Jimmy Webb

Jimmy Webb (født 15. august 1946 i Elk City i Oklahoma) er en  amerikansk musiker, sanger og komponist som har vunnet flere Grammy-priser i 1967. 

Webb er mest kjent for å ha skrevet en rekke sanger for andre artister, men har også selv opptrådt med egne sanger.
Blant de artister han har skrevet sanger for er blant andre:
 Glen Campbell («By the Time I Get to Phoenix», «Wichita Lineman», «Galveston»)
 Art Garfunkel («All I Know», «Skywriter», «Watermark»)
 Richard Harris («MacArthur Park»"')
 The Fifth Dimension («Up, Up and Away»)
 The Highwaymen (altså Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, og Kris Kristofferson) med sangen («The Highwayman»).
 Toto (altså David Paich, Steve Lukather og Joseph Williams) med sangen («Home Of The Brave»)

Jimmy Webb har også skrevet sangen «The Moon is a Harsh Mistress» som Radka Toneff spilte inn på sitt suksessalbum Fairytales.

 Diskografi 
 Album. LP-er og CD-er 
 Jim Webb Sings Jim Webb (1968)
 Words and Music (1970)
 And So: On (1971)
 Letters (1972)
 Land's End (1974)
 El Mirage (1977)
 Angel Heart (1982)
 Suspending Disbelief (1993)
 Ten Easy Pieces (1996)
 Twilight of the Renegades (2005)
 Live and at Large (2007)
 Just Across the River (2010)
 Still Within the Sound of My Voice (2013)

 Deltakelse på andres album 
 Up, Up, and Away (1967)  ved The 5th Dimension
 The Magic Garden (1967) ved The 5th Dimension
 Rewind (1967) ved Johnny Rivers
 A Tramp Shining (1968) ved Richard Harris
 The Yard Went On Forever (1968) ved Richard Harris
 Sunshower (1969) ved Thelma Houston
 The Supremes Produced and Arranged by Jimmy Webb (1972) ved The Supremes
 Reunion: The Songs of Jimmy Webb (1974) ved Glen Campbell
 Earthbound (1975) ved The 5th Dimension
 Live at the Royal Festival Hall (1977) by Glen Campbell
 Watermark (1977) ved Art Garfunkel
 Breakwater Cat (1980) ved Thelma Houston
 The Last Unicorn (1982) ved America
 The Animals' Christmas (1986) ved Art Garfunkel og Amy Grant
 Light Years (1988) ved Glen Campbell
 Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind (1989) ved Linda Ronstadt
 Film Noir (1997) ved Carly Simon
 Only One Life: The Songs of Jimmy Webb (2003) ved Michael Feinstein
 This Kind of Love (2008) ved Carly Simon
 Cottonwood Farm (2009) ved Jimmy Webb and The Webb Brothers
 Glen Campbell and Jimmy Webb: In Session (2012) ved Glen Campbell og Jimmy Webb

 Samlealbum 
 Tribute to Burt Bacharach and Jim Webb (1972)
 Archive (1994)
 And Someone Left the Cake Out in the Rain... (1998)
 Reunited with Jimmy Webb 1974–1988 (1999)
 Tunesmith: The Songs of Jimmy Webb (2003)
 The Moon's a Harsh Mistress: Jimmy Webb in the Seventies (2004)
 Archive & Live'' (2005)

Æresbevisninger og utmerkelser 
 1967 Grammy Award for Song of the Year ("Up, Up and Away")
 1969 Oklahoma Baptist University Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia honorary membership, Pi Tau Chapter
 1986 Grammy Award for Best Country Song ("Highwayman")
 1986 National Academy of Popular Music Songwriter's Hall of Fame
 1990 Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame
 1993 National Academy of Songwriters Lifetime Achievement Award
 1999 Oklahoma Hall of Fame
 1999 ASCAP Board of Directors, Vice Chairman 
 2000 Songwriters Hall of Fame Board of Directors
 2003 Songwriters Hall of Fame, Johnny Mercer Award
 2006 ASCAP Voice of Music Award
 2010 Songwriters Hall of Fame, Chairman Emeritus, 2010–2014
 2012 Ivor Novello Awards, Special International Award
 2013 Great American Songbook Hall of Fame, Songbook Award

Referanser

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Personer fra Beckham County i Oklahoma