![]() In 1964, he and his family moved to Southern California, where he attended San Bernardino Valley College studying music. He said he remembers praying at night to, one day, meet Campbell and have him record one of his songs. At the age of 14, he bought his first record, “Turn Around, Look at Me” by Glen Campbell. In the late 1950s, Jimmy began writing religious songs until he discovered…Elvis Presley. The Webbs were religious conservatives, and music listening in the home was restricted to country music and white gospel music. ![]() It was his mother who steered him to piano and organ though, and by age 12, he was playing in the choir of his Dad’s churches. Jimmy Webb was born on Augin Elk City, Oklahoma to a Baptist minister and former U.S. Jimmy Webb was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1986 and is the only artist ever to have received Grammy Awards for music, lyrics, and orchestration. He has enjoyed tremendous success for many years and his songs have been covered by many artists. He is not afraid to open himself up and be vulnerable reaching way down deep to where the bigger and purer diamonds lay as if, in the process of writing the song, he may also have discovered something special within himself. He delivers emotion that is immediately recognizable even if we don’t know what a “lineman for the county” is. In writing of the deep complexities of love, he uses language in a way that speaks to everyone yet there is a sophistication there that is enormously satisfying. His songs sound as if they have always existed natural and pure, and his way with telling a story makes others wish they had written them. There is no denying that Jimmy Webb is a romanticist through and through. This week we’re excited to bring you one of our favorites: the great Jimmy Webb! In this series, we will periodically profile the greatest songwriters in music and discuss some of their best work. Jimmy Webb currently resides on the North Shore of Long Island and spends much of his time on tour in the United States.Welcome to the second installment of our ongoing series, The Songwriters. He also produced a cantata titled “The Animal’s Christmas” in 1986. In 1982, he was credited with writing the score for “The Last Unicorn”, and in 1984, he was credited for writing the score for the famous television series “E/R”. Webb also wrote music for television series and film scores. His 1972 album, “Letters”, was thought of as his best solo album. He featured in his debut album “Words and Music” in 1970, and he went on to release five other albums in the same decade. In the 1970’s, Webb started to experiment with his own music. Another artist known as “Richard Harris” recorded an album which only had Jimmy Webb songs, and a single from that album, “MacArthur Park” would go on to win a Grammy. Webb also went on to win a Grammy for the song “Wichita Lineman”. It was reported that a million copies of Glen Campbell’s “Wichita Lineman” were sold. 1968 was a golden year for Webb, besides his Grammy Awards for “Up, Up and Away”, his songs for Glen Campbell, Johnny Maestro and The Brooklyn Bridge were also making headway in the Billboard Charts. Thus, Webb’s credibility as a songwriter skyrocketed. It not only won the highly coveted Song of the Year and Record of the Year Awards, it also won Best Pop Performance and Other Pop/Rock and Roll Performance Awards. The album, titled “Up, Up, and Away”, was known to have ‘cleaned up’ the 1968 Grammy Awards. Then, in 1967, Webb wrote five songs for a debut album for the group “The 5th Dimension”, for whom Rivers was producing. ![]() The success of “My Christmas Tree” helped him land a contract with producer “Johnny Rivers”, who recorded his second song “By the Time I Get to Phoenix”. With Motown, Webb wrote and released “My Christmas Tree”, which would be performed by “The Supremes”. He started off as a music transcriber for local publishing firms in Los Angeles, and after his success, he was awarded a songwriting contract with the publishing house named “Motown Records”. However, he was forced to cut short his education due to his mother’s death in 1965, even so, Webb embarked on a songwriting career. By the time he was twelve, Webb was a part of his father’s church choir.Īt the age of twenty, Webb enrolled at the San Bernardino Valley College, where he furthered his education in music. He was introduced to music at an early age and as a child he was made to take lessons on the piano and the organ. Jimmy Webb was born on Augin Elk City, Oklahoma.
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