Jim Webb Sings Jim Webb
Jim Webb Sings Jim Webb | ||||
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Studio album by Jimmy Webb | ||||
Released | August 1968 (1968-08) | |||
Recorded | March 23, 1968 Hollywood, California, USA | |||
Genre | Pop | |||
Length | 23:53 | |||
Label | Epic | |||
Producer | Hank Levine | |||
Jimmy Webb chronology | ||||
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Jim Webb Sings Jim Webb is the debut album by American singer-songwriter Jimmy Webb, released in 1968 on Epic Records.
Background
The album consists of a set of early demo recordings, redubbed and orchestrated by Epic Records without Webb's participation or consent.[1] None of Webb's hit songs from that period appear on the album, and the sound quality of the recording is inferior.[1] Webb later denounced the release in the strongest terms:
My most serious handicap when I first 'went artist' was a counterfeit 'Webb solo LP' called Jimmy Webb Sings Jimmy Webb, which was produced by a bunch of ruffians from some old demos of mine and tarted up to sound like "MacArthur Park". It was quite a piece of crap and was received with great anticipation and crushing disappointment at the radio level.[2]
Critical reception
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [1] |
Webb strongly disliked the album. In his review for Allmusic, Bruce Eder wrote that Epic was "looking for the same effect as those early Randy Newman albums on Warner Bros. with far less success, artistic or commercial".[1] Eder concluded that the album is of "purely historical interest".[1]
Track listing
All tracks are written by Jimmy Webb
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "You're So Young" | 2:58 |
2. | "Run Run Run" | 2:21 |
3. | "I Can Do It On My Own" | 2:48 |
4. | "I'll Be Back" | 2:23 |
5. | "I'm in Need" | 2:25 |
6. | "I Keep It Hid" | 2:27 |
7. | "Life is Hard" | 2:06 |
8. | "Our Time is Running Out" | 2:13 |
9. | "I Need You" | 2:01 |
10. | "Then" | 2:11 |
Personnel
- Music
- Jimmy Webb – vocals, piano
- Elton "Skip" Mosher – backing vocals
- Jim Stotler – backing vocals
- Greg Waitman – backing vocals
- Production
- Hank Levine – producer, orchestra arrangements and conductor
- Jimmy Webb – song arrangements (5,7,9)
- Bob Breault – recording engineer
- Sy Mitchell – recording engineer
- Sid Maurer – cover painting[3]
References
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- Jim Webb Sings Jim Webb (1968)
- Words and Music (1970)
- And So: On (1971)
- Letters (1972)
- Land's End (1974)
- El Mirage (1977)
- Angel Heart (1982)
- Suspending Disbelief (1993)
- Ten Easy Pieces (1996)
- Twilight of the Renegades (2005)
- Live and at Large (2007)
- Just Across the River (2010)
- Still Within the Sound of My Voice (2013)
- SlipCover (2019)
- Up, Up, and Away (1966)
- The Magic Garden (1967)
- Rewind (1967)
- A Tramp Shining (1968)
- The Yard Went On Forever (1968)
- Sunshower (1969)
- The Supremes Produced and Arranged by Jimmy Webb (1972)
- Reunion: The Songs of Jimmy Webb (1974)
- Earthbound (1975)
- Live at the Royal Festival Hall (1977)
- Watermark (1977)
- Breakwater Cat (1980)
- The Last Unicorn (1983)
- The Animals' Christmas (1986)
- Light Years (1988)
- Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind (1989)
- Only One Life: The Songs of Jimmy Webb (2003)
- This Kind of Love (2008)
- Cottonwood Farm (2009)
- Glen Campbell and Jimmy Webb: In Session (2012)
- Tribute to Burt Bacharach and Jim Webb (1972)
- And Someone Left the Cake Out in the Rain... (1998)
- Archive (1994)
- Reunited with Jimmy Webb 1974–1988 (1999)
- Tunesmith: The Songs of Jimmy Webb (2003)
- The Moon's a Harsh Mistress: Jimmy Webb in the Seventies (2004)
- Archive & Live (2005)
- "All I Know"
- "By the Time I Get to Phoenix"
- "Didn't We"
- "Galveston"
- "The Girls' Song"
- "Highwayman"
- "Honey Come Back"
- "MacArthur Park"
- "Still Within the Sound of My Voice"
- "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress"
- "Up, Up and Away"
- "Where's the Playground Susie"
- "Wichita Lineman"
- "Worst That Could Happen"