SOME songs paint vivid pictures. Few songwriters have combined the seemingly mundane – the worker on a telephone pole or the man leaving quietly in the early morning – with romance and poignancy as exquisitely as Jimmy Webb.
For more than 50 years, that name has been engraved on the roll call of great American songwriters. The youngest person ever inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, Jimmy Webb’s contribution includes classics like By The Time I Get To Phoenix, Wichita Lineman, Galveston, and Macarthur Park.
