It's Just a Matter of Time (Glen Campbell album)
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It's Just a Matter of Time is the 42nd album
Album
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 by American
United States
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 singer/guitarist
Guitarist
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 Glen Campbell
Glen Campbell
Glen Travis Campbell is an American country music singer, guitarist, television host and occasional actor. He is best known for a series of hits in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as for hosting a variety show called The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour on CBS television.During his 50 years in show...

, released in 1985 (see 1985 in music
1985 in music
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).

Track listing

Side 1:
  1. "It's Just a Matter of Time
    It's Just a Matter of Time (Brook Benton song)
    "It's Just a Matter of Time" is a popular song written by Brook Benton and Clyde Otis. The original recording by Benton topped the Billboard rhythm & blues chart in 1959 and peaked at No...

    " (Clyde Otis
    Clyde Otis
    Clyde Otis, born in Prentiss, Mississippi, , was an American songwriter and producer best known for his collaboration with singer Brook Benton, and for being one of the first African American A&R executive for a major label.According to the music licensing organization Broadcast Music Inc., Otis is...

    , Brook Benton
    Brook Benton
    Brook Benton was an American singer and songwriter who was popular with rock and roll, rhythm and blues, and pop music audiences during the late 1950s and early 1960s, when he scored hits such as "It's Just A Matter Of Time" and "Endlessly", many of which he co-wrote.He made a comeback in 1970...

    , Belford Hendricks) - 2:27
  2. "Wild Winds" (Dave Hanner) - 3:25
  3. "Cowboy Hall of Fame" (Jimmy Webb
    Jimmy Webb
    Jimmy Webb is an American songwriter, composer, and singer. He wrote numerous platinum selling classics, including "Up, Up and Away", "By the Time I Get to Phoenix", "Wichita Lineman", "Galveston", "The Worst That Could Happen", "All I Know", and "MacArthur Park"...

    ) - 2:33
  4. "Rag Doll" (Steve Eaton) - 4:00
  5. "Call Home" (Mike Reid, Troy Seals
    Troy Seals
    Troy Seals is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist.He is a member of the prominent Seals family of musicians that includes, Jim Seals and Dan Seals and Brady Seals...

    ) - 3:26


Side 2:
  1. "Do What You Gotta Do" (Jimmy Webb) - 3:44
  2. "Cowpoke" (Stan Jones) - 2:45
  3. "Shattered" (Jimmy Webb) - 3:30
  4. "Sweet Sixteen" (Arr. Glen Campbell) - 3:45
  5. "Gene Autry
    Gene Autry
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    , My Hero" (Marty Robbins
    Marty Robbins
    Martin David Robinson , known professionally as Marty Robbins, was an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist...

    ) - 3:12

Personnel

  • Glen Campbell- vocals, acoustic guitars and electric guitars
    Electric Guitars
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  • David Briggs
    David Briggs (American musician)
    David Briggs is an American keyboardist, record producer, arranger, composer and studio owner....

     - keyboards
    Keyboard instrument
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  • Shane Keister
    Shane Keister
    Shane Keister is an American musician. He is known for his work as a studio musician, writer, arranger and producer. He plays synthesizer, piano, Hammond B3, Synclavier, Fairlight, Fender Rhodes, and others.-History:...

     - synthesizer
    Synthesizer
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  • Eddie Bayers - drums
    Drum kit
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  • Steve Turner
    Steve Turner (drummer)
    Steve Turner is a studio and live drummer living in Nashville, Tennessee. He has toured and recorded with many artists, including Lou Rawls, Glen Campbell, Don Williams, Dolly Parton, and Travis Tritt. He is currently part of both Dolly Parton and Don Williams' live band. Steve was the drummer on...

     - drums
    Drum kit
    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

  • Larry Paxton - bass guitar
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

  • Buddy Emmons
    Buddy Emmons
    Buddy Emmons , is an American guitarist.Emmons has been called "The World's Foremost Steel Guitarist" and his talent is greatly admired by fellow steel guitarists...

     - steel guitar
    Steel guitar
    Steel guitar is a type of guitar or the method of playing the instrument. Developed in Hawaii in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a steel guitar is usually positioned horizontally; strings are plucked with one hand, while the other hand changes the pitch of one or more strings with the use...

  • Kenneth Bell - acoustic guitar
    Acoustic guitar
    An acoustic guitar is a guitar that uses only an acoustic sound board. The air in this cavity resonates with the vibrational modes of the string and at low frequencies, which depend on the size of the box, the chamber acts like a Helmholtz resonator, increasing or decreasing the volume of the sound...

  • Gregg Galbraith - acoustic guitar
    Acoustic guitar
    An acoustic guitar is a guitar that uses only an acoustic sound board. The air in this cavity resonates with the vibrational modes of the string and at low frequencies, which depend on the size of the box, the chamber acts like a Helmholtz resonator, increasing or decreasing the volume of the sound...

  • Brent Rowan - electric guitar
    Electric guitar
    An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...

  • Strings - The "A" Strings, Nashville String Machine
    Nashville String Machine
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Production

  • Producer - Harold Shedd
  • Engineers - Jim Cotton, Joe Scaife
  • Photography - Aaron Rappaport
  • Strings on "It's Just A Matter Of Time", "Wild Winds", "Call Home", "Cowpoke" arranged by Bergen White
  • Strings on "Cowboy Hall Of Fame", "Rag Doll", "Do What You Gotta Do", "Shattered", "Sweet Sixteen" arranged by Jimmy Webb
    Jimmy Webb
    Jimmy Webb is an American songwriter, composer, and singer. He wrote numerous platinum selling classics, including "Up, Up and Away", "By the Time I Get to Phoenix", "Wichita Lineman", "Galveston", "The Worst That Could Happen", "All I Know", and "MacArthur Park"...

  • Strings on "Cowboy Hall Of Fame" conducted by Al De Lory

Album

Chart (1985) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 32

Singles

Year Single Peak positions
US Country
Hot Country Songs
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CAN Country
RPM (magazine)
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1985 "It's Just a Matter of Time" 7 7
1986 "Cowpoke" 38
"Call Home" 52
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