Jimmy Webb
was one of the hottest songwriters of the late 1960s, with hits for the Fifth
Dimension (“Up, Up And Away”), Richard Harris (“MacArthur Park”), Glen Campbell
(“By The Time I Get To Phoenix”, “Wichita Lineman”, “Galveston”), and others.
This one was recorded by Thelma Houston (no relation to Whitney) and a few
other folks around that same time, but Patti Austin really made it her own as part
of her fine The Real Me album in
1988, where it actually manages to outshine her excellent versions of
better-known classics such as “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes” and “Cry Me A River.”
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