Audio Autopsy, 1968 & Beyond: Dreams of the Everyday Songwriter, Novelist, & Playwright: Chris Gantry

Later a peyote enthusiast, friend of Johnny Cash & Shel Silverstein, this award-winning playwright wrote the lilting MOR hit, "Dreams of the Everyday Housewife," which Glen Campbell took to #32 in '68

He may not have invented the phrase, “Renaissance Man,” but Chris Gantry (above) certainly seems to have perfected (if not enthusiastically embraced) it.

Nearing 80 (which he’ll turn three days before…