Greatest Hits (Eco)

Glen Campbell | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 10, 2009)
• Original Release Date: 2009
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Capitol
• ASIN: B001NESP54
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #263 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #1 in Music > Country > Cowboy
  • #1 in Music > Country > Classic Country > Nashville Sound
  • #6 in Music > Pop > Oldies > General

Editorial Reviews

About the Artist

Glen Campbell has sold in excess of 40 million albums around the world, with 27 of the releases reaching Billboard's Top 10. Along with five Grammy® Awards, Campbell has also been named Male Vocalist Of The Year by both the Country Music Association and the Academy Of Country Music®

Product Description

2009 essential greatest hits collection gathers all of Glen Campbell's hit songs in one contemporary package. Contains 14 classic songs from his '60s and '70s heyday plus two tracks from his excellent 2008 album Meet Glen Campbell. Of the 16 tracks on this compilation, 12 of them reached the Top Ten, with five of those hitting the #1 position! Includes great hits like 'Gentle On My Mind', 'Rhinestone Cowboy', 'Wichita Lineman', 'By The Time I Get To Phoenix', 'Southern Nights' and many other unforgettable hits.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Glen Campbell One Final Time!, July 14, 2011

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Anthony Accordino (Massapequa Park, New York United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Greatest Hits (Eco) (Audio CD)

Glen Campbell is a country pop icon of sorts. His hit records of the sixties and seventies were AM radio top 40 staples that received tremendous airplay, during an era that if you were heard on a transistor radio at the beach, you were a star for sure. His collaborations with Jimmy Webb are songs that have given the youth of that generation memories that will last a lifetime. To this day, when I hear "Galveston", "Witchita Lineman", "By The Time i Get To Phoenix", "Gentle On My Mind", and "Southern nights", I can immediately recall the good-times of my youth as well as Glen Campbell's short lived variety show. Having said all this, it was a joy to listen to this remastered collection of Glen's hits, that includes a nice booklet of photo's, and song by song information regarding chart status and a short essay as well. I would not pay attention to the few audiophiles, who claim the sound is distorted or too loud? I have no idea what they are talking about, except they need something to complain about, which is always human nature. This cd is a fine sounding collection of Glen's most popular hits, and is a must for anyone looking for just one Glen Campbell cd, that presents a fine overview of his career. Glen is releasing his final cd in a few months, as it was announced that he has the beginnings of Alzheimer's disease. The 75 year old country pop star, will embark on a final tour, while he still has time to perform, and I hope each and everyone of us who enjoyed his music over the years, will get a chance to see him perform one final time.

37 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars finally service is done to timeless music, February 10, 2009

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David Insinga "DJI NEW JERSEY" (CLIFTON,NJ) - See all my reviews
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you cannot buy a glen campbell hits package that sounds as fantastic as this one.it started last year when glen recorded MEET GLEN CAMPBELL in a deal with walmart the cd was put out with bonus tracks RHINESTONE COWBOY,GALVESTON,BY THE TIME I GET TO PHOENIX,GENTLE ON MY MIND,and WICHITA LINEMAN.the songs were remixed to sound like more contemporary and were done marvelous.now capitol has released a new hits package that has these plus 11 more hits with the same dynamic sound . a must for all glen campbell fans.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Great music, terrible mastering, November 7, 2011

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Rob Mattheu (Somewhere in the US) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Greatest Hits (Eco) (Audio CD)

The great selling point of digital music was a wider dynamic range in which the loudest and softest portions of a song no longer had to be compressed to fit the narrower range of an LP or Cassette. Unfortunately, within the last 10 years, audio engineers seem to have forgotten all of this and now turn everything up to 11. While this may work for the latest metal release (no, it actually doesn't), what this does to most material is make it sound horrible. This is no exception.

I have a copy of Rhinestone Cowboy from a cheap foreign CD set, probably mastered off 2nd or 3rd generation source material. It sounds markedly better than what is on this MP3. Everything in the mix is turned up as loud as it will go to the point where the sound is distorted in the mix. This is absolutely the LAST thing you should be doing to music from this genre and era. If you've ever turned up music louder than your speakers can handle, or tried recording music at levels that are too loud, you'll get a sense of how brittle and terrible sounding 85% of this music sounds.

I started buying music in the CD era, and one of my greatest joys was putting on headphones and hearing sounds I never heard on vinyl or FM radio. These days, all you hear is LOUD. I know a lot of people can't tell the difference, but trust me, this set sounds terrible, which is a shame.