Jimmy Webb (født 1946) er en amerikansk musiker, sanger og komponist som har vunnet flerehttp://www.dagsavisen.no/helg-nye-inntrykk/lydhort/jimmy-webb-en-legende-i-levende-live-1.765344 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")["songwriters-bio" ] 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 ["ascap-board" http://www.ascap.com/about/board-intro.aspx] 2000 Songwriters Hall of Fame Board of Directors 2003 Songwriters Hall of Fame, Johnny Mercer Award ["songwriters-mercer" ] 2006 ASCAP Voice of Music Award["ascap-voice" http://www.ascap.com/eventsawards/awards/voiceofmusic/index.aspx] 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["songbook" http://www.thecenterfortheperformingarts.org/Great-American-Songbook-Inititative/Great-American-Songbook-Hall-of-Fame ]
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