So what was Glen Campbell’s breakthrough hit? The answer is as clear as mud. At first we at the JW facebook team thought the John Hartford penned “Gentle on My Mind”, which we’ll share today, took the prize. This week in 1967 was the sixth of a twelve week run for “Gentle” on the Billboard country charts. But it peaked at #30, and two prior songs by Glen faired better —1962’s “Kentucky Means Paradise”, written by Merle Travis, a #20 Country charter w The Green River Boys, and “Burning Bridges”,

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