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Jimmy Webb

Much like his biggest influence, Burt Bacharach, Jimmy Webb is a true anomaly in modern popular music, a prolific and idiosyncratic songwriter who achieved public stardom and professional acclaim as a composer, producer and arranger, rather than as a recording or performing artist himself. Webb's distinctive songwriting style has been responsible for many of the biggest hits in popular music history and the list of artists that have popularized his songs reads like a virtual who's who of popular music.

Between 1966 and 1969 alone, the years that firmly established his career, Webb was responsible for writing platinum selling hits such as "Wichita Lineman," "Galveston,"" By The Time I Get To Phoenix," "Up, Up And Away," and "McArthur Park," to name but a few. In a world where the non-performing songwriter is primarily relegated to commercial jingles or at best, the Broadway stage, Webb has kept the craft of songwriting in popular music alive for the past four decades.

Musical icons like Frank Sinatra and Elvis Pressley have recorded Webb's songs, as have many legendary songwriters such as Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson. Webb's exceptional songwriting abilities have endured throughout the decades and have transcended dozens of stylistic changes.

Jimmy Webb's legacy speaks for itself. He is the only person in history to have received Grammy Awards in all three categories: music, lyrics and orchestration. Although his own commercial success has never matched that of his work recorded by other performers, Webb has truly earned his legendary status as a genius of mainstream popular songwriting.

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