The Best of Glen Campbell

I posted this on Facebook when Glen Campbell died, but figured I would wait to print it here...

I only have one Glen Campbell album, "The Best of Glen Campbell," from 1976 (pictured).  This was from an era when Capitol Records was running a campaign titled "The Greatest Music Ever Sold," with lots of compilations aimed at the holiday market.  This LP hit #11, and even though Glen could have probably filled three LPs with hits at that point -- and even though a lot of the other Capitol compilations were double albums -- they pared it down to his biggest hits on the POP -- not country -- charts for one disk.  So you don't have to listen to "Dreams of the Everyday Housewife," "Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream)," "True Grit," "Burning Bridges," "Manhattan, Kansas," "Bonaparte's Retreat," "Don't Pull Your Love," "Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye," "Sunflower" or any of his '70s countrypolitan tunes (blech).  You also don't get the mellow theme to the Clint Eastwood film "Any Which Way You Can," which came out later (1980).
(For a good survey of his earlier country-only hits, check out 1971's "Greatest Hits," which only has 50 percent overlap with "Best of.")
Another weird aspect of the 1976 album is that the cover photo (complete with 1970s Dad hair) was apparently taken by Kenny Rogers?
I like this "Best of" not only because it's wall-to-wall enjoyable, but it doesn't substitute live versions for any of the hits (as later compilations seem to).  Beware of the CD of this album; it has a very different track list, but the same cover.
One Glen Campbell cut that never appears on any of his albums is 1965's "Guess I'm Dumb," a tune that Brian Wilson wrote and produced for Glen as he left the touring version of the Beach Boys and headed out on a solo career. Even the backing vocals are by the Beach Boys; it's like a lost BB single.
As a bonus... here's a video I must have watched a thousand times when I was little: Glen Campbell from the Smothers Brothers' 20th Anniversary (February 3, 1988), joined at one point by the great John Hartford.  Within that medley, there's an excerpt of their 1968 appearance, which is available here.