Like Bob Hope before him, Glen Campbell was a victim of a kind of hardening of affect. To recall this is to marvel all over again at the wild openness of the musical choices available in the late ’60s. And the singer interpreting them seemed to have risen directly out of the forlorn places he sang about: Wichita, Galveston, Phoenix. Glen Campbell came across as strangely pure. In ads for his 1970 film “Norwood,” Campbell was saddled with the moniker “Goodtime Glen.”Read more ▾

Source: New York Times December 28, 2017 09:00 UTC