Jimmy Webb

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Jimmy Webb, 2003
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Jimmy Webb (born August 15, 1946 in Elk City , Oklahoma ) is an American songwriter and composer .

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Webb, the Burt Bacharach regarded as his role model and like this the area of the upscale light music writing is attributed, began in the mid-1960s songs. His first success was By the Time I Get to Phoenix , but not with the original recording by Johnny Rivers , but in the version by Glen Campbell, which was released soon after . In the late 1960s and early 1970s, he had other top ten hits , including Up up and Away ( The 5th Dimension ), Wichita Lineman (Glen Campbell) and All I Know ( Art Garfunkel ). His most notable composition is perhaps MacArthur Park , which is unusually long at over seven minutes for a single and was sung by Richard Harris in 1968 and reached second place on the US charts . Less successful, but no less remarkable, are the albums Sunshower (1969) by Thelma Houston and The Supremes Produced and Arranged by Jimmy Webb (1972) by the Supremes , for which Webb also acted as a producer and arranger in addition to being a composer.

Jimmy Webb has also composed pure instrumental music; For example, he created the soundtrack The Last Unicorn for the cartoon of the same name. He has received several Grammys in music, lyrics, and arrangement. As a singer and interpreter of his own pieces, however, he is only moderately successful. His solo albums are listed in the discography.

He has also written The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress and Highwayman , which have been interpreted by many other artists.

The Rolling Stone listed Webb at number 44 of the 100 best songwriters of all time in 2015 .

Discography

Jimmy Webb, 2016

Film music

literature

  • Jimmy Webb: Tunesmith. Inside the Art of Songwriting. Hyperion, New York 1998, ISBN 0-7868-6131-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jimmy Webb in the US charts
  2. ^ LP Sunshower , Discogs.com
  3. ↑ LP The Supremes Produced And Arranged By Jimmy Webb , Discogs.com
  4. ↑ The 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time. Rolling Stone , August 2015, accessed August 7, 2017 .
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SURNAME Webb, Jimmy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Webb, Jim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American songwriter and composer
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Elk City , Oklahoma , USA