Written by John Hartford,which won two 1968 Grammy Awards. Hartford himself won the award for Best Folk Performance.

Complete your Glen Campbell collection. Another CD Format issue of this release is found in its entirety on the compilation Glen Campbell - Gentle On My Mind, By The Time I Get To Phoenix.

The centerpiece of the album is "Gentle on My Mind". Campbell heard songwriter John Hartford's original version on the radio and fell in love with this song about memories of a lost love.

Hartford himself won the award for Best Folk Performance. The other award, Best Country & Western Solo Vocal Performance, Male, went to American country music singer Glen Campbell for his version of Hartford's song. Campbell used "Gentle on My Mind" as the theme to his television variety show, The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour between 1969 and 1972.

Side 1: "Gentle On My Mind" (John Hartford) - 2:56.

Lyrics to "Gentle On My Mind" song by Glen Campbell: It's knowing that your door is always open And your path is free to walk That makes me tend to leave. That keeps you in the backroads By the rivers of my memory That keeps you ever gentle on my mind. It's not clinging to the rocks and ivy Planted on their columns now that bind me Or something that somebody said Because they thought we fit together walking It's just knowing that the world will not be cursing Or forgiving when I walk along some railroad track and find. That you're moving on the backroads By the rivers of my memory And for hours you're just gentle on my mind.

Gentle on My Mind (1972 Glen Campbell album). Side 1: "Gentle On My Mind" (John Hartford) - 2:56. Catch the Wind" (Donovan Phillips Leitch) - 2:15. Everything A Man Could Ever Need" (Mac Davis) - 2:26. Long Black Limousine" (Vern Stovall, Bobby George) - 2:15.

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 Ma. 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

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Album Meet Glen Campbell. Gentle on My Mind (2008 remix) Lyrics. It's knowing that your door is always open And your path is free to walk That makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag Rolled up and stashed behind your couch And it's knowing I'm not shackled By forgotten words and bonds And the ink stains that are dried upon some line That keeps you in the backroads By the. rivers of my memory That keeps you ever gentle on my mind. memory And for hours you're just gentle on my mind. Though the wheat fields and the clothes lines And the junkyards and the highways come between us And some other woman's cryin' to her mother 'Cause she turned and I was gone I still might run in silence tears of joy might stain my face And the summer sun might burn me 'til I'm blind But not to where I cannot. see you walkin' on the backroads By the rivers flowing gentle on my mind.