LINER NOTES FOR JIMMY WEBB'SWORDS AND MUSIC
By Richie Unterberger
By the time he released his first Reprise album in late 1970, Jimmy Webb was already one of the most successful songwriters of his era. He was barely into his twenties when the Fifth Dimension's recording of "Up, Up and Away" became the first of his songs to be made into a Top Ten hit. Huge smash covers of Webb tunes followed in 1968 and 1969 with Richard Harris's "MacArthur Park" and Glen Campbell's "Wichita Lineman" and "Galveston." His compositions were cut by scores of artists, from Johnny Rivers and Dusty Springfield to Frank Sinatra, the Four Tops, and Jackie DeShannon. At a time when the art of crafting songs for others was being overtaken by groups and solo performers who wrote material for themselves, Webb was viewed as something of a torchbearer for the Tin Pan Alley way of doing things, where the behind-the-scenes writer was considered at least as important as the singer. more
1 Sleepin' in the Daytime (Webb) 5:09
2 P.F. Sloan (Webb) 4:14
3 Love Song (Webb) 3:37
4 Careless Weed (Webb) 3:16
5 Psalm One-Five-O (Webb) 4:40
6 Music for an Unmade Movie: Songseller (Webb) 4:24
7 Music for an Unmade Movie: Dorothy Chandler Blues (Webb) 6:04
8 Music for an Unmade Movie: Jerusalem (Webb) 5:29
9 Three Songs: Let It Be Me/Never My Love/I Wanna Be Free (Boyce, Curtis, Delanoe, Hart) 2:18
10 Once Before I Die (Webb) 4:26
Tom Scott / Saxophone
Fred Tackett / Guitar
Jimmy Webb / Keyboards, Vocals, Producer
...
who coulda known that the guy who wrote such greats, could also do such stinkers.
(2 greats on this lp maybe more... stinkers elsewhere...)
4/6/11
Jimmy Webb - Words And Music (1970)
LINER NOTES FOR JIMMY WEBB'SWORDS AND MUSIC
By Richie Unterberger
By the time he released his first Reprise album in late 1970, Jimmy Webb was already one of the most successful songwriters of his era. He was barely into his twenties when the Fifth Dimension's recording of "Up, Up and Away" became the first of his songs to be made into a Top Ten hit. Huge smash covers of Webb tunes followed in 1968 and 1969 with Richard Harris's "MacArthur Park" and Glen Campbell's "Wichita Lineman" and "Galveston." His compositions were cut by scores of artists, from Johnny Rivers and Dusty Springfield to Frank Sinatra, the Four Tops, and Jackie DeShannon. At a time when the art of crafting songs for others was being overtaken by groups and solo performers who wrote material for themselves, Webb was viewed as something of a torchbearer for the Tin Pan Alley way of doing things, where the behind-the-scenes writer was considered at least as important as the singer. more
1 Sleepin' in the Daytime (Webb) 5:09
2 P.F. Sloan (Webb) 4:14
3 Love Song (Webb) 3:37
4 Careless Weed (Webb) 3:16
5 Psalm One-Five-O (Webb) 4:40
6 Music for an Unmade Movie: Songseller (Webb) 4:24
7 Music for an Unmade Movie: Dorothy Chandler Blues (Webb) 6:04
8 Music for an Unmade Movie: Jerusalem (Webb) 5:29
9 Three Songs: Let It Be Me/Never My Love/I Wanna Be Free (Boyce, Curtis, Delanoe, Hart) 2:18
10 Once Before I Die (Webb) 4:26
Tom Scott / Saxophone
Fred Tackett / Guitar
Jimmy Webb / Keyboards, Vocals, Producer
...
who coulda known that the guy who wrote such greats, could also do such stinkers.
(2 greats on this lp maybe more... stinkers elsewhere...)
