
He is a guy that wrote the songs for many of the top artists in the 70’s. People like Glen Campbell that everyone said I look like. He wrote his hit Galveston. Not too bad, I wouldn’t want to be known for looking like Charles Manson. He also wrote music for other great artists as well. People like The Four Tops, The Supremes, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Lisa Minelli and many others recorded his songs.

At 18 the family moved to Southern California. A year later, his mother died. His Father then decided to return to the mid-west. Jimmy stayed in California and made the rounds into the music industry. With a paper bag full of songs, his first song was bought by Motown records with a song for the Supremes to sing called Christmas Tree. He’s not very proud of it because it did not achieve the fame White Christmas did.

A song about a place was Wichita Lineman also requested by Glen Campbell. Galveston was about a soldier from Vietnam, then MacArthur Park came first performed by Richard Harris then made into a disco favorite recorded by Donna Summers. Her version became his only number one hit record. The song is filled with metaphors about a romance gone bad.
These days Jimmy is sort of a song writing legend. He still writes songs and recently put out an album called Jimmy Webb Just Across The River. The recording studio was filled with stars like Billy Joel and other, singing oldies like All I Know. Nowadays you need a clean version of a song because all the songs are dirty. Recent junk like Celo Green’s Fuck You revised to Forget You.
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