Campbell Delights Spa Crowd
by Don A. Metivier, The Post-Star, August 22, 1973
(editor’s note – Jud Strunk scheduled as of August 20, 1973, but not independently confirmed)
Glen Campbell, the pride of Delight, Ark., brought his show to the Saratoga Festival Monday evening.
The smooth singing, super-expert guitar playing Campbell delighted an audience of more than 7,000 with a well-planned and executed musical show.
He proved again, what Eddy Arnold had showed area audiences earlier this season at the Colonie Coliseum Theatre, singers should sing.
Campbell came onto the stage and sang, and that is what the crowd had come for and they loved it.
He presented most of his major hit recordings, introducing them himself, featured an amazing 19-year-old banjo wizard, Carl Jackson, and made his “just plain folks” personality quite believable.
Long recognized by musicians as one of the best guitar players in the country, he, like Nat Cole, started singing long after he had made his mark as a musician, and with the same great success.
His stage presence is perfect, his singing quite understandable and his total show a most pleasant evening’s entertainment.
He accepted a wooden plaque shaped like a guitar made for him by two girls from Hudson Falls, Joan and Marie D’Amico, and held it high for the audience to see.
His imitations of Elvis Presley and Tom Jones are put-downs of those singers’ antics on stage.
The Post-Star, August 20, 1973
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