Glen Campbell not only had an enormous number of hit singles he was also a staple of pop culture appearing in films and hosting a TV show during the late 60s and early 70s. Before that he was a respected studio musician and performer in search of a hit in the early 60s cutting great singles that nobody heard. All this makes his career difficult to compile even on a double-disc set with 40 songs so it shouldn t be a huge surprise that Razor & Tie s 1997 compilation The Glen Campbell Collection (1962-1989) for all its attributes is heavily flawed. Its biggest problem is its scope; by extending its reach to the end of the 80s when Campbell was still having hits out of sheer inertia and was far past his peak the listenability of the second disc nosedives about halfway through. Conversely there s not enough of his earlier singles such as his debut Universal Soldier and most egregiously the Brian Wilson-written Guess I m Dumb an achingly gorgeous song that is easily as good as any of the classic Pet Sounds-era Beach Boys singles. Of course the heart of this -- or any -- Glen Campbell collection is the hits he had in the late 60s and early 70s on Capitol Records when he was a fixture in the country and pop Top Ten with singles like Wichita Lineman Galveston and By the Time I Get to Phoenix. They re all here along with I Wanna Live Dreams of the Everyday Housewife Gentle on My Mind True Grit Where s the Playground Susie and on the second disc Rhinestone Cowboy Country Boy (You Got Your Feet in LA) Southern Nights and Sunflower. At the time of its release in 1997 it was more hits than any other Campbell collection and it still is a very good cross section of basics.