Posted on Sunday, March 02, 2014 - 09:19 am:
ASCAP on the Occasion of its 100th Birthday with Jimmy Webb and Paul Williams
http://blogs.loc.gov/music/2014/02/asca ... -williams/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
-Cowpoke
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Re: Glen Campbell and Jimmy Webb
Posted on Monday, February 17, 2014 - 04:41 am:
This article was published last month but I don't think we have posted about it here yet.
http://www.americansongwriter.com/2014/ ... till-line/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
-Cowpoke
This article was published last month but I don't think we have posted about it here yet.
http://www.americansongwriter.com/2014/ ... till-line/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
-Cowpoke
Re: Glen Campbell and Jimmy Webb
Posted on Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - 10:14 am:
Recent interview with Jimmy.
http://www.buckscountycouriertimes.com/ ... c527d.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
-Cowpoke
Recent interview with Jimmy.
http://www.buckscountycouriertimes.com/ ... c527d.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
-Cowpoke
Re: Glen Campbell and Jimmy Webb
Posted on Sunday, November 24, 2013 - 08:55 am:
Jimmy talks very specifically about his songs "Galveston", "MacArthur Park", "Wichita Lineman", his early career, songwriting, the origins of his "heartbreak" songs, life lessons, the infamous phone call between Jimmy and Glen Campbell regarding writing another song about a town, meeting Elvis, hanging with "Frank", singing "Phoenix" with Glen a few years ago, and much more! Jimmy is both a great songwriter and storyteller!
http://www.npr.org/blogs/world-cafe/201 ... world-cafe" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
-Cowpoke
Jimmy talks very specifically about his songs "Galveston", "MacArthur Park", "Wichita Lineman", his early career, songwriting, the origins of his "heartbreak" songs, life lessons, the infamous phone call between Jimmy and Glen Campbell regarding writing another song about a town, meeting Elvis, hanging with "Frank", singing "Phoenix" with Glen a few years ago, and much more! Jimmy is both a great songwriter and storyteller!
http://www.npr.org/blogs/world-cafe/201 ... world-cafe" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
-Cowpoke
Re: Glen Campbell and Jimmy Webb
Posted on Saturday, November 09, 2013 - 06:46 pm:
Great piece Cowpoke. Although I think its a shame Jimmy didn't feel appreciated for his work. Its almost like great painters who are not recognised till they have passed on. Although I get the point he wanted to be seen as a more liberal individual at that time. I hope he now has as great sense of pride for his work which he must realise is very much part of the great American song book.
BTW, I just received my copy of the new JW album. its a great CD and as seems to be the way with Jimmy's albums, there is a lot of liner notes and back story about the people who have worked with him on this CD and in the past.
-Mike Joyce
Great piece Cowpoke. Although I think its a shame Jimmy didn't feel appreciated for his work. Its almost like great painters who are not recognised till they have passed on. Although I get the point he wanted to be seen as a more liberal individual at that time. I hope he now has as great sense of pride for his work which he must realise is very much part of the great American song book.
BTW, I just received my copy of the new JW album. its a great CD and as seems to be the way with Jimmy's albums, there is a lot of liner notes and back story about the people who have worked with him on this CD and in the past.
-Mike Joyce
Re: Glen Campbell and Jimmy Webb
Posted on Saturday, November 09, 2013 - 06:23 am:
In this recent interview, Jimmy again, like in the 1971 interview that was posted on here a week or so ago, says he did not want to be categorized as a middle of the road songwriter.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/musi ... immy-Webb-" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; interview-I-wont-play-Wichita-Lineman-again.html
-Cowpoke
In this recent interview, Jimmy again, like in the 1971 interview that was posted on here a week or so ago, says he did not want to be categorized as a middle of the road songwriter.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/musi ... immy-Webb-" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; interview-I-wont-play-Wichita-Lineman-again.html
-Cowpoke
Re: Glen Campbell and Jimmy Webb
Posted on Thursday, October 31, 2013 - 12:35 pm:
As we all know Jimmy was politically opposite to Glen at that time and probably still is. Remember he said he wouldn't appear on the Good time show as it didn't sit well with him. A show which had John Wayne as a guest was not what he wanted to be associated with. Jimmy has also said he didn't feel as if had been accepted by the main steam artists of his day and felt like an outsider most of the time. So I guess Glen's success with his songs put him into an area he felt was very conservative, which he was probably trying to distance himself from by doing his music himself to give it a credibility to a different kind of audience, which is more liberal minded. Perhaps like James Taylor, Simon and Garfunkel Bob Dylan and the Beatles for example.
-Mike Joyce
As we all know Jimmy was politically opposite to Glen at that time and probably still is. Remember he said he wouldn't appear on the Good time show as it didn't sit well with him. A show which had John Wayne as a guest was not what he wanted to be associated with. Jimmy has also said he didn't feel as if had been accepted by the main steam artists of his day and felt like an outsider most of the time. So I guess Glen's success with his songs put him into an area he felt was very conservative, which he was probably trying to distance himself from by doing his music himself to give it a credibility to a different kind of audience, which is more liberal minded. Perhaps like James Taylor, Simon and Garfunkel Bob Dylan and the Beatles for example.
-Mike Joyce
Re: Glen Campbell and Jimmy Webb
Posted on Wednesday, October 30, 2013 - 12:17 pm:
Of course this is just a snapshot of how Jimmy felt then. He apparantly was frustrated by the fact his songs were mainly being listened to by, as he says in the interview, "45+ year old housewifes" who are "living in the suburbs", not the younger city crowd. I think he feels different about that now...
-Cowpoke
Of course this is just a snapshot of how Jimmy felt then. He apparantly was frustrated by the fact his songs were mainly being listened to by, as he says in the interview, "45+ year old housewifes" who are "living in the suburbs", not the younger city crowd. I think he feels different about that now...
-Cowpoke
Re: Glen Campbell and Jimmy Webb
Posted on Wednesday, October 30, 2013 - 11:53 am:
I find when Jimmy Webb sings, all the songs sound mostly the same,which is dreary tedious and often out of tune. No one can deny Webb is a brillant writer,but the success of his songs is also down to the artists who interpret them.
Webb never wrote MaCarther Park the way Donna Summer sung it,but she probably had the most notable hit with it and put it back on the map long after it was history.
Webb is right in one sense,when Glen sings,songs do all sound the same,in that they all sound a whole lot better.
-stephen.taylor
I find when Jimmy Webb sings, all the songs sound mostly the same,which is dreary tedious and often out of tune. No one can deny Webb is a brillant writer,but the success of his songs is also down to the artists who interpret them.
Webb never wrote MaCarther Park the way Donna Summer sung it,but she probably had the most notable hit with it and put it back on the map long after it was history.
Webb is right in one sense,when Glen sings,songs do all sound the same,in that they all sound a whole lot better.
-stephen.taylor
Re: Glen Campbell and Jimmy Webb
Posted on Wednesday, October 30, 2013 - 04:54 am:
Very interesting interview with Jimmy Webb, at the time he began to perform his songs himself (1971).
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1 ... 39,2376897" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
"I wrote Wichita Lineman, By the Time I Get to Phoenix and Galveston at very different times of my life. When I wrote them they all sounded different, but after Glen recorded them they all sounded the same."
-Cowpoke
Very interesting interview with Jimmy Webb, at the time he began to perform his songs himself (1971).
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1 ... 39,2376897" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
"I wrote Wichita Lineman, By the Time I Get to Phoenix and Galveston at very different times of my life. When I wrote them they all sounded different, but after Glen recorded them they all sounded the same."
-Cowpoke