In 1968, "Time" acknowledged Webb's range, proficiency, and "gift for strong, varied rhythms, inventive structures, and rich, sometimes surprising harmonies". That year, the string of successful Webb songs continued with the 5th Dimension's "Paper Cup" and "Carpet Man" reaching the Top 40, Glen Campbell's "Wichita Lineman" selling over a million copies, and Johnny Maestro & the Brooklyn Bridge scoring a gold record with "Worst That Could Happen", a song originally recorded by the 5th Dimension. Webb formed his own production and publishing company that year, Canopy, and scored a hit with its first project, an unlikely album with Irish actor Richard Harris singing an album of all Webb songs. One of the songs, "MacArthur Park", was a long, complex piece with multiple movements that was originally rejected by the group The Association. Despite the song's seven minute, twenty-one second length, Harris's version reached #2 on the Hot 100 on 22 June 1968. The album, "A Tramp Shining," stayed on the charts for almost a year. Webb and Harris produced a follow-up album, "The Yard Went On Forever", which was also successful. Further raising Webb's stature as a songwriter, "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" was performed by the legendary Frank Sinatra on the latter's 1968 album "Cycles". Sinatra would go on to praise "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" as "the greatest torch song ever written." At the 1969 Grammy Awards, Webb accepted awards for "By the Time I Get to Phoenix", "Wichita Lineman", and "MacArthur Park". In 2019 "Wichita Lineman" was added to the National Recording Registry.