When songwriter Jimmy Webb left an unfinished version of the song "Wichita Lineman" for Glen Campbell to listen to, he never got a response and assumed it was a no-go. But when he eventually spoke to ...

Jimmy Webb was driving through the high plains of north-west Oklahoma when the inspiration for his biggest ever song came to him. It was a scorching summer afternoon and as the Grammy award-winning ...

Many songwriters will do whatever they can to glorify themselves and their work. By contrast, the legendary tunesmith Jimmy Webb decided to use a song from his first solo album to throw the spotlight ...

Like a creature from a pop song horror movie, “MacArthur Park,” the epic seven-minute single written by Jimmy Webb and unleashed on the world to chart-topping success by the late actor Richard Harris, ...

Jimmy Webb might have been a legend even if he had only written By the Time I get to Phoenix -- now the third most-performed song of the past fifty years. Then he went on to pen Wichita Lineman, ...