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Jimmy Webb Biography (1946-)

Full name, Jimmy Layne Webb; born August 15, 1946, in Elk City, OK; son of Robert Lee (a Baptist minister) Webb; married Birgitta Patricia Sullivan, July14, 1974; five sons. Addresses: Office: Jimmy Webb Music Company, 1173A Second Ave., Suite 178, New York, NY 10021.

Nationality

American

Gender

Male

Occupation

Singer, composer, pianist, organist, record producer

Birth Details

August 15, 1946

Elk City, Oklahoma, United States

Famous Works

• CREDITS
• Television Appearances
• Specials
• Amy Grant: Headin' Home for the Holidays, NBC, 1986
• Reno's Cabaret Reunion, Arts and Entertainment, 1989
• Himself, An All-Star Tribute to Brian Wilson, TNT, 2001
• Glen Campbell: Still on the Line, Arts and Entertainment, 2001
• RECORDINGS
• Albums
• Words and Music, Reprise, 1971
• And So: On, Reprise, 1971
• Letters, Reprise, 1972
• Land's End (includes "Crying in My Life"), Asylum, 1974
• El Mirage, Atlantic, 1977
• Angel Heart, Columbia, 1982
• The Animals' Christmas, Columbia, 1986
• Suspending Disbelief, Elektra, 1993
• Ten Easy Pieces, Guardian-EMI, 2002
• WRITINGS
• Film Music
• Title song, How Sweet It Is, National General Pictures, 1968
• (With Dave Grusin) Tell them Willie Boy Is Here, Universal, 1969
• Doc, United Artists, 1971
• The Naked Ape, Universal, 1973
• Songs and score, Voices, United Artists, 1979
• The Last Unicorn, ITC, 1982
• Hanoi Hilton (includes "What Makes You so Special"), Cannon, 1987
• Orchestral arrangement, "A Dream Worth Keeping," FernGully: The Last Rainforest (animated), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1991
• Song, The Santa Clause, Buena Vista, 1994
• Songs, Fargo, Gramercy, 1996
• (As Jim Webb) Songs, Love Serenade, New South Wales Film & Television Office, 1996
• Clean and Narrow, Mainline Releasing, 1999
• Television Music
• Series
• E/R, CBS, 1984
• Theme song, Wildfire (animated), CBS, 1986
• Episodic
• "Cinderella," Faerie Tale Theatre, Showtime, c. 1985
• "Lane Change," Amazing Stories, NBC, 1987
• "Loved to Death," Tales from the Crypt, HBO, 1991
• "The Trap," Tales from the Crypt, HBO, 1991
• Specials
• Ringo, 1978
• Amy Grant ... Headin' Home for the Holidays, NBC, 1986
• The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour 20th Reunion, CBS, 1988
• Reno's Cabaret Reunion, Arts and Entertainment, 1989
• Movies
• "Lightning in a Bottle," Winter People, 1989
• Plays
• His Own Dark City (musical), produced on Broadway, c. 1971
• (With Ray Bradbury) Dandelion Wine, c. 1990
• Songs
• Composer of songs for various artists, including "By the Time I Get to Phoenix," for Johnny Rivers, 1967; "Up, Up and Away" and "The Worst That CouldHappen," for the Fifth Dimension, 1967; A Tramp Shining (includes "MacArthur Park"), for Richard Harris, 1968; "All I Know," for Art Garfunkel, 1973; "The Animals Christmas" (cantata), for Art Garfunkel, 1983; "The Highwayman," for Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson,1985. Songs recorded by Glen Campbell include "Paper Cup" and "Wichita Lineman," 1968, and "Galveston," 1969. Webb's songs have also been recorded by Patti Austin, Joan Baez, John Denver, Amy Grant, Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Rivers, Linda Ronstadt, Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, and Toto. Also composer of "Wish You Were Here" and "Easy for You to Say."
• Other
• Tunesmith: Inside the Art of Songwriting, Hyperion, 1998
• Author of Future Letters to My Children.

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Books

• Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Schirmer, 2001
• Contemporary Musicians, Volume 12, Gale Research, 1994
• Encyclopedia of Pop, Rock & Soul, revised edition, St. Martin's Press, 1989, pp. 733-34

Periodicals

• Billboard, October 10, 1998, p. 13