Thomas P. Glaser

(1933- ) born at Spalding, Greeley County. Musician, songwriter, known as most successful member of Tompall & The Glaser Brothers, who, with his brothers Jim and Chuck, became one of the most honored country music groups in the 1960s, both as performers and songwriters; achieved 15 hit songs between 1966 and 1973, and received 1970 Best Vocal Group Award from the Country Music Association; the brothers owned a Nashville recording studio from which originated the influential "Outlaw" sound made famous by many artists; as an individual, Tompall worked with Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, and Jessi Colter, resulting in some of his creations being included in the RCA 1976 collection Wanted: The Outlaws, one of the biggest selling albums in pop music history at the time, with 2 million copies eventually sold. Consult Encyclopedia of Folk, Country, and Western Music, 2nd ed (St. Martin's Press, 1983) 742-745 and Sunday /Omaha/ World Herald Magazine of the Midlands, November 18, 1984, pp. 21-22 and Encyclopedia of Popular Music, 3rd ed, Vol 7 (MUZE UK Ltd, 1998) 5460.

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