My fallback position after all these years is I will tell you that I've told deliberately false stories to people. And the truth is that everything in the song was visible. There's nothing in it that's fabricated. The old men playing checkers by the trees, the cake that was left out in the rain, all of the things that are talked about in the song are things I actually saw. And so it's a kind of musical collage of this whole love affair that kind of went down in MacArthur Park.
But it's related to 'MacArthur Park' in that sense. It comes from the same period when I was experiencing things and pretty much transferring them immediately into music.
Back then, I was kind of like an emotional machine, like whatever was going on inside me would bubble out of the piano and onto paper. Savini, a Public Television host-producer, is almost as good a storyteller as her renowned songwriting husband. Nearly five decades after the song's release, she says she's constantly getting queries about it. It's art, but in a musical form. Or, if you are already a subscriber Sign in.
Other options. Close drawer menu Financial Times International Edition. Search the FT Search. World Show more World. US Show more US. Companies Show more Companies. Markets Show more Markets. Opinion Show more Opinion. Thus, Webb flew to London and after Harris rejected all of his song suggestions, he threw out "MacArthur Park" at the last second and Harris was set on it. Source: Pinterest. They recorded the song December 21, with famous session group The Wrecking Crew backing Harris and Webb himself playing the harpsichord.
Despite its length which would usually be discarded by radio stations, MacArthur Park was a success reaching no. Harris had actually promised Webb he would give him his Rolls-Royce Phantom Five if the song was a hit, but he did not keep that promise and Webb never received the car.
Source: Dangerous Minds. The confusing lyrics have driven people crazy trying to analyze the strange metaphors. Webb kept the true meaning of the song hidden for decades until he finally explained in a interview with Newsday. It turns out there were no metaphors or hidden context in the misunderstood song, but it was a straight-forward story of exactly what Webb witnessed in MacArthur Park. The song was also an extremely sophisticated composition that was composed of four different sections of various instrumentation and key changes that featured a dramatic crescendo of epic proportions.
The vivid imagery Webb created portrayed his uncontrollable and frantic emotions that developed from his broken heart. Perhaps MacArthur Park just focused a little too deeply on the cake that was left out of the rain, the line that baffled listeners and became the butt of jokes for the following decades. Cover of Waylon Jennings' album with The Kimberlys.
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