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Jimmy Webb: Ten Years After 'Phoenix' He's Still Looking For Hit City

Todd Everett, Phonograph Record, June 1977

JIMMY WEBB is the still-under-30 composer who appeared from nowhere nine years ago with a spate of pop hits including 'By the Time I Get to Phoenix', 'Up, Up and Away', and 'MacArthur Park'.

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