April 22, 1936

Grammy winner Glen Campbell, who was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2005, was born about six miles southwest of Delight (Pike County) in Billstown to Wes and Carrie Campbell. Some of his most popular songs were “By The Time I Get To Phoenix,” “Galveston,” and “Rhinestone Cowboy.” In 1996, Campbell became a first-year inductee into the Arkansas Entertainers Hall of Fame. He died in 2017.

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