Jimmy Webb
Jimmy Webb ( born August 15, 1946 in Elk City, Oklahoma) is an American songwriter and composer.
Webb, who considered Burt Bacharach as his role model and how it can be attributed to the area of high end entertainment music in the mid- 1960s began to write songs. His first success By the Time I Get to Phoenix, but not with the original recording of Johnny Rivers, but in the soon published version of Glen Campbell. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, it glückten more Top Ten hits, including Up up and Away ( The Fifth Dimension ), Wichita Lineman ( Glen Campbell) or All I Know ( Art Garfunkel ). His most notable composition is perhaps the over seven minutes for a single unusually long title MacArthur Park, which was sung by Richard Harris in 1968 and reached the second place in the U.S. charts. Less successful, but no less remarkable, the albums Sunshower (1969 ) by Thelma Houston and The Supremes Produced and Arranged by Jimmy Webb ( 1972) in which Webb except as a composer served by the Supremes, as a producer and arranger.
Jimmy Webb has in addition also composes purely instrumental music; comes from him, for example, the soundtrack of The Last Unicorn for the same cartoon. He received several Grammys in the fields of music, text and arrangement. As a singer and performer of his own pieces, he is, however, only moderately successful. His solo albums are listed in the discography.