Jimmy Webb

Jimmy Webb

出生 : 1946-08-15, Elk City, Oklahoma, USA

略歴

American songwriter, composer, and singer. He has written numerous platinum-selling 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 Presley,Isaac Hayes, Art Garfunkel, Amy Grant, America, Linda Ronstadt, R.E.M., Michael Feinstein, Donna Summer, Barbra Streisand, Sammy Davis Jr.,and 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.

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The Ghost of Richard Harris
Self
The Ghost of Richard Harris is about the once famous Hollywood star and notorious hellraiser. It is the story of a legendary Irishman, perhaps the greatest actor Ireland has produced and of a father whose three sons, led by Jared Harris, still think about him every day, since his unexpected death twenty years ago.
Joe Cocker - Mad Dog with Soul
Himself
The turbulent life of soul and blues singer, the late Joe Cocker. A former gas fitter from Sheffield, catapulted to world stardom in 1969 at Woodstock with his legendary performance of the Beatles song, "A Little Help from My Friends". But in the early 1970s, Joe Cocker's inner demons nearly killed him. Overcoming his struggles with alcohol and drugs, he rebuilt his reputation as "one of the great primal rock and roll vocalists of all time" (Billy Joel's description). The film mixes Joe Cocker's own words, with rare archive. His wife (Pam Cocker) & family, friends and the legendary songwriters and musicians he collaborated with, tell Joe Cocker's story. The film has raw, historic, electric performance footage throughout. Extensive interviews of key people through his life include: Pam Cocker, Ben Fong-Torres (Rolling Stone magazine editor), Randy Newman, Jimmy Webb, Billy Joel, Rita Coolidge, Deric Dyer, Glyn Johns, and numerous others.
アルツハイマーと僕〜グレン・キャンベル 音楽の奇跡〜
Self
アメリカの国民的スター、グレン・キャンベルが、病と闘いながらステージに立つ姿を追った感動のドキュメンタリー。2011年に家族とともに〈さよならツアー〉を敢行し、アルツハイマーに立ち向かうグレンと家族に密着し、グレンの人物像に迫っていく。
Produced By George Martin
A profile of Sir George Martin, Britain's most celebrated record producer, from his early days at EMI/Parlophone to his work with The Beatles.
Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin' About Him?)
Himself
The life and work of the enigmatic singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson.
The Wrecking Crew
Himself
A celebration of the musical work of a group of session musicians known as "The Wrecking Crew." a band that provided back-up instrumentals to such legendary recording artists as Frank Sinatra, The Beach Boys, and Bing Crosby.
The Clean and Narrow
Music
An ex-convict tries to make an honest living and take care of his girlfriend and her mentally slow brother.
ヒート
Additional Soundtrack
仕事に疲れて一般的な家庭生活が送れない刑事ヴィンセント。冷徹無比の犯罪組織のボス、ニール。追う者と追われる者、虚々実々の駆け引きとせめぎ合い。やがて二人はそれぞれの抱える孤独のうちに、奇妙な共感を覚える。だが彼らには避けては通れない運命の直接対決が待ち受けていた。
7月4日に生まれて
Additional Soundtrack
7月4日の独立記念日に生まれ、第二次世界大戦の勇士である父を誇りに思うロン・コーヴィックは、高校卒業後に海兵隊に入隊し13週間の訓練の後にベトナム戦争に従軍する。そこでの戦いは熾烈でありベトコンの攻撃にパニックになったロンは部下のウィルソンを誤射して死なせてしまい、遂にロン自身も銃弾に倒れ脊髄を損傷し下半身不随となる。故郷に戻るロンだがアメリカで彼を待っていたものは国を守る英雄としての賞賛の言葉ではなく非難と嘲笑の嵐だった。
The Hanoi Hilton
Original Music Composer
Lionel Chetwynd's film documents the horrific struggles that faced American POWs held in the North Vietnamese prison Hoa Lo -- more infamously known as the Hanoi Hilton -- between 1964 and 1975. Williamson (Michael Moriarty) leads a group of American servicemen who are prisoners at the detention camp. He assumes command after Cathcart (Lawrence Pressman) is dragged off to be tortured.
The Last Unicorn
Original Music Composer
From a riddle-speaking butterfly, a unicorn learns that she is supposedly the last of her kind, all the others having been herded away by the Red Bull. The unicorn sets out to discover the truth behind the butterfly's words. She is eventually joined on her quest by Schmendrick, a second-rate magician, and Molly Grue, a now middle-aged woman who dreamed all her life of seeing a unicorn. Their journey leads them far from home, all the way to the castle of King Haggard.
Voices
Original Music Composer
An up-and-coming nightclub singer falls in love with a shy young deaf teacher who aspires to be a dancer.
Doc
Music
A revisionist western, "Doc" is Frank Perry's attempt to accurately portray the lives and persons of Doc Holliday, Wyatt Earp, and the now-legendary events that took place in the town of Tombstone, starring Stacy Keach, Faye Dunaway and Harris Yulin.