Campbell on the road to stardom, was never intended for release -- he had submitted it as a demo, and Capitol issued it, to everybody's profit. Campbell's cover of "Catch the Wind" is one of the finest covers of a Donovan song ever done, stripping away any hint of the composer's sub-Dylan pretensions and bringing out the song's genuine beauty -- it's folk-pop, in the same manner that Peter, Paul and Mary's cover of Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind" was, but excellent folk-pop. This is Campbell's folksiest album, albeit with string orchestra accompaniment, as he covers "Bowling Green," "Mary in the Morning," and the title tune, and you get to hear him do a solo guitar and voice number, his own "Just Another Man." Even the most overproduced stuff here, "You're My World" and Rod McKuen's "The World I Used to Know," come off well, and Campbell is in excellent voice throughout, most especially on a wonderfully restrained and beautiful rendition of Roy Orbison's "Crying." Gentle On My Mind was reissued in August of 2001 as part of Capitol-Nashville's "Cornerstones" series, in an upgraded, remastered edition with crisper sound than the 1996 Capitol CD. ~ Bruce Eder

Product Details

Release Date:	03/24/2017
Label:	Capitol / Virgin Emi
UPC:	0602557280869
Rank:	63201

Tracks

1. Gentle on My Mind
2. Catch the Wind
3. It's Over
4. Bowling Green
5. Just Another Man
6. You're My World
7. The World I Used to Know
8. Without Her
9. Mary in the Morning
10. Love Me as Though There Were No Tomorrow
11. Crying

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Glen Campbell   Primary Artist,Guitar,Vocals,Guitar (Acoustic)
Leon Russell   Primary Artist,Conductor,Featured Artist
James Burton   Guitar (Acoustic),Guitar (Electric)
Al DeLory   Conductor
Joe Osborn   Guitar (Bass)
Doug Dillard   Banjo
Jim Gordon   Drums
Russell Bridges   Piano

Technical Credits

Terry Slater   Composer
Jacqueline Ertel   Composer
Joe Allison   Composer
Joe Melson   Composer
Umberto Bindi   Composer
John Hartford   Composer
Rod McKuen   Composer
Johnny Cymbal   Composer
Jimmie Rodgers   Composer
Gino Paoli   Composer
Michael Lendell   Composer
Harry Nilsson   Composer
Al DeLory   Arranger,Producer
Glenn Meadows   Remastering
Jimmie F. Rodgers   Composer
Glen Campbell   Composer
Harold Adamson   Composer
Carl Sigman   Composer
Bob Norberg   Digital Remastering
Jimmy McHugh   Composer
Donovan   Composer
Leon Russell   Arranger,Composer
Roy Orbison   Composer
Jackie Ertel   Composer
Joseph Allen   Composer
Karen Cronin   Design,Repackaging Art Direction
Nancy H. Williams   Producer
John Johnson   Reissue Producer
Donovan Leitch   Composer
John Harford   Composer