Jimmy Webb, born in 1946, is somehow both an under-acknowledged figure and one of the most successful songwriters of all time. He wrote these great and famous songs: Glen Campbell's 'Wichita Lineman', 'By The Time I Get To Phoenix' and 'Galveston'; The Four Tops' 'Do What You Gotta Do'; and Richard Harris' - or Donna Summer's - 'MacArthur Park'. He wrote these great, and slightly less famous, songs for Art Garfunkel: 'All I Know', 'Scissors Cut' and 'Crying In My Sleep'. He also wrote 'Didn't We?' and 'Up, Up And Away'. In 1967 he won eight Grammys for two songs. 'By The Time I Get To Phoenix' was the third most performed song in the world in the half-century between 1940 and 1990. His songs have been covered by Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Barbra Streisand, Nick Cave and Isaac Hayes.
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