# ‘Jimmy Webb: American Songwriter’: 5 Best Moments From the PBS Special: ‘Those Songs Are So Timeless; So Rich’

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/jimmy-webb-american-songwriter-5-best-moments-from-the-pbs-special-those-songs-are-so-timeless-so-rich/
- Published: 2026-10-30T13:00:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-30T13:24:41+00:00
- Original publisher: Billboard
- Original article: https://www.billboard.com/lists/jimmy-webb-american-songwriter-pbs-special-highlights/
- Topics: Entertainment, Music

## Key points

- PBS celebrates Jimmy Webb’s songwriting career.
- Vince Gill performs two Glen Campbell classics.
- Ashley Campbell joins the special in tribute to her father.

## Summary

The PBS special *Jimmy Webb: American Songwriter* celebrates the composer’s career through performances and reflections from fellow musicians. Vince Gill and Lyle Lovett discuss Webb’s distinctive songwriting while performing songs associated with Glen Campbell, whose original recordings Gill described as untouchable.

The programme traces Webb’s success from “Up — Up and Away”, which reached the Billboard Hot 100 top 10 in 1967, through songs including “MacArthur Park”, “Didn’t We” and “All I Know”. Gill sings “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” and “Wichita Lineman”, Lovett performs “Galveston”, and Glen Campbell’s daughter Ashley joins Webb and the others for songs including “Highwayman” and “Adios”.

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