Fifty years ago today, Glen Campbell was at the top of the country chart with a song he felt he was meant to record.

Glen Campbell, the grinning, high-pitched entertainer whose dozens of hit singles included "Rhinestone Cowboy" and "Wichita Lineman" and whose appeal spanned country, pop, television and movies ...

He was a utility player in the greatest musical engine room Los Angeles ever assembled. You can hear his clean, articulate licks underpinning some of the most iconic songs of the pre-psychedelic era.