Company Needs Misery

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MacArthur Park

Posted on | April 20, 2010 | Comments Off

Another trip down musical memory lane had our heroine’s ipod playing MacArthur Park sung by Richard Harris. The song was first recorded by Richard Harris in 1968. He made it to #2 in US charts which is pretty amazing considering the length of the song and the fact it was about leaving a cake out in the rain. Of course to any kid in the 1970s, this was a horrible thing making this song a must have sing-a-long…at least in her house.
The most interesting piece of trivia related to any of this is that the late Richard Harris later went on to play the original Dumbledore in the Harry Potter movies.  Not everyone knew that.

Donna Summer covered the song 10 years later and did very well with it, but it never captured the emotional drama of “cake demise” that the Richard Harris version did. Apparently though, people liked the disco version and it stayed high on the charts. It still baffled her mind that a song like this could make it not once but twice to the charts at all, but it just goes to show you can sing about just about anything and people will listen. (Just like one could write about just about anything and people will read it.)

“Someone left the cake out… in the rain. I don’ think that I can take it, because it took so long to bake it, and I’ll never have that recipe again… oooooooh nooooooo!!!!!!!!!!

Category: Music: Sometimes Pleasure, Sometimes Pain, Nostalgia, Ramblings

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