Clowns Exit Laughing: Jimmy Webb Songbook / Var Clowns Exit Laughing: Jimmy Webb Songbook / Var CD

UK collection. Ace's highly regarded and extremely popular Songwriter Series continues apace, with several exciting projects in place for release in the second half of 2022 and beyond. This month we welcome Jimmy Webb onto our expanding list with "Clowns Exit Laughing", a deep dip into this prolific tunesmith's extensive catalogue of the past six decades. After a period of establishing his credentials as a writer with Motown's West Coast office, Jimmy really came into his own in the mid-60s with classic songs like 'By The Time I Get To Phoenix', 'Wichita Lineman' and 'Up, Up And Away'. Everyone wanted to record a Jimmy Webb copyright, and a great many people did as this CD demonstrates. Although Jimmy has never stopped writing, "Clowns Exit Laughing" naturally concentrates on a time when a new Jimmy Webb classic seemed to appear every other week. As is always Ace's policy with the Songwriter Series, each featured artist performs only one song but we are sure that inclusions by the likes of Tony Joe White, Dionne Warwick, Dusty Springfield and other major names will disappoint nobody. Also included for collectors are several rare, seldom-heard original versions of songs primarily associated with other artists, such as Don Ho's original of 'Galveston' and James Darren's first recording of 'Didn't We'.

1. By the Time I Get to Phoenix - Glen Campbell 2. Up, Up and Away - Dionne Warwick 3. Carpet Man - the Nocturnes 4. When Eddie Comes Home - the Everly Brothers 5. I Need You - Shane Martin 6. Honey Come Back - Chuck Jackson 7. Where's the Playground, Susie? - Everything But the Girl 8. Midnight Mail - Joey Scarbury 9. The Moon's a Harsh Mistress - the Walker Brothers 10. Wichita Lineman - Tony Joe White 11. Didn't We - James Darren 12. MacArthur Park - Waylon Jennings ; the Kimberlys 13. I Keep It Hid - the Supremes 14. Do What You Gotta Do - Nina Simone 15. Galveston - Don Ho 16. The Worst That Could Happen - B.J. Thomas 17. Requiem: 820 Latham - Mel Torm? 18. Magic Garden - Dusty Springfield 19. Rosecrans BLVD. - the 5th Dimension 20. Which Way to Nowhere - the Brooklyn Bridge 21. Clowns Exit Laughing - the Fortunes 22. P.F. Sloan - Rumer 23. Highwayman - Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson 24. If This Was the Last Song - Dee Dee Warwick with the Dixie Flyers