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Jimmy Webb chooses the Tracks of My Years

24/01/2018

BBC Radio 2 - Ken Bruce, Jimmy Webb chooses the Tracks of My Years

Jimmy Webb chooses the Tracks of My Years plus the PopMaster Music Quiz.

Jimmy Webb chooses the Tracks of My Years and Ken reveals two of the tracks hoping to represent the UK at the Eurovision Song Contest 2018.

Jimmy Webb, American songwriter, composer and singer, chooses the Tracks of My Years with music from David Bowie and Glen Campbell. Jimmy has written numerous platinum-selling songs, 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". He has had successful collaborations with Glen Campbell, Michael Feinstein, Linda Ronstadt, The 5th Dimension, Art Garfunkel, and Richard Harris. 

The award-winning musician 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. 

Ken also reveals two of the artists hoping to represent the UK at the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 and plays their songs in full as part of Eurovision: You Decide. He also has the love song, record and album of the week plus PopMaster. If you'd like to get in touch with the show email Ken.Bruce@bbc.co.uk.

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