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April 1968 and "McArthur Park" by Richard Harris

Friday, April 25, 2025 1:25

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“Mac Arthur’s Park” was released in April and was heard on the radio during the summer of 1968.

In an unusual move, Richard Harris, the great actor, got together with composer Jimmy Webb and the result was MacArthur Park.

Webb was a great songwriter. He wrote Glen Campbell’s “By The Time I Get To Phoenix“, “Galveston” and “Wichita Lineman“, The Fifth Dimension’s “Up, up and away” and Art Ganfunkel’s “All I know“.

“MacArthur Park’s” arrangement was over 7 minutes long! It is really two songs, the vocal portion and a wonderful instrumental bridge in the middle.

Today, some people think that “MacArthur Park” is one of the worst songs ever recorded. (Pop music madness)

Some people really like it! (Macarthur Park is the greatest song ever)

It was many many years ago. Here is the song and the lyrics:

“Spring was never waiting for us, girl

It ran one step ahead As we followed in the dance

Between the parted pages and

were pressed In love’s hot, fevered iron

Like a striped pair of pants

MacArthur’s Park is melting in the dark

All the sweet, green icing flowing down

Someone left the cake out in the rain

I don’t think that I can take it’

Cause it took so long to bake it

And I’ll never have that recipe again Oh, no!

I recall the yellow cotton dress

Foaming like a wave

On the ground around your knees

The birds, like tender babies in your hands

And the old men playing checkers by the trees

MacArthur’s Park is melting in the dark

All the sweet, green icing flowing down

Someone left the cake out in the rain

I don’t think that I can take it’ Cause it took so long to bake it

And I’ll never have that recipe again Oh, no!

There will be another song for me For I will sing it

There will be another dream for me

Someone will bring itI will drink the wine while it is warm

And never let you catch me looking at the sun

And after all the loves of my life

After all the loves of my life You’ll still be the one

I will take my life into my hands and I will use it

I will win the worship in their eyes and I will lose it.

I will have the things that I desire

And my passion flow like rivers through the sky

And after all the loves of my life

After all the loves of my life I’ll be thinking of you

And wondering why

MacArthur’s Park is melting in the dark

All the sweet, green icing flowing down

Someone left the cake out in the rain

I don’t think that I can take it

Cause it took so long to bake it

And I’ll never have that recipe again

Oh, no! Oh, no No, no Oh no!! “

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Source: http://cantotalk.blogspot.com/2020/07/summer-1968-and-mcarthur-park-by.html

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