Jimmy Webb

Upcoming shows

Sun Oct 25 Nashville, United States · Opry 100 Tickets
Sun Nov 1 New York, United States · An Evening With Jimmy Webb Tickets
Thu Nov 5 Old Saybrook, United States · An Evening With Jimmy Webb Tickets
Sat Nov 7 Boston, United States · An Evening With Jimmy Webb Tickets
Thu Nov 12 Phoenix, United States · An Evening With Jimmy Webb Tickets
Fri Nov 13 Phoenix, United States · An Evening With Jimmy Webb Tickets
Sat Nov 21 Roslyn, United States · An Evening With Jimmy Webb Tickets
Thu Feb 4 Palm Springs, United States · Jimmy Webb: 80th Birthday Celebration Tickets
Sat Feb 6 Las Vegas, United States · An Evening With Jimmy Webb Tickets

Tour dates elsewhere: Songkick

About

Jimmy Layne Webb (born August 15, 1946) is an American songwriter, composer, and singer. He achieved success at an early age, winning the Grammy Award for Song of the Year at the age of 21.

Webb has written multiple platinum-selling songs, including "Up, Up and Away", "By the Time I Get to Phoenix", "MacArthur Park", "Wichita Lineman", "Worst That Could Happen", "Galveston", and "All I Know". He had successful collaborations with Glen Campbell, Michael Feinstein, Linda Ronstadt, the 5th Dimension, the Highwaymen, the Supremes, Art Garfunkel, Richard Harris, and Carly Simon.

Webb was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1986 and the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1990. He received the National Academy of Songwriters Lifetime Achievement Award in 1993, the Songwriters Hall of Fame Johnny Mercer Award in 2003, the ASCAP "Voice of Music" Award in 2006 and the Ivor Novello Special International Award in 2012. According to BMI, his song "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" was the third most performed song in the 50 years between 1940 and 1990. Webb is the only artist ever to receive Grammy Awards for music, lyrics and orchestration.

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Layne Jimmy Webb, né le 15 août 1946 à Elk City en Oklahoma (États-Unis), est un auteur-compositeur-interprète américain. Il a écrit des chansons parmi les plus populaires de sa génération : By the Time I Get to Phoenix , Wichita Lineman, Up, Up and Away, Galveston ou MacArthur Park ont été encensées par la critique et beaucoup de ses chansons ont été enregistrées par les plus grands interprètes, dont Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, The Supremes, Linda Ronstadt, Joe Cocker, Art Garfunkel, etc.

Il est le seul artiste à avoir reçu un Grammy Awards pour la musique, les paroles et l'orchestration.

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