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Jimmy
Webb
"One
can not write songs like 'MacArthur Park' every day. I have no
control over what comes. I rise in the morning and the compositions
flow out. What you do is valid, if you feel that it means something
to yourself. It has always been a draw between my radical and
conservative points of view - I am either being called a Las Vegas
songwriter or someone who contributed to start the Vietnam war."
Birth Name:
Jimmy Webb
Induction Year: 1990
Date of Birth: 8/15/1946
Place of Birth:
Elk City, OK |
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Education:
College--San
Bernardino Valley College; studied music |
Career Milestones:
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1952--learned
to play the piano |
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1958--wrote
first song, "Someone Else" |
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1964--moved
to California; wrote "Didn't We" while in college |
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1965--headed
to Hollywood and landed first job in a record studio |
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1966--signed
contract with Johnny Rivers Music Company; Rivers put him in contact
with the group the 5th Dimension |
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1967--the
singles, "Up, Up and Away" (recorded by the 5th Dimension)
and "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" (recorded by Glen
Campbell) released |
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1968--released
first solo-LP, "Jim Webb Sings Jim Webb" |
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1968--single,
"MacArthur Park" released, recorded by Richard Harris |
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1968--"Wichita
Lineman" (recorded by Glen Campbell) goes to #1 on the Country Charts |
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1968--began
film scoring career, with title song, "Montage," written
for the James Garner-Doris Day comedy, "How Sweet It Is!" |
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1981--moved
to New York City to try to break through on Broadway |
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1982--scored
the animated feature film, "The Last Unicorn" |
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mid
1980s--Columbia Records released "The Animals' Christmas,"
a cantata, featuring Amy Grant, Art Garfunkel, and the London
Symphony Orchestra |
Awards:
1968--ACM\Song
of the Year\Wichita Lineman
1986--National
Academy of Popular Music\Songwriters' Hall of Fame induction
1993--National
Academy of Songwriters\Lifetime Achievement Award
Catalog
Highlights
By
the Time I Get to Phoenix
Artists:
Glen Campbell
- MacArthur
Park
- Artists:
Richard Harris, Donna Summer, Waylon Jennings and the Kimberlys
- Wichita
Lineman
- Artists:
Glen Campbell
- Galveston
- Artists:
Glen Campbell
- All
I Know
- Artists:
Art Garfunkel
- Up,
Up and Away
- Artists:
5th Dimension, Benny Goodman
- Honey
Come Back
- Artists:
Glen Campbell
- Highwayman
- Artists:
Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson
- Didn't
We
- Artists:
Barbra Streisand, Frank Sinatra
- The
Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
- Artists:
Joe Cocker, Judy Collins
- The
Worst That Could Happen
- Artists:
Brooklyn Bridge
Comments:
Signed
first publishing contract with Motown (Jobete Music); first song
published was "Honey Come Back"
Inducted
into the National Academy of Popular Music Songwriter's Hall of Fame |