Jimmy Webb - The Second Disc

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Donna Summer, Eartha Kitt, Grace Jones, Jimmy Webb, John Cale, Laura Branigan, Laura Nyro, Nina Simone, Pet Shop Boys, Sylvester, The Village People, Todd Rundgren, Various Artists

Still on the Line: Ace Collects Glen Campbell and Jimmy Webb Collaborations, Glen’s “Ghost on the Canvas” Revisited with All-Star Duets

February 28, 2024 by Joe Marchese | 7 Comments

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From the time singer-guitarist Glen Campbell recorded “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” in 1967, he became forever linked with the words and music of Jimmy Layne Webb. Formerly a staff songwriter for Motown’s Jobete Music arm, Webb had placed songs with big names (The Supremes) and lesser-known talents (Danny Day, The Contessas) when he attracted the ear of Soul City Records’ Johnny Rivers. The “Poor Side of Town” and “Memphis, Tennessee” singer was the first to release a version of “Phoenix,” on his 1967 album Changes. Within a year, he…

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Brian Wilson, Carole King, Daryl Hall, Dave Stewart, Dolly Parton, Elton John, Eric Church, Eric Clapton, Glen Campbell, Jimmy Webb, Sting

The Weekend Stream: October 16, 2021

October 16, 2021 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

Prince, Do Me, Baby (Demo) (NPG/Warner) (iTunes / Amazon / Spotify) A surprise release on Thursday for the 40th anniversary of Prince’s Controversy (1981), the Prince Estate has issued a demo recording of “Do Me, Baby,” recorded during the studio sessions for Prince’s self-titled sophomore album in 1979. (As such, it sounds less like a demo and more like a studio version in league with that album.) It’s a fascinating recording that again highlights The Purple One’s genius – and it’s also available physically through The Artist’s official store, on a one-sided,…

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Aztec Camera, Cyndi Lauper, Debbie Gibson, Doug E. Fresh, Indigo Girls, Jimmy Webb, Julian Velard, Nick Kamen, Ozzy Osbourne, Prince, Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, Stokely Carmichael

An American Trilogy: Morello Reissues Glen Campbell’s Three Atlantic Albums on New 2-CD Set

September 6, 2019 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Glen Campbell joined Capitol Records in 1962, remaining with the label through 1981. At Capitol, Campbell released almost 40 albums, picking up six Grammy Awards and scoring such indelible hits as “By the Time I Get to Phoenix,” “Wichita Lineman,” “Galveston,” “Rhinestone Cowboy,” “Country Boy (You Got Your Feet in L.A.),” and “Southern Nights.” Campbell followed up his remarkable two decades at Capitol by signing to Atlantic Records’ new country-oriented Atlantic America imprint. Cherry Red’s Morello Records imprint today brings Campbell’s three underrated Atlantic LPs back to CD in a new 2-CD…

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Glen Campbell, Jerry Fuller, Jimmy Webb

Review: Glen Campbell, “The Legacy [1961-2017]”

June 26, 2019 by Joe Marchese | 5 Comments

Glen Campbell’s career-spanning box set is modestly titled The Legacy, fitting for the unlikely superstar from Delight, Arkansas. While The Legend might have been equally appropriate, Campbell’s legacy is, truly, unlike any other. Throughout an extraordinary seven-decade career encompassing 21 Top 40 Pop hits, 27 Top 10 Country singles, six Top 20 Pop albums, and nine No. 1 Country albums in the United States alone, the artist regularly transcended genre with his honeyed vocals and virtuosic musicianship. Hit songs took Campbell to locales such as Phoenix, Wichita, Galveston, Houston and Manhattan, Kansas,…

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Release Round-Up: Week of May 17

May 17, 2019 by Sam Stone | 2 Comments

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Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Here’s what’s in stores today! Paul McCartney, Egypt Station: Explorer’s Edition (MPL/Capitol) 2-CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3-LP black vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3-LP color vinyl: MusicVaultz / JPC.de Paul McCartney’s Egypt Station: Explorer’s Edition features the same audio content as the Traveller’s Edition box set minus the swag (postcards, baggage tickets, luggage tags, lithographs, cards, a map, and a jigsaw puzzle!) – meaning that this 2-CD or 3-LP version has the original 2018 album plus all…

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A Certain Ratio, Cher, David Bowie, Dionne Warwick, Elton John, Jimmy Webb, King Crimson, Manfred Mann, Nick Lowe, Paul McCartney, Richard Wright, Rodney Franklin, Ronnie Lane, The Seekers, Zee

Release Round-Up: Week of December 8

December 8, 2017 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

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Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Debby Boone, You Light Up My Life: 40th Anniversary Expanded Edition (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Finally, the platinum LP containing the biggest hit of the 1970s arrives on CD! Real Gone’s new edition expands Debby Boone’s original You Light Up My Life album by a whopping thirteen tracks, tracing Debby’s career back to her earliest recordings with her sisters as The Boone Girls. You’ll hear their effervescent covers, originally released on labels including Motown and Warner Bros./Curb, of songs by John Denver, The Marvelettes, The Supremes, Mary…

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Barbra Streisand, Bert Berns, Bing Crosby, Chip Taylor, Debby Boone, Diana Ross and The Supremes, Henry Mancini, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Webb, John Fogerty, Johnny Mathis, Julie Andrews, The Searchers, William Tabbert

A Dream In Your Heart: Real Gone Announces a Dionne Warwick Rarities Collection and Expanded Jimmy Webb “Angel Heart”

October 25, 2017 by Randy Fairman | 9 Comments

We’ve already told you about Real Gone’s reissue of Debby Boone’s You Light Up My Life, coming on December 8. Now, Real Gone has announced two other titles coming soon. Both feature legendary artists who got their start in the 1960s. First up is Odds & Ends: Scepter Records Rarities, a collection of rarities from Dionne Warwick taken from her time at Scepter Records. Due on January 12, 2018, it features new liner notes by our very own Joe Marchese based on his brand-new interview with the artist. From 1962 to 1971,…

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Burt Bacharach, Dionne Warwick, Hal David, Jimmy Webb

Adios, Adios: Glen Campbell To Release Final Studio Album in June

April 14, 2017 by Randy Fairman | 8 Comments

In 2011, Glen Campbell released Ghost On the Canvas and it was revealed that the legendary artist was suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. Campbell then embarked upon the yearlong Good Times – Final Farewell Tour which took him to cities in Europe and North America. After the conclusion of that tour, he went into the studio to finish the album See You There, which was released in August of 2013. It was billed at the time as his sixty-third and final studio album. However, it has now been announced that Campbell had recorded…

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Glen Campbell, Jimmy Webb, Roger Miller, Willie Nelson

And I Want You For All Time: Three Glen Campbell Classics To Be Reissued On Vinyl

March 20, 2017 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

Three classic Capitol Records albums by living legend Glen Campbell are set to return to vinyl from the label on March 24. Gentle on My Mind, Wichita Lineman and Galveston will all be reissued by Capitol Nashville on standard black vinyl, with limited-edition colored vinyl editions to follow at a later date. Gentle on My Mind, the singer-guitarist’s sixth album, was produced by Al De Lory, with De Lory arranging and conducting alongside session veteran (and future Master of Space and Time) Leon Russell. Many familiar titles can be heard on the…

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Jimmy Webb’s “Voices” Featuring Burton Cummings Premieres On CD

August 10, 2016 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

Following its recent reissue of Sonny and Cher’s Good Times! soundtrack, Varese Vintage has turned its attention to another neglected release uniting the worlds of cinema and pop. The 1979 romantic drama Voices featured a score by Jimmy Webb and performances by The Guess Who’s Burton Cummings and the teenage duo of Andy and David Williams (nephews to the elder Andy Williams) as well as, on its non-Webb tracks, Willie Nelson and Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers. This Friday, the long out-of-print Planet Records soundtrack album, overseen by Planet head Richard Perry,…

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Remember When The Music: Bottom Line Presents Unheard Harry Chapin, Reissues Janis Ian and More

June 11, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 3 Comments

The new Bottom Line Archive Series, which launched earlier this year with volumes from The Brecker Brothers, Willie Nile, and Kenny Rankin, continues on June 30 with a new wave of titles all recorded at the late, great New York venue once located on West 4th Street in Greenwich Village. Concerts from Harry Chapin and Janis Ian, plus two various-artists compilations, will be released on Bottom Line Records on that date. Legendary singer-songwriter Harry Chapin’s January 1981 set at The Bottom Line was released as a 2-CD set in 1998 as part…

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Harry Chapin, Janis Ian, Jimmy Webb, Pete Seeger, Various Artists

Special Review: Glen Campbell and Jimmy Webb Conjure Old Ghosts On Two New Releases

September 11, 2013 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Since 1967, it’s been difficult to think of Glen Campbell without thinking of Jimmy Webb – and vice versa. When the ace session guitarist interpreted the young songwriter’s “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” on the album of the same name, the result wasn’t just a Grammy-winning hit single, but the beginning of a partnership that’s survived through six decades. Campbell scored successes with a string of Webb’s songs in the late 1960s (“Wichita Lineman,” “Galveston,” “Where’s the Playground, Susie”), celebrated his friend’s ouevre with the 1974 LP Reunion, and tapped…

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Review: Glen Campbell and Jimmy Webb, “In Session”

October 10, 2012 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

What drew together the son of a sharecropper from Delight, Arkansas and the minister’s boy from Eld City, Oklahoma? They were separated by a decade; one conservative, one liberal; one singer, one songwriter; one an establishment country star, the other a long-haired pop wunderkind – the paths of Glen Campbell and Jimmy Webb first crossed when Campbell chose to record Webb’s “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” in 1967. The Oklahoma kid had written the song as a young staff songwriter at Motown’s Jobete arm, where it was recorded by a…

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And I Want You For All Time: Glen Campbell, Jimmy Webb Reunite For Vintage “Session”

August 15, 2012 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

What makes for the perfect marriage of songwriter and singer? The magic is nearly indefinable when composer and lyricist meet a voice to serve as a muse; when two or three people, each with an inimitable gift, find themselves on a perfect, sympathetic and transcendent wavelength to bring each other’s music to life. There have been many such marriages across all genes of music: Dionne Warwick with Burt Bacharach and Hal David, Frank Sinatra with Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen; Petula Clark with Tony Hatch; Meat Loaf with Jim Steinman. Yet…

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