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      • But, just what is it that makes Oklahoma born songwriter Jimmy L Webb so revered? Unlike so many other songwriters Webb is not only a great tunesmith, he is a fantastic wordsmith as well; few songwriters have a gift for both words and music greater than Webb’s. He’s also a brilliant arranger and orchestrator – he’s the complete package.
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    Jimmy Webb. Jimmy Layne Webb (born August 15, 1946) is an American songwriter, composer, and singer. He achieved success at an early age, winning the Grammy Award for Song of the Year at the age of 21. During his career, he established himself as one of America's most successful and honored songwriter/composers.

  3. May 15, 2019 · Slip Cover presents songs that infiltrated our DNA in years past and Jimmy has slimmed them down to their melodic intent, as instrumentals that are, as he says,”shaped” by their original lyrics. And he performs them with heart and and a touching soulfulness.

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  4. Apr 15, 2022 · Music. Jimmy Webb: 'I came pretty close to the edge of the abyss on a number of occasions' The songwriting legend escaped the church, then found early success that led to a life of excess. His songs put him in the company of Sinatra and Streisand, but he really wanted to get stoned with Mick Jagger. Jane Graham. 15 Apr 2022. Jimmy Webb.

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  5. 2016 interview with Jimmy Webb, a consummate pop songwriter, whose credits include "MacArthur Park," "Wichita Lineman" and so many more.

  6. May 26, 2024 · But Webb’s secret transistor radio was crackling out hits from the likes of the Shirelles and Little Anthony and the Imperials and he started copying those hits on the piano his father made him keep in the garage.

  7. Apr 15, 2020 · For those who see pink, animal-print, and skintight as the holy trinity, Jimmy Webb was a legend, first as the longtime manager of the East Village punk fashion mecca Trash & Vaudeville, and...

  8. Aug 11, 2024 · Jimmy Webb (born August 15, 1946, Elk City, Oklahoma, U.S.) is an American singer-songwriter who wrote multiple easy-listening hit pop songs beginning in the 1960s. Two of his early songs, “Up, Up and Away” (1967) and “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” (1968), won several Grammy Awards in the late 1960s—Webb himself won the 1967 Grammy ...