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"Rhinestone Cowboy" is a song written by Larry Weiss. First recorded by its author, it was released on his 20th Century Records album Black and Blue Suite in 1974. Weiss's version was also released as a single by Neil Diamond; although it received adult contemporary radio airplay, it was not a Top 40 hit. Subsequently Glen Campbell recorded a version that topped the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks (September 6 and 13 charts) in September 1975. It has also been covered by Soul Asylum, Belle and Sebastian, Charley Pride, White Town, DJ Z-Trip & DJ P and Radiohead. Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... 20th Century Records was (not surprisingly) a subsidiary of film studio 20th Century Fox. ... Neil Leslie Diamond (born January 24, 1941) is an American singer, songwriter and sometime Actor. ... For the Scottish broadcaster, see Glenn Campbell (broadcaster). ... The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. ... Soul Asylum is an alternative rock band formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1983. ... Belle and Sebastian (sometimes written as Belle & Sebastian) are a Scottish paper pop band formed in Glasgow in January 1996. ... Charley Frank Pride (born March 18, 1938 in Sledge, Mississippi) is a former Negro League baseball player who became one of the very few African Americans to have a successful career in modern country music. ... White Town is a techno-pop act from the United Kingdom, and is the work of one man, Jyoti Mishra (TOO FUNNY!!). Mishra was born in Rourkela, India, on July 30, 1966, and has lived in England since the age of three. ... Radiohead are an English rock band that formed in Oxfordshire in 1986. ...

The song became Glen Campbell's signature song and won numerous awards from the Country Music Association, Academy of Country Music and American Music Awards. It was also nominated for a Grammy. The Country Music Association (CMA) was founded in 1958 in Nashville, Tennessee. ... The Academy of Country Music (ACM) was founded in 1964 in Los Angeles, California. ... The American Music Awards show is one of four annual major American music awards shows (the others being the Billboard Music Awards, the Grammy Awards, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony). ... Grammy Award statuette The Grammy Awards, presented by the Recording Academy (an association of Americans professionally involved in the recorded music industry) for outstanding achievements in the recording industry, is one of four major music awards shows held annually in the United States (the Billboard Music Awards, the American Music...

Johnny Carson parodied this song in a famous Tonight Show skit, and is one of the few times Carson actually sang a complete song on his show, albeit, as a comedy routine. For other persons named John Carson, see John Carson (disambiguation). ... The First Lady of the United States, Laura Bush and current host Jay Leno. ...

Rhinestone Cowboy continues to be heard in movies and television, making the soundtracks of High School High and Daddy Day Care, as well as being used in an episode of Desperate Housewives. High School High is a 1996 comedy about an inner city high school in the Los Angeles, California, area, starring Jon Lovitz, Tia Carrere, Mekhi Phifer, and Louise Fletcher. ... Daddy Day Care is a 2003 comedy film, starring Eddie Murphy. ... Desperate Housewives is an American television comedy-drama series, created by Marc Cherry, who also serves as show runner, and produced by ABC Studios, The Walt Disney Companys main television studio, and Cherry Productions. ...

The single was produced by Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter and was released as a single on Capitol Records in late May 1975. The album of the same name, was released in September 1975. Capitol Records is a major United States-based record label, owned by EMI. // The Capitol Records company was founded by the songwriter Johnny Mercer in 1942, with the financial help of movie producer Buddy DeSylva and the business acumen of Glenn Wallichs, (1910-1971) (owner of Music City, at the...