12March1969 "Today I Started Loving You Again" / "The Legend of Bonnie and Clyde" - Merle Haggard

Viewers are treated to Merle Haggard (with backup from Glen Campbell and John Hartford) performing "Today I Started Loving You Again" and "The Legend of Bonnie and Clyde" on The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour broadcast of March 12, 1969 on CBS-TV.

There is no video available on YouTube of the entire episode.

Originally posted on the Phoenix Rising channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@phoenixrising-theglencampb330/videos

Videos clips of Glen Campbell on Smothers Brothers shows, The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour and beyond, are available on this playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlGsAJWvjFoLt8USjRi-KQgDNuYspqfeq

For those interested in watching full episodes of the classic CBS-TV variety series The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (1967-1969), they are available here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlGsAJWvjFoKkIOgfTUCgujlKH7qRCB8d

From Wikipedia:

About "Today I Started Loving You Again":

"Today I Started Loving You Again" is a 1968 song written by Merle Haggard and Bonnie Owens. Haggard first recorded it as a B-side to his No. 1 hit, "The Legend of Bonnie and Clyde," but it failed to chart. It also appears on his 1968 album, "The Legend of Bonnie & Clyde." The song was later recorded by Al Martino in 1969, followed by many other artists, including Waylon Jennings 1968, Conway Twitty 1968, Marty Robbins 1968, Gene Summers 1980, Charlie McCoy 1972, David Peters, Jerry Lee Lewis 1968, Kenny Rogers and the First Edition 1972, Bettye Swann 1969, Connie Smith 1969, Barbara Mandrell 1974, Sammi Smith 1975, Bobby Bland 1975, Emmylou Harris 1986, Skeeter Davis 1970 and Dolly Parton 1996. More recently it was recorded by Jeff Carson and Merle Haggard for Carson's 1997 album, Butterfly Kisses.

About Merle Haggard:

Merle Ronald Haggard (April 6, 1937 – April 6, 2016) was an American country music singer, songwriter, guitarist, and fiddler. Widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential figures in country music, he was a central pioneer of the Bakersfield sound. With a career spanning over five decades, Haggard had 38 number-one hits on the US country charts, several of which also made the Billboard all-genre singles chart.

Haggard overcame a troubled childhood, criminal convictions and time in prison to launch a successful country music career. He gained popularity with his songs about the working class; these occasionally contained themes contrary to the anti–Vietnam War sentiment of some popular music of the time.

Haggard received many honors and awards, including a Kennedy Center Honor (2010); a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (2006); a BMI Icon Award (2006); and induction into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame (1977); Country Music Hall of Fame (1994) and Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame (1997). He died of pneumonia on April 6, 2016—his 79th birthday—at his ranch in Shasta County, California.

About Glen Campbell:

Glen Travis Campbell (April 22, 1936 – August 8, 2017) was an American country musician and actor. He was best known for a series of hit songs in the 1960s and 1970s, and for hosting "The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour" on CBS television from 1969 until 1972. Campbell released 64 albums, selling over 45 million records worldwide, including twelve gold albums, four platinum albums, and one double-platinum album.

Born in Billstown, Arkansas, Campbell spent several years playing with the group of instrumentalists in Los Angeles later known as "The Wrecking Crew." After becoming a solo artist, he placed a total of 80 different songs on either the Billboard Country Chart, Billboard Hot 100, or Adult Contemporary Chart, of which 29 made the top 10 and of which nine reached number one on at least one of those charts. Among Campbell's hits are "Universal Soldier," his first hit from 1965, along with "Gentle on My Mind" (1967), "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" (1967), "Dreams of the Everyday Housewife" (1968), "Wichita Lineman" (1968), "Galveston" (1969), "Rhinestone Cowboy" (1975), and "Southern Nights" (1977).

In 1967, Campbell won four Grammys in the country and pop categories. For "Gentle on My Mind", he received two awards in country and western; "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" did the same in pop. Three of his early hits later won Grammy Hall of Fame Awards (2000, 2004, 2008), while Campbell himself won the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012. He owned trophies for Male Vocalist of the Year from both the Country Music Association (CMA) and the Academy of Country Music (ACM), and took the CMA's top award as 1968 Entertainer of the Year. Campbell played a supporting role in the film "True Grit" (1969), which earned him a Golden Globe nomination for Most Promising Newcomer. He also sang the title song, which was nominated for an Academy Award. Campbell announced he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2011 and retired in 2013 after recording his final song, "I'm Not Gonna Miss You." He died from the disease on August 8, 2017, at the age of 81.