Awards & Winners

Jimmy Webb

Date of Birth 15-August-1946
Place of Birth Elk City
(Beckham County, Oklahoma)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Jimmy L. Webb, Webb, Jimmy, Jimmy Layne Webb
Profession Songwriter, Composer, Singer, Singer-songwriter, Writer, Artist
James Layne "Jimmy" Webb is an 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 artists, including The 5th Dimension, Glen Campbell, The Supremes, Richard Harris, Johnny Maestro, Frank Sinatra, Thelma Houston, The Temptations, Barbra Streisand, Art Garfunkel, Joe Cocker, Judy Collins, Donna Summer, Linda Ronstadt, America, Amy Grant, John Denver, Michael Feinstein, Rosemary Clooney, R.E.M., and Carly Simon. Webb was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1986 and the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1990. He received the National Academy of Songwriters Lifetime Achievement Award in 1993, the Songwriters Hall of Fame Johnny Mercer Award in 2003, the ASCAP "Voice of Music" Award in 2006, and the Ivor Novello Special International Award in 2012. 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.

Awards by Jimmy Webb

Check all the awards nominated and won by Jimmy Webb.

1985


Grammy Award for Best Country Song
Honored for : Highwayman

Nominations 1985 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Country Song Highwayman

1968


Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)
Honored for : MacArthur Park
(Arranger)

Nominations 1968 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) MacArthur Park

1967


Grammy Award for Song of the Year
Honored for : Up, Up and Away
(Songwriter)

Nominations 1967 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Song of the Year Up, Up and Away