Hey, Little One/A New Place in the Sun [Import]

Glen Campbell | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 8, 2009)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: 101 DISTRIBUTION
• ASIN: B002P3BAV8
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,148 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Hey, Little One

2. Elusive Butterfly

3. That s All That Matters

4. Break My Mind

5. Take Me Back

6. I Don t Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)

7. I Wanna Live

8. It s Over

9. Turn Around And Look at Me

10. Woman, Woman

11. The Impossible Dream (The Quest)

12. Freeborn Man

13. The Last Letter

14. She Called Me Baby

15. Visions Of Sugarplums

16. I Have No One To Love Me Anymore

17. The Legend Of Bonnie And Clyde

18. A Place In The Sun

19. Have I Stayed Away Too Long?

20. Within My Memory

See all 22 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Digitally remastered two-fer from the veteran American singer and guitar picker containing a pair of his original albums on one CD: Hey Little One and A Place In The Sun. Both originally released in 1968, these albums reached #1 in the U.S. Country charts and the Top 30 in the Pop charts. Though Glen is highly regarded as one of the great Pop and Country vocalists of the '60s and '70s, he began his professional career as an in-demand session guitarist, playing on many popular recordings by The Beach Boys and others. Unlike most of his contemporaries, Campbell handled most of the lead guitar work on his own solo albums. 22 tracks. BGO. 2009.

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Glen Campbell, August 24, 2011

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John S. Staworski (Ft Walton Beach, FL) - See all my reviews
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The songs on this CD (Which is actually two [2] vinyl albums on 1-CD) hold very special memories for me. It's wonderful to relive those times (And memories), even after all these years.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A New Place in the Sun, March 8, 2010

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For Glen Campbell fans, this is a must have. Trying to replace records with cd's is work, but this is an easy decision. I will purchase any cd on an older album, just keep them coming!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A well done 2 Lp reissue, November 28, 2011

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My first comment is that the remastering job on this brought out nuances I don't hear on the several (I count eight, two still sealed) Capitol vinyl Lps on this artist (I was inspired by Bill Griggs at the Buddy Holly Memorial Society to be a "completist" vinyl junkie). Personally, I believe that BY THE TIME I GET TO PHOENIX and HEY LITTLE ONE are Campbell's best '60s albums, while starting with the major Capitol push and product over-saturation that began going into Christmas, 1968 --the "Wichita Lineman" period--, the quality of his deep Lp tracks got spotty to poor, especially "Fate of Man" (Lp WICHITA LINEMAN), "Friends" (GALVESTON), and "Everytime I Itch I Wind Up Scratchin' You" (GALVESTON and B-side to "Galveston" 45), while he made some great singles until 1970. If you check his Lp publishing from 1968-70, any song quality shortcomings tended to be most obvious with those having his publishing interests, Kayteekay Music and Glen Campbell Music, which was fairly standard at the time when an artist cashed in on placing his own publishing on Lp cuts (see Sonny James Capitol Lp credits if you wish to find an extreme example of all the budget being put into a hit single and filler on the Lp). Anyway, I think HEY LITTLE ONE is one of his two greatest albums.

On the other hand, A NEW PLACE IN THE SUN was a quicky filler album culled from earlier sessions. No hit single, not a 45 track A or B side in the bunch. It's a nice package, some good to great songs, but it appears Capitol was pressed for product on a rising to HOT artist and shoved this album out in the pipeline while readying his major push from easy listening/crossover C&W artist to top-of-the-line pop act to rival the Beatles. The one track that stands out, almost shouts "featuring the hit single" in both quality of the groove and placement (track one, side one) on the Lp, is "Freeborn Man." This track actually pre-dates his recording of "Gentle On My Mind," which was a continuation of Campbell's folk-rock theme of "Universal Soldier," "Private John Q.," and "Gentle On My Mind," albeit dressed up with strings and especially horns by Al DeLory. You get a flavor of Campbell's "old" folk-rock style with "Freeborn Man" that he and Capitol abandoned to pursue a softer, what Capitol called "Good Music" (euphemism at the label's promo dept. for "middle of the road" and "easy listening" programing), sound. If you want to follow "Freeborn Man" back before Campbell's recording, find Keith Allison's Columbia version, dating April, 1967, on the backside of his "Louise" 45 and track on KEITH ALLISON IN ACTION CS 9441; Campbell was at those sessions, produced by Gary Usher (natch -- GC was on loads of Usher's productions: Super Stocks, Knights, lots of hot rod 1963-64 recordings, and including Usher's work on Decca 45s).