Richard Harris's claim to fame

[Susan Miller]

Amy Gourley wrote:
I couldn't believe when my mother-in-law told me a while ago that
> Richard Harris wrote it-I asked the Richard Harris, Dumbledore and 
she said
> yes.> 
> Amy G.

I don't know how that rumor got started, but your mother-in-law is 
incorrect, sorry. It was Jimmy Webb who wrote the tune and the 
lyrics. JW also wrote By the time I get to Phoenix, Wichita Lineman 
and Up, Up and Away.

I think the confusion is that Jimmy Webb is sometimes confused with 
Harry Webb who goes by the name Cliff Richard. How we get from Cliff 
Richard to Richard Harris, I don't know. Jimmy Webb wrote the twisted 
song about soggy cakes.

~ Constance Vigilance