Glen Campbell''final' album

Before Glen Campbell became a TV star with “The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour” on CBS in the late '60s and early '70s and before he was charting his own hits, such as “By the Time I Get to Phoenix,” “Galveston,” “Rhinestone Cowboy” and “Gentle on My Mind,” he was part of the elite Los Angeles-based studio musicians known as the Wrecking Crew.

They got the nickname from their ability to knock out hit after hit, day after day, year after year for artists of nearly all stripes: Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, the Beach Boys, the Monkees and countless others.

Campbell, the subject of a full profile coming this weekend, said the reason he found his way into that influential and lucrative gig boiled down to one thing: “Capo, capo, capo,” he said recently at his home in Malibu.

It seems the guitar he learned to play on, an acoustic model his father purchased for $7.50 from Sears & Roebuck when he was growing up on the farm in rural Arkansas with his sharecropper parents, wasn’t the highest-quality instrument in the world.
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