CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Jimmy Webb Finally in Front of His Own Hit Parade

IS it possible for a musician to emerge unscathed from the kind of early success enjoyed by the singer-songwriter Jimmy Webb? In the late 1960s, when he was barely 21, Mr. Webb was showered with Grammys for writing the Glen Campbell hits "By the Time I Get to Phoenix," "Wichita Lineman," "Galveston" and the Fifth Dimension's "Up, Up and Away." Then there was "MacArthur Park," the grandiose quasi-symphonic "cake out in the rain" popularized by the Irish actor Richard Harris and in 1978 remade ...

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