Story behind MacArthur's Park

I'm listening to the original recording right now. Very good.

timberlandko -- Of course, there was a popular practice in the late 60s and early 70s known as "messing with their minds" that this sort of story neatly exemplifies. Besides, people in the entertainment industry are never models of veracity: just think of how many contradictory auto-biographes Suzanne Somers has penned.

Whose Suzanne Somers?

Dunno whose she is, but who she is is she played a stereotypical blonde ditz



On a characteritiscally lightweight late '70s-early-'80s American sitcom



Last seen doin' excersize videos and infomercials.

Destined, no doubt, for well-earned obscurity.

]She's a bit 'old' for bunches.......has she just had a glass of milk?

Now thatchya mention it, I think she did some "Got milk?" ads too ... but I dunno whats up with her upper lip in that picture up there.

Probably overdone the 'Touche Eclait' make up tricks to make the lips appear 'fuller'............Superjuly doesn't need it! :wink:

The bottom of it comes from a relationship Jimmy Webb had with a girl in Los Angeles (MacArthur Park is not in San Francisco as someone claimed. It's on the red line from L.A. Union station). She worked in insurance and they used to meet for lunch in the park. The cake out in the rain was their love affair that she finished and Jimmy Webb wrote the song with a broken heart. The baking was the effort that Jimmy put into the affair which he knew he would never be able to do again. He eventually went back with her.

The song has a great deal of atmosphere and I can't see how the meaning overcomes logic and reason.

I like the story of the bet with Richard Harris so much better and it works as a reflection of reality so much better.