Hawkee
12-13-2020, 05:24 AM
I was listening to my Donna Summer album and when I heard the song MacArthur Park I have never figured out what MacArthur Park was? Was it a dessert someone made? Because the lyrics mention that "MacArthur Park is melting in the dark all the sweet cream icing flowing down" and every time I hear the song I have gotten curious to know what MacArthur Park's really about. I also know that the late Richard Harris sang it as well as Glen Campbell and Weird Al Yankovic sang a parody to it called Jurassic Park. Is there an actual dessert named MacArthur Park?
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Coffeecup
12-24-2020, 01:33 PM
I remember hearing that song sung by Richard Harris decades back and thought the song was so goofy and I never did like it. Sometimes you wonder how the song did so well and I remember the song was somewhat long. Over 4minutes which was long in the early 1970's
Bonniegirl
12-24-2020, 07:08 PM
As far as I know it is about Mac Arthur park in Los Angeles!?
Hawkee
12-25-2020, 04:33 AM
Oh, so that's what the song MacArthur Park's really about? My uncle who loved Donna Summer used to play that song all the time on his 8-track player and MacArthur Park was one of his favorite Donna Summer songs
Thank you for the reply Bonnie and Merry Christmas
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GentlemanJim
01-23-2021, 03:27 PM
I was listening to my Donna Summer album and when I heard the song MacArthur Park I have never figured out what MacArthur Park was? Was it a dessert someone made? Because the lyrics mention that "MacArthur Park is melting in the dark all the sweet cream icing flowing down" and every time I hear the song I have gotten curious to know what MacArthur Park's really about.
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The song is a bundle of metaphors. According to it's writer, (https://www.newsday.com/entertainment/music/jimmy-webb-discusses-famous-lyrics-in-macarthur-park-1.9477080) Jimmy Webb, It's an abstract painting, but in musical form. It was about the decay and failure of a relationship he was having, where the MacArthur park in LA was a frequent meeting place for them.
Extra point: The song "By the Time I get to Phoenix" was also written by Webb, and represented the "follow through" of this same relationship's failure.