Jimmy Webb
American songwriter, composer, and singer
Jimmy Layne Webb (born August 15, 1946) is an American songwriter, composer, and singer. He achieved success at an early age, winning the Grammy Award for Song of the Year at the age of 21.
Webb was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1986 and the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1990. He received the National Academy of Songwriters Lifetime Achievement Award in 1993, the Songwriters Hall of Fame Johnny Mercer Award in 2003, the ASCAP "Voice of Music" Award in 2006 and the Ivor Novello Special International Award in 2012. According to BMI, his song "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" was the third most performed song in the 50 years between 1940 and 1990. Webb is the only artist ever to receive Grammy Awards for music, lyrics and orchestration.
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Works
- 5:30 Plane
- A Tramp Shining
- A Tune for Jack
- Across The River
- Adios
- All I Know
- All My Love’s Laughter
- Angel Heart
- Another Lullaby
- Beyond Myself
- By the Time I Get to Phoenix
- Carpet Man
- Cheap Lovin’
- Christiaan No
- Clowns Exit Laughing
- Crying in My Sleep
- Didn’t We?
- Disco If You Want To
- Do What You Gotta Do
- Dreams/Pax/Nepenthe
- Driftwood
- Drunk As A Punk
- Early Morning Song
- Easy for You to Say
- Eine plötzliche Erinnerung
- Epilogue
- Everybody Gets to Go to the Moon
- Family Theme
- Forest Awakens
- Forest Awakens: Bull–Unicorn–Woman
- Forest Awakens: Haggard’s Unicorns
- Forest Awakens: Red Bull Attacks
- Forest Awakens: Red Soup
- Forest Awakens: The Cat
- Forest Awakens: The Tree
- Forest Awakens: The Unicorn Forest / The Hunters
- Forest Awakens: Unicorn and Lear
- Forest Awakens: Unicorns in the Sea
- Fredløs
- Galveston
- Gloryell
- God’s Gift
- Have You Tried Love?
- High Rent Ghetto
- Highwomen
- Himmler’s Ring
- His World
- Honey Come Back
- Hot Ride
- How Sweet It Is
- I Keep It Hid
- I Need You
- I Will Always Wait For You (Instrumental)
- I Will Always Wait for You
- If Ships Were Made to Sail
- If These Walls Could Speak
- If This Was the Last Song
- If You See Me Getting Smaller I'm Leaving
- In Cars
- In the Sea
- It’s a Sin When You Love Somebody
- Jimmy Webb Medley: Up-Up and Away / Paper Cup / This Is Your Life / The Girls’ Song / The Worst That Could Happen / Mac Arthur Park
- Jurassic Park
- Just Like Always
- Just Like Marilyn
- Just This One Time
- Le Luxembourg
- Let’s Begin
- Little Tin Soldier
- Lovers Such as I
- Mac Arthur Park (Alle Träume, die wir hatten)
- MacArthur Park
- Man’s Road
- Marionette
- Midnight Mail
- Mixed-Up Girl
- Montage From How Sweet It Is
- Mr. Shuck ’n’ Jive
- My Christmas Tree
- Mä elän vieläkin
- Name of My Sorrow
- Nasty Love
- Never Gonna Be the Same
- Never Gonna Lose My Dream of Love Again
- Now That I’m a Woman
- Ocean in His Eyes
- Old Wing Mouth
- On a Stage
- Once and for All
- Once in the Morning
- One of the Nicer Things
- Orange Air
- Our Movie
- Où est la fête Suzie ?
- P. F. Sloan
- Paper Chase
- Paper Cup
- Pattern People
- Piano
- Please Don’t Turn the Lights Out
- Pocket Full of Keys
- Postcard From Paris
- Prologue
- Psalm One-Five-O
- Red Clay County Line
- Requiem: 820 Latham
- Rosecrans Blvd.
- Rosemarie And Drew
- Rosemarie's Dance / I Will Always Wait For You (Reprise)
- Rosemarie's Theme
- Saturday Suit
- Scissors Cut
- See You Then
- Seul est l'indompté
- Shattered
- Shine It on Me
- Skywriter
- Sleepin’ in the Daytime
- Someone Else (1958)
- Someone Is Standing Outside
- Song Seller
- Still Within the Sound of My Voice
- Summer’s Daughter
- Sunshower
- Séverine
- That’s All I’ve Got to Say
- The Children's Song
- The Children's Song (Instrumental)
- The Eleventh Song (What a Groovy Day!)
- The Girl’s Song
- The Hideaway
- The Highwayman
- The Hive
- The Interim
- The Last Samba
- The Last Unicorn
- The Magic Garden
- The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
- To Make It Easier on You
- Up, Up and Away
- Vondelpark
- Whatever Happened to Christmas
- When Can Brown Begin
- Which Way to Nowhere
- Wichita Lineman
- Woas ned so?
- Work for a Dollar
- You Can’t Treat the Wrong Man Right
- You Might as Well Smile