Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Turn Around Look At Me
2. Kentucky Means Paradise (w/The Green River Boys)
3. Too Late To Worry-Too Blue To Cry
4. Universal Soldier
5. Guess I’m Dumb
6. Burning Bridges
7. Just To Satisfy You
8. Less Of Me
9. Gentle On My Mind
10. Crying
11. By The Time I Get To Phoenix
12. Tomorrow Never Comes
13. Hey Little One
14. I Wanna Live
15. Turn Around Look At Me (new version)
16. Legend Of Bonnie & Clyde
17. Let It Be Me (w/Bobbie Gentry)
18. Scarborough Fair/Canticle (w/Bobbie Gentry)
19. Wichita Lineman
20. Dreams Of A Everyday Housewife
21. Reason To Believe

Disc 2:

1. Galveston
2. Where’s The Playground Susie
3. If This Is Love
4. True Grit
5. Try A Little Kindness
6. Honey Come Back
7. One Pair Of Hands
8. All I Have To Do Is Dream (w/Bobbie Gentry)
9. Everything A Man Could Ever Need
10. It’s Only Make Believe
11. Pave Your Way Into Tomorrow
12. MacArthur Park
13. Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream)
14. The Last Time I Saw Her
15. I Say A Little Prayer/By The Time I… (w/Anne Murray)
16. The Last Thing On My Mind
17. I Knew Jesus Before He Was A Star
18. I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry
19. Houston (I Coming To See You)
20. Bonaparte’s Retreat
21. The Moon’s A Harsh Mistress

Disc 3:

1. Rhinestone Cowboy
2. Country Boy (You Got Your Feet In LA)
3. Arkansas
4. Don’t Pull Your Love/Then You Can Tell Me…
5. Southern Nights
6. Sunflower
7. God Only Knows
8. I’m Gonna Love You
9. Can You Fool
10. Highwayman
11. Something About You… (w/Rita Coolidge)
12. Any Which Way You Can (Movie Theme)
13. I Was Too Busy Loving You
14. Faithless Love
15. A Lady Like You
16. Hand That Rocks The Cradle (w/Steve Wariner)
17. I Have You
18. If These Walls Could Speak
19. Unconditional Love
20. She’s Gone Gone Gone
21. Show Me Your Way (w/Anne Murray)
22. Only One Life
23. Somebody Like That

Disc 4:

1. Impossible Dream
2. Lord’s Prayer
3. Didn’t We
4. My Way
5. Try to Remember/The Way We Were (Medley)
6. Galveston (ballad arrangement)
7. Amazing Grace
8. Classical Gas
9. Beach Boys Medley-Good Vibrations/Help Me Rhonda/Surfer Girl/Surfin USA
10. Mansion In Branson
11. Let It Be Me (w.Debbie Campbell)
12. The Highway Man
13. William Tell Overture
14. Still Within The Sound Of My Voice
15. Time In A Bottle

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #118749 in Music
• Released on: 2003-10-07
• Number of discs: 4
• Formats: Box set, Original recording remastered

Customer Reviews

Campbell shines despite incompetent record label....
The remastered music is grand (and yes, that's the word for it!)! To hear the lush pop sound of hits like "Wichita Lineman" and "By The Time I Get To Phoenix" along with the stellar, if less well-known (to casual fans), gems like "God Only Knows" and "The Moon's A Harsh Mistress" is to truly hear what great pop music can sound like. Then to hear Campbell shift effortlessly into the folk-tinged "Gentle On My Mind" and down right country of "Faithless Love" is to be reminded of what a giant talent he was (is). Obviously, Jimmy Webb tunes abound: "Galveston", "Didn't We", "The Highwayman", "If These Walls Could Speak" plus some already mentioned and more. Another reminder of one of the greatest pop music marriages ever - Webb music and lyrics with Campbell's brilliant delivery. You don't encounter this level of artistry much in pop music anymore. This is great music! The downside is, as has unfortunately been the case often in Campbell's career, his old label still refuses to give him his due and much of this boxset (especially the "live" disc four - the exception being a beautiful ballad version of "Galveston") has the feeling of a rush job in terms of selecting the music and even the accuracy of some of the liner notes, song information, etc. It's a shame because Campbell - at his best - has few rivals. Perhaps one day his old label will realize that. In any event, the eighty song effort is well worth the money. If you're a person tired of music that seems to have only one thundering beat and lyrics that rarely stray from the overtly dumb and repititious (to say nothing of just being badly written), The Legacy is your salvation.

Strong Collection, Skip The Live Disc
Once one of the world's most popular recording artists, Glen Campbell's music has often been dismissed in recent years as lightweight. This 80-track box set quashes that notion, revealing Campbell to be a supreme stylist and expert song selector who managed to make great music over a lengthy period of time.

Disc one leads off with Campbell's 1961 minor pop hit "Turn Around, Look At Me" on the Crest label, his voice blandly unrecognizable. Joining Capitol Records in 1962, the enclosed follow-ups like the bluegrassy "Kentucky Means Paradise" (1962) and the folky "Universal Soldier" (1965) - while stronger vocally - also experienced only minor chart success. His status as a top session guitarist allowing him to linger on Capitol's roster, Campbell finally broke through in 1967 with the breezy "Gentle On My Mind" and poignant "By The Time I Got To Phoenix." 1968 would prove even more successful, with the waltz-like "I Wanna Live," the Bobbie Gentry duet "Let It Be Me," and the melodic "Wichita Lineman" among the goodies from that year which end this disc.

Disc two begins strongly, with the landmark 1969 anti-war song "Galveston." Like "By The Time I Get To Phoenix" and "Wichita Lineman," "Galveston" was written by Jimmy Webb, who also wrote for Campbell the wistful "Where's The Playground Susie" (1969) and the regretful "Honey Come Back" (1970). As Webb went into a sudden creative decline, Campbell would rely on remakes for his next set of hits, "It's Only Make Believe" (1970) and "Dream Baby" (1971). The remainder of disc two (covering 1971 - 1974) finds Campbell making some of his most innovative recordings - such as the rocking "I Knew Jesus (Before He Was A Star)" and Webb's "The Moon's A Harsh Mistress" - which unfortunately did not sell well.

Disc three's opener "Rhinestone Cowboy" (1975) returned Campbell to the top of the charts and led to more pop success, with the similarly themed hit "Country Boy (You've Got Your Feet In L.A.)" and the Allen Toussaint scorcher "Southern Nights" (1977). Thereafter, Campbell's success would be limited to country, charting there regularly through 1991. The best of these recordings - such as the maternal tribute "The Hand That Rocks The Cradle" with Steve Wariner (1987), the bouncy "She's Gone Gone Gone" (1989), and the touching "Unconditional Love" (1991) - make up the majority of disc three, the first thorough compilation of this under-appreciated era of Campbell's career.

Disc four is comprised of 15 live performances recorded between 1968 and 2001. The lineup showcases his religious convictions ("The Lord's Prayer," Amazing Grace") and guitar wizardry ("Classical Gas," "The William Tell Overture"), with the greatest emphasis placed on schmaltzy fare ("The Impossible Dream," "My Way," "Try To Remember/The Way We Were"). Aside from a stunning reworking of "Galveston," the recordings on this disc are highly disposable and suffer from subpar sound quality. Another disc of studio tracks - including more from his celebrated 1968 album with Bobbie Gentry - would have been preferred.

Solid If Flawed Box Set Of Pop-Country Legend
The 4-CD "The Legacy(1961-2002)" box set is the first Glen Campbell collection to include all his biggest hits(Gentle On My Mind,Wichita Lineman,Galveston,Honey Come Back,It's Only Make Believe,Country Boy(You've Got Your Feet In L.A),Southern Nights and,of course,Rhinestone Cowboy)with great early flop singles(Universial Soldier,the Brian Wilson written-and-produced Guess I'm Dumb)terrific album tracks(Cryin,Reason To Believe,If This Is Love,Less Of Me,The Last Thing On My Mind,Highwayman among others)minor hits that deserved better(I Knew Jesus(Before He Was Star,Hey Little One,True Grit,Houston(I'm Comin To See You),Sunflower,Can You Fool)and everthing in between(duets with Bobbie Gentry,Anne Murray,Rita Coolidge and Steve Wariner,his 80's country hits like A Lady Like You,She's Gone,Gone,Gone and Faithless Love).The only problem is the live disc.There's some good stuff,like the ballad version of Galveston and the Beach Boys medley,but it suffers from too many run-of-the-mill performences and stilted latter-day tracks.It would have been better if they just kept it to three discs or devote all four discs to his studio recordings which are superior to live cuts.But despite this flaws and a missing songs(Oh Happy Day,See You On Sunday,the hit version of Still Within The Sound Of My Voice),this remains an essential entry into the Glen Campbell catalog.