Official video of Glen Campbell performing Rhinestone Cowboy from the album Rhinestone Cowboy.

The Rhinestone Cowboy has finally left us for the great cattle ranch in the sky. Glen Campbell is no more having breathed his last on August 8, 2017 after a long hard battle with Alzheimer’s that stole from him the last 7 years of his life.

Rhinestone Cowboy is the thirtieth album by American singer/guitarist Glen Campbell, released in 1975. It also contained the Japanese only track "Coming Home" and the B-side "Record Collectors Dream". Country Boy (You Got Your Feet in . " (Dennis Lambert, Brian Potter) - 3:08.

Album: Rhinestone Cowboy (1975). Charted: 4 1. Get the Sheet Music License This Song. Rhinestone Cowboy" gained three Grammy nominations and was the Country Music Association's Song of the Year for 1976. In 1977, the song earned Weiss the Nashville Songwriters' Association International's Songwriter of the Year award. Although it wasn't used in the film, this was the inspiration for the 1984 movie Rhinestone, starring Dolly Parton and Sylvester Stallone .

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Originally released in July 1975, Glen Campbell’s Rhinestone Cowboy was the legendary music star’s first No. 1 hit on Billboard’s Country Albums chart. The title track, a No. 1 Country hit, remains Campbell’s signature tune. The album’s second single, Country Boy (You Got Your Feet in . told the story of this Arkansas boy’s life

Glen Campbell, the indelible voice behind 21 Top 40 hits including Rhinestone Cowboy, Wichita Lineman and By the Time I Get to Phoenix, died Tuesday. He was 81. A rep for Universal Music Group, Campbell’s record label, confirmed the singer’s death to Rolling Stone. During a career that spanned six decades, Campbell sold over 45 million records. In 1968, one of his biggest years, he outsold the Beatles

Early on in Rhinestone Cowboy, Glen Campbell sings that he's making his "comeback," a sentiment that can't help but seem to carry an autobiographical heft. While it is true that he was hardly off the charts in the early '70s, the quality of his music was a little inconsistent; the singles were often good, but his albums were burdened with schlock and erratic in quality

Many of Rhinestone Cowboy's lyrical themes reflected Campbell's own life at the time, both personally and professionally. One of the bonus tracks, "Quits", is a d song that was recorded during the original Rhinestone Cowboy studio sessions. Written by Danny O'Keefe, it is a heartbreaking song masterfully sung by the one and only Glen Campbell at a major pinnacle in his career. Joe Marchese (The Second Disc) describes "Quits" as: "A haunting elegy to a romance, it may have been too downbeat for the original album, but.