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40 years ago: Glen Campbell's 'Rhinestone Cowboy' hit No. 1

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Larry Weiss said his song "Rhinestone Cowboy" was written about the cowboys like Roy Rogers and Gene Autry, who he saw in movies and on television when he was a kid.

Glen Campbell heard Weiss' 1974 song and decided to record his own version — which hit No. 1 on the Billboard chart 40 years ago.