American songwriter, composer, and singer. He has written numerous platinum-selling classics, including “Up, Up and Away”, “By the Time I Get to Phoenix”, “Wichita Lineman”, “Galveston”, “The Worst That Could Happen”, “All I Know”, and “MacArthur Park”. His songs have been performed by many popular contemporary singers, including Glen Campbell, The 5th Dimension, Thelma Houston, The Supremes, Richard Harris, Johnny Maestro, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley,Isaac Hayes, Art Garfunkel, Amy Grant, America, Linda Ronstadt, R.E.M., Michael Feinstein, Donna Summer, Barbra Streisand, Sammy Davis Jr.,and Carly Simon. According to BMI, his song “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” was the third most performed song in the fifty years between 1940 and 1990. Webb is the only artist ever to have received Grammy Awards for music, lyrics, and orchestration.
Jimmy Webb Biography / Wiki
Name | Jimmy Webb |
Also Know | |
Gender | Male |
Known For | Sound |
Place of Birth | Elk City, Oklahoma, USA |
Date of Birth | 1946-08-15 |
Age(as in 2022) | 76 |
Deathday |
Jimmy Webb Acting Movies
Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me | 2014-04-24 | A documentary film detailing Glen Campbell’s final tour and his struggle with Alzheimer’s disease…. | |
Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin’ About Him?) | Himself | 2010-10-26 | The documentary explores the enigmatic life and music of Harry Nilsson in an attempt to answer the question, “Who is Harry Nilsson?” The film includes… |
Joe Cocker – Mad Dog with Soul | Himself | 2017-03-17 | The turbulent life of soul and blues singer, the late Joe Cocker. A former gas fitter from Sheffield, catapulted to world stardom in 1969 at Woodstock… |
Produced By George Martin | 2012-09-11 | A profile of Sir George Martin, Britain’s most celebrated record producer, from his early days at EMI/Parlophone to his work with The Beatles…. | |
The Ghost of Richard Harris | Self | 2022-08-31 | The Ghost of Richard Harris is about the once famous Hollywood star and notorious hellraiser. It is the story of a legendary Irishman, perhaps the gre… |
The Wrecking Crew | Himself | 2008-03-11 | A celebration of the musical work of a group of session musicians known as “The Wrecking Crew.” a band that provided back-up instrumentals to such leg… |
Sound
Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
The Last Unicorn | Original Music Composer | 1982-11-19 | From a riddle-speaking butterfly, a unicorn learns that she is supposedly the last of her kind, all the others having been herded away by the Red Bull… |
The Hanoi Hilton | Original Music Composer | 1987-03-27 | Lionel Chetwynd’s film documents the horrific struggles that faced American POWs held in the North Vietnamese prison Hoa Lo — more infamously known a… |
Heat | Additional Soundtrack | 1995-12-15 | Obsessive master thief Neil McCauley leads a top-notch crew on various daring heists throughout Los Angeles while determined detective Vincent Hanna p… |
Born on the Fourth of July | Additional Soundtrack | 1989-12-20 | The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the… |
The Clean and Narrow | Music | 1999-01-02 | An ex-convict tries to make an honest living and take care of his girlfriend and her mentally slow brother…. |
Doc | Music | 1971-08-01 | A revisionist western, “Doc” is Frank Perry’s attempt to accurately portray the lives and persons of Doc Holliday, Wyatt Earp, and the now-legendary e… |
Voices | Original Music Composer | 1979-03-14 | An up-and-coming nightclub singer falls in love with a shy young deaf teacher who aspires to be a dancer…. |
Music | A truly amazing, fantastical, science fiction, funny and odd, and sometimes scary, sad and endearing anthology series presented by Steven Spielberg wi… | ||
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