Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Album Reviews # 71 Glen Campbell - Greatest Hits - 5 Try a Little Kindness


As with Everything a Man Could Ever Need, this is necessary filler between the glorious peaks of this album. There's very little to say about it apart from noting its rather odd AAA, BBB rhyming pattern. But it's no Try a Little Tenderness, and its 'be nice to people, because it's a good thing to do and you don't want to be like the straights' message doesn't really wash. Because it's actually as straight as you can possibly get. Probably the weakest song on the record though I've never really noticed it despite listening to the album for years which indicates again that it slots in. It probably tells a tale about Campbell of a different sort from much of the rest of this album as an all-American journeyman. He did make over sixty records over the course of his career after all and you certainly wouldn't want to have to listen through to them end to end. Written by Curt Sapaugh and Bobby Austin, and from the album of the same name, it reached # 23 in the US Billboard Singles Chart in 1970.



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