Grammy award winning songwriter Jimmy Webb appeared at Northern Oklahoma College last Tuesday as part of the NOC Renfro Lectureship Series.Webb played a 90-minute set and then participated in a 30-minute Q&A Session with NOC students and audience members.The event was sponsored by the Carl and Carolyn Renfro Endowed Lectureship Program and Northern Oklahoma College.The Oklahoma native, has written songs that transcend generations and genres including Wichita Lineman, MacArthur Park, By the Time I Get to Phoenix, and Didn’t We.A Motown-trained composer, Webb writes all of his own lyrics and music and is the only hit maker to have scored songs on the Pop, Country, R&B, Rap, Disco and New Age charts.During this “Evening with Jimmy Webb,” guests will hear this multi-Grammy Award winner’s songs and experience his insightful and often humorous stories about his work with Glen Campbell, Frank Sinatra, Linda Ronstadt (Still Within the Sound of My Voice), Art Garfunkel (All I Know), The Fifth Dimension (Up, Up and Away), The Highwaymen (The Highwayman), Kanye West (Famous, features Webb’s Do What You Gotta Do), and more.
