Jim Webb Sings Jim Webb [SEP] named after
Jim Webb Sings Jim Webb
Jim Webb Sings Jim Webb is the debut album by American singer-songwriter Jimmy Webb, released in 1968 on Epic Records.
Background.
The album consists of a set of early demo recordings, redubbed and reorchestrated by Epic Records without Webb's participation or consent. None of Webb's hit songs from that period appear on the album, and the sound quality of the recording is inferior. Webb later denounced the release in the strongest terms:
Critical reception.
Webb strongly disliked
rough start with the "counterfeit" album "Jim Webb Sings Jim Webb", released by Epic Records in 1968. According to Webb, the album was produced "by a bunch of ruffians from some old demos of mine and tarted up to sound like 'MacArthur Park'". Beginning in 1970, Webb released six original albums of his own songs: "Words and Music" (1970), "" (1971), "Letters" (1972), "Land's End" (1974),