Multiple Grammy Award-winning songwriter Jimmy Webb has topped the charts from pop to country to disco numerous times with interpretations by some of the industry’s greatest. On July 13, Jimmy will ...

A dedicated fan of musical history, I knew it was time to pull back the curtains of American music and delve a little deeper. It was then I discovered this song originally written by the ...

Like a creature from a pop song horror movie, “MacArthur Park,” the epic seven-minute single written by Jimmy Webb, has new life. The hit—unleashed on the world to chart-topping success by the late ...

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 ...

A legendary hitmaker just announced a special 2026 night in Nashville, and the song list is basically a greatest-hits map of ...

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 ...

Yet all three manage to create a fully conceived narrative rather than a scene or episode. Phoenix documents one day in the lives of two people with one deliberate action and one slow realization. A ...

October 23, 1967, was a historic day for Glen Campbell, although he didn’t know it at the time. It was on this day that Campbell recorded “By The Time I Get To Phoenix”. Campbell recorded the song at ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Paul Natkin/Getty Images Eagles guitarist Joe Walsh and hit songwriter Jimmy Webb ...