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    • Oct 17, 1968
    Glen Campbell nets his first two gold albums from the RIAA, for "By The Time I Get To Phoenix" and "Gentle On My Mind"
    Oct 18, 1968
    Glen Campbell wins two honors, Entertainer of the Year and Male Vocalist of the Year, during the second annual Country Music Association awards at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium. NBC tapes the show for the first time for a November telecast
    Oct 19, 1968
    Glen Campbell becomes the first artist in history to occupy four of the Top 5 positions on the Billboard country albums chart in the same week: "Gentle On My Mind," #1; "Bobbie Gentry & Glen Campbell," #2; "By The Time I Get To Phoenix," #4; and "A New Place In The Sun," #5
    Oct 26, 1968
    The duet project "Bobbie Gentry & Glen Campbell" occupies the #1 position on the Billboard country albums chart
    Nov 4, 1968
    Capitol releases Glen Campbell's album "Wichita Lineman"
    Nov 18, 1968
    One month after receiving his first two gold albums from the RIAA, Glen Campbell collects a third with "Wichita Lineman"
    Nov 19, 1968
    Roy Rogers and Dale Evans host the first broadcast of the Country Music Association awards, taped the previous month, on NBC. Glen Campbell wins Entertainer and Male Vocalist of the Year
    Nov 26, 1968
    Glen Campbell records "Galveston" at Los Angeles' Capitol Recording Studios
    Nov 30, 1968
    Glen Campbell's "Wichita Lineman" ascends to #1 on the Billboard country albums chart for the first of 20 total weeks
    Dec 19, 1968
    Glen Campbell breaks into song while playing a CIA agent in a Havana, Cuba, jail cell during a skit on "The Bob Hope Special" on NBC. The one-hour telecast, which has Hope attempting to rescue Santa Claus from kidnappers in a "Mission: Impossible" spoof, also features Carol Lawrence and Janet Leigh
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