Glen Campbell News

Lego creates life-size X-Wing Fighter Jet; a second suspected jewelry heist occurs at Cannes Film Fest; Christopher Lee to release his second heavy metal album; and more.

Preparations are underway for the 3rd Annual John Hartford Memorial Festival being held in the hills of southern Indiana at the Official Bean Blossom & Bill Monroe Music Park in beautiful Brown County, May 30-June 1. This is the third of what the festival's creator, John Hotze, and co-promoter, Dan Dillman, hope to see as an event to preserve the ... (more)

Co-producer Dennis Lambert and songwriter Larry Weiss remember how, inspired by Hop-Along Cassidy, they created Glen Campbell's signature song 'The song just blew me away' a Glen Campbell in 1975, wearing the outfit made for the video.

There being no moonshine or chewing tobacco available in my local Scotmid I settle down to watch BBC4's three-hour country music marathon with a mug of camomile tea and a Tunnock's Caramel Log for sustenance.

Margaret Whiting, 1924-2011, was a contemporary of Peggy Lee and Patti Page who began as a big band singer in the 1940s and then moved on to a successful solo career. But the advent of the rock and roll era saw her commercial success dwindle as she gradually faded from the music scene.

Um... some selectors play this out, like, as a dance jam . Odd, 'cause this is a big , and very Brian Wilson sounding pop song, which, to my ears, ain't a mover.