Jimmy Webb

American songwriter composer and singer He has written numerous platinumselling classics including Up Up and Away By the Time I Get to Phoenix Wichita Lineman Galveston The Worst That Could Happen All I Know and MacArthur Park His songs have been performed by many popular contemporary singers including Glen Campbell The 5th Dimension Thelma Houston The Supremes Richard Harris Johnny Maestro Frank Sinatra Elvis PresleyIsaac Hayes Art Garfunkel Amy Grant America Linda Ronstadt REM Michael Feinstein Donna Summer Barbra Streisand Sammy Davis Jrand Carly Simon According to BMI his song By the Time I Get to Phoenix was the third most performed song in the fifty years between 1940 and 1990 Webb is the only artist ever to have received Grammy Awards for music lyrics and orchestration