Source: Good News Network
50 years ago today, “Wichita Lineman,” the 12th album by Glen Campbell was released. It peaked at No. 1 and spent 46 weeks on the Billboard 200 top albums chart.
The title track, Wichita Lineman, written by Jimmy Webb, gave Campbell a Gold Record, and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
WATCH him perform it, with a nice guitar solo, on Austin City Limits… (1968)MORE Good News on this Day:
- The first issue of the scientific journal Nature was published (1869)
- Will Rogers, the American actor, cowboy, humorist, newspaper columnist was born among the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma (1879)
- British archaeologist Howard Carter’s workers found the entrance to Egypt’s King Tutankhamun’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings (1922)
- Nellie T. Ross became the first woman to be elected governor of a U.S. state, and the only woman ever to have served as governor of Wyoming (1924)
- Happy 81st Birthday to Emmy-winning actress Loretta Swit, who played Major “Hot Lips” Houlihan, the head nurse on the beloved TV sit-com M*A*S*H, and authored “SWITHEART: The Watercolor Artistry & Animal Activism of Loretta Swit,” giving proceeds to animal rescue (1937)
- The rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopened with Beethoven’s Fidelio after it was totally destroyed in World War II (1955)
- The first Harry Potter film based on the blockbuster books by J.K….
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