@wayne
Jimmy Webb is one of my true american music heros. I mean, he writes this pop and sort of country stuff with so much feeling and appealing musicality, genres and styles I normally shun but his stuff is just so good.
Do you have his El Mirage album? It has his own version of it (along with p.f.sloan and christian no - also both great tunes). I think it might be strange that I prefer his own weak voice on it over Glen Campbell’s as well as all the others. He did a couple of later recordings of it including a duet with Joe Cocker but i like the 1977 version of it best. This may be in large part due to me being completely susceptible to nostalgia - a thing Mr Webb excels at evoking.