![]() And I thought he had done a good enough job singing Lerner & Loewe that I thought I could make a record with him. He had gotten through the score and it was considered successful. I mean, it wasn't perfect, but he had sung it. And he had sung all the Lerner & Loewe stuff. He had just done a very successful top-grossing motion picture, which was a musical version of Camelot. And that takes us to the question, which is, Why would you get an actor instead of a singer? Well, he was a singer. The first one was called A Tramp Shining. The second album was called The Yard Went on Forever. And a lot of people think the second album was better than the first. 'MacArthur Park' was kind of in the pile, but we had a lot of songs that we were interested in doing. I got on a 707 and flew to London and started doing this record with Richard. Love, Richard.' And it was the first time I was ever out of the country. So one day I got a telegram over at my house on Camino Palmero that said, 'Dear Jimmy Webb, come London, make record. And we were just kind of tossing around that thing about, 'Wow, one of these days we ought to make a record.' And I used to say that to everybody, I'd say that to a cab driver. In our off-time we used to like to play the piano backstage and sing and have a few beers, and Richard and I got to be really good friends. Robinson, Mia Farrow and some other people, and I was doing music. We were doing like an anti-war pageant with Walter Pidgeon, Edward G. Explaining how he got together with the actor, Webb told Songfacts, "I met Richard on stage at the Coronet Theatre in Los Angeles. Webb produced this song for Richard Harris, crossing the Atlantic Ocean several times in the process. There's been a lot of intellectual venom." But people have very strong reactions to the song. It was what I saw in the park at the birthday parties. Those lyrics were all very real to me - there was nothing psychedelic about it to me. She worked across the street at a life insurance company. Said Webb (in the Los Angeles Times), "MacArthur Park was where we met for lunch and paddleboat rides and feeding the ducks. The love affair Webb speaks of was with Suzy Horton, who in 1993 married Linda Ronstadt's cousin, Bobby. OK, it may be far out there, and a bit incomprehensible, but I wrote the song at a time in the late 1960s when surrealistic lyrics were the order of the day." Jimmy Webb, who wrote the song, explained in Q magazine: "It's clearly about a love affair ending, and the person singing it is using the cake and the rain as a metaphor for that. MacArthur Park is a real park in the Westlake neighborhood of Los Angeles, but that's about the only tangible reference. It does not store any personal data.With the famous "cake out in the rain," this is one of the more lyrically intriguing songs ever recorded. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. ![]() The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". ![]() These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly.
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