The Cake and the Rain [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Webb, Jimmy

Published by St. Martin's Griffin, New York, 2018

New condition spiral-bound photographic softcover wraps with a clear see-through plastic cover overlaying both the front and rear covers. Includes Preliminary Page Quote by W.H. Auden; Rear Appendix Section consisting of: Top 100 Charts (of Jimmy Webb's hit songs) - United States; Top 100 Charts - U.S. Country; Top 100 Charts - U.S. Adult Contemporary; Top 100 Charts - U.S. Dance; Top 100 Charts - U.S. R&B; Top of the Charts - UK; Highlights: Jimmy Webb Awards & Honors; Highlights of Award & Recognitions for Jimmy Webb Works and Compositions; Artists Who Have Performed or Recorded Jimmy Webb Songs (Partial List); Artists Who Have Recorded "Macarthur Park" (partial list); Jimmy Webb Song List (partial list); Albums; Collaborative Albums; Compilation Albums; Songs About and/or Mentioning Jimmy Webb; Acknowledgments; and About the Author. "Jimmy Webb's words have been sung to his music by a rich and deep roster of pop artists, including Glen Campbell, Art Garfunkel, Frank Sinatra, Donna Summer and Linda Ronstadt. He's the only artist ever to win Grammy Awards for music, lyrics, and orchestration, and his chart-topping career has, so far, lasted fifty years, from hits such as "Up, Up and Away," Wichita Lineman, and MacArthur Park to most recently a Kanye West rap song and a classical nocturne. Now Webb delivers a snapshot of his life from 1955 to 1970, from the proverbial humble beginnings into a moneyed and manic international world of beautiful women, drugs, cars and planes. That stew almost took him down - but Webb survived, his passion for music among his lifelines. Webb's talent as a writer and storyteller is here on every page. His book is rich with a sense of time and place, and with the voices of characters, vanished and living, famous and not, when life seemed nothing more than a party." - from the rear outer cover. "During the late sixties and early seventies, Jimmy Webb was arguably the most successful mainstream songwriter alive .At the heart of [the book] is his struggle to carve out his own identity as he lived a double life as a Middle American fixture with counter-cultural artistic ambitions." - Rolling Stone. "I am devouring Jimmy Webb's autobiography right now. The Cake and the Rain takes me inside the life of [an] extraordinary gifted friend of mine." - Art Garfunkel. Seller Inventory # 004084

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Cake and the Rain [FIRST EDITION, FIRST ...
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin, New York
Publication Date: 2018
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New
Edition: 1st Edition