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Happy birthday in Heaven, Glen Campbell! The singer was born on this day, April 22, in 1936. Campbell was born the seventh of 12 children to John Campbell, a sharecropper, and his wife Carrie. After his uncle, known as Boo, taught Campbell to play the guitar as a child, the future star relocated to Albuquerque, N.M., as a teenager, to play in his uncle s band. In 1958, Campbell formed his own band, the Western Wranglers, and in 1960, he relocated to Los Angeles to become a session musician. Campbell s debut album, Big Bluegrass Special, was released in 1962 on Capitol Records, but it only produced one hit, Kentucky Means Paradise, which peaked at No. 20. Campbell didn t earn another Top 20 hit until Burning Bridges, which was the title track of his fifth studio album, was released in 1966. (Not that Campbell was working solely on his solo projects during this time: He also sang with the Beach Boys, filling in for an ailing Brian Wilson from the end of 1964 until the spring

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