Tag: album cut
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All I Know
words & music by Jimmy Webb • arranged/performed by Doug Howell© Universal – Polygram International Pub Inc. Favorite version: Art Garfunkel, Angel Clare, 1973 I bruise you, you bruise mewe both bruise too easilytoo easily to let it showI love you, and that’s all I know all my plans are falling throughall my plans depend…
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Met Him on a Plane
(originally “Met Her on a Plane”) words/music by Jimmy Webb • arranged/performed by Doug Howell© Universal – Polygram International Pub Inc. Favorite version: Jimmy Webb, And So: On, 1971 met him on a planeI had forgotten I was made of glassI watched the cars and crows and cities passI watched the sun till I was…
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Simile
words/music by Jimmy Webb • arranged/performed by Doug Howell© Universal – Polygram International Pub Inc. Favorite version: Jimmy Webb, Letters, 1972 this is the answer to the letter unsentwhich even so arrived some years laterlike a song sometimes written for lovelong before it is alive oh, the poem sighed to sweet facescaught away from some…
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Shattered
words/music by Jimmy Webb • arranged/performed by Doug Howell© Universal – Polygram International Pub Inc. Favorite version: Linda Ronstadt, Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind, 1989 Notes Even though I love Ronstadt’s version of this, I’ve always thought it was too short. I guess I just love the song so much I never…
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Skywriter
words/music by Jimmy Webb • arranged/performed by Doug Howell© Universal – Polygram International Pub Inc. Favorite version: Jimmy Webb, Twilight Of The Renegades, 2005 Notes A friend helped me discover this song, for I had somehow missed it when it was first released. I love how the rootless, restless lyrics float over the rootless, restless…
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Wooden Planes
(aka “A Song for My Brother”) words/music by Jimmy Webb • arranged/performed by Doug Howell© Universal – Polygram International Pub Inc. Favorite version: B. J. Thomas, Billy Joe Thomas, 1972 Notes Speaking of flyin’ games, here’s another. Again we’re chasing after something unattainable. Again we think our flight will never end. It was the last…
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When Can Brown Begin
words/music by Jimmy Webb • arranged/performed by Doug Howell© Universal – Polygram International Pub Inc. Favorite version: Jimmy Webb, Letters, 1972 Notes If after the first six songs you’re still unsure whether Jimmy is a dreamer or not, this one should do the trick. This song is about so much more than racism—don’t stop until…
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If Ships Were Made To Sail
words/music by Jimmy Webb • arranged/performed by Doug Howell© Universal – Polygram International Pub Inc. Favorite version: Jimmy Webb, And So: On, 1971 Notes Oh, the images in this song! This one is right up there with Joni’s “River” in the “running away” genre. “If I could fall up the long night, reach to time…
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Love Hurts
words/music by Boudleaux Bryant • arranged/performed by Doug Howell© House of Bryant Publications Favorite version: Jimmy Webb, Letters, 1972 Notes Jimmy didn’t write this song, but I “discovered” it on his Letters album. And the way he sings it, he might as well have written it. As I said, I often performed it, and I…
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How Quickly
words/music by Jimmy Webb • arranged/performed by Doug Howell© Universal – Polygram International Pub Inc. Reviews Well, with ‘How Quickly’, you have once again given it a lovely, subtle and sensitively written arrangement and vocal to match, and added the gutsy guitar licks (beautifully but boldly played by Dan Leonhardt) to prevent the whole thing…
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Shine It on Me
(aka “You Might As Well Smile”) words/music by Jimmy Webb • arranged/performed by Doug Howell© Universal – Polygram International Pub Inc. Favorite version: Art Garfunkel, Watermark, 1978 Notes These next three songs are so resolute and positive and indefatigable that I’m hoping they’ll inspire you to forgive me for the previous two… This one’s a…
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Lightning in a Bottle
words/music by Jimmy Webb • arranged/performed by Doug Howell© Universal – Polygram International Pub Inc. Favorite version: Jennifer Warnes, soundtrack from Winter People, 1989 Notes Like the previous song, it starts out rather ordinary—”all I have to do is”—and then zings you at the end—”catch some lightning in a bottle.” Like it’s the easiest thing…
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Another Lullaby
words/music by Jimmy Webb • arranged/performed by Doug Howell© Universal – Polygram International Pub Inc. Favorite version: Art Garfunkel, Angel Clare, 1973 close your eyesmy pretty childthough the night is darkand the wind is wildI will stand beside your bedtonight there is nothingyou need fear or dread you can sleep nowgo to sleepthe rain falls…
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Asleep on the Wind
words/music by Jimmy Webb • arranged/performed by Doug Howell© Universal – Polygram International Pub Inc. Favorite version: Jimmy Webb, Land’s End, 1974 love is a glass of wineit‘s balanced on the siderail of a shipacross the sea at midnight comeit may not last the daylight comeand the trip is longand the waves are strongbut then…
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Jesus Never Fails
words and music by Doug Howell© Bud John Songs (orig Lexicon Music, Inc.) • Used by permission Jesus never failsJesus never failsI’ve got a friendwho won’t ever forsake meJesus never fails Jesus never fails me when I need HimJesus never failsI’ve got a friendwho won’t ever forsake meoh, Jesus never fails He gives me songs…
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Oh, September
words & music by Doug Howell (6 Aug 1980) oh, Septemberwhy’d you have to come so soonjust when I finally started to have some funI remember wellthe spell of an August moonand I was just gettin used to livin in the sunlook what you’ve done,September summer’s warmth is gone nowthere’s that coolness in the airseems…
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So Many Ways (2022)
words & music by Doug Howell • © 1974 Trinity Sound Corp, assigned to Creative Measures LLC today I watched the morning suncome up redcome up warm as it blushedto kiss my cheekthe birds singing love songsin my headin my heart they sang thingsthat no one could speakand the dew drops were sparklin‘ just like…
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The Song of Songs
Music by Doug Howell, Lyrics by Hannah Hurnard (based on The Song of Solomon) the song of songs, the loveliest songthe song of Love, the Kingno joy on earth compares with hisbut seems a broken thinghis name as ointment is poured forthand all his lovers sing draw me, I will run after theethou art my…
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Make Me Just Like You
words & music by Doug Howell (8 Aug 1974) I’ve been seein’ things that I just shouldn’t seeand I’ve been tryin’ to be things in my mind I shouldn’t beI’ve been goin’ places I really shouldn’t goLord, You’re my last chance for life and loveI know, I know oh, make me pure and holy, Lordmake…
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House on the Ocean
words and music by Doug Howell (12 Jan 1978) I’ve always wanted a house on the oceanall made of glass, perched high on a hillthen every morning I’d wake with the sunriseand every night rock to sleep with the wavesall down the stairway that leads to the waterflowers are dancing in time with the breeze…