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Long interview, but the best and most in depth interview I've ever seen with Jimmy Webb. I had no idea he worked for Motown writing songs at age 17. The songs (their rights) they let him walk away with (free) when he left is chuckle worthy.

Here's a 29 minute 57 second video of the Shindig Halloween Show from 1965. The only copy available available has a missing five minute segment that had four cut songs including Boris Karloff singing The Monster Mash! The missing audio segment was recorded by Lionelatwill in 1965, when he was only a kid, (a smart kid) and those missing minutes were edited in to the video from the 13:17 to 19:15 section. I edited some of the show's other video clips and then synched to Lionelatwil's audio. Here's the closest thing to the complete episode available. Enjoy the blast from...

Tom Taylor @TomTaylorFO Sat 18th Jun 2022 17.08 BST Bob Dylan called it the “greatest song ever written” and while it may have been lauded by noble dignitaries of culture ever since it was released, derided at every turn, it is this proclamation that seems most significant. The poignancy of the praise does not reside in the fact that it came from a revered numen of the arts, but rather because during the era in which it was written no other musician was extolling virtues with as much vivacious truth as Dylan himself. When these profound, poetic and prescient, but...

Find attached a slowed down version of Glen singing Galveston w/ Jimmy Webb accompanying. The two of them together were nothing short of amazing.Glen Travis Campbell (born April 22, 1936) is an American rock and country music singer, guitarist, songwriter, television host, and occasional actor. He is best known for a series of hits in the 1960s and 1970s, and for hosting a music and comedy variety show called The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour on CBS television from January 1969 through June 1972.During his 50 years in show business, Campbell has released more than 70 albums. He has sold 45...

What the heck is Jimmy Webb doing in the Democrat Party? As I said before in a previous column on USDW, it is high time Webb is rescued from the clutches of the DNC. Webb’s campaign is in a collapsed mine shaft in the Cascade Range. As he stumbles around with a cursorily made torch and a Randall knife, probing for answers to the world’s problems, Colonel Sam Trautman, Special Forces, has been sent in to pull him out and bring him back to the RNC. Covey Leader calling Raven…Talk to me Jimmy… They’re all gone sir. No more hawks...

Forty-six years ago today (Jan. 22, 1969), Glen Campbell struck gold for the first time. It was on this day that the singer earned the first gold single of his career, signifying sales of 500,000 copies, with ‘Wichita Lineman.’ The song, which was the title track of Campbell’s 12th studio album, was written by Jimmy Webb, who got the inspiration for the tune while driving through Washita County, Okla., when he saw a lone telephone lineman working on the top of a telephone pole. “I’m a songwriter, and I can write about anything I want to,” Webb says of his...