MacArthur Park: What’s It All About, Jimmy
MacArthur Park: What’s It All About, Jimmy – page full of clippings and links related to “MacArthur Park”, Jimmy Webb’s metaphor-heavy angst epic, which has long been a source of cheap gags re. its supposed impenetrability. In fact “MacArthur Park”, while a bit absurd, is clear as day: it’s only the fact it was sung by an Actor rather than a True Singing Artist that gives it a bad rep and lets Dylan off a thousand lyrical hooks.
The oddest thing here is Webb talking of writing a ‘sequel’ to MacArthur. There was a sequel, in 1969, called The Yard Went On Forever, an album which I thought was abysmal the first time I heard it and am gradually coming to think is one of the best records of the whole 60s. Do by all means track it down.
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Does any body have a score of Macarthur Park for a concert band, marching band, or anything?
So the cake’s a wedding cake, innit? No stranger than Up Up And Away really.
“What’s it all about, Jimmy?”
Is that from Look Back In Anger? In which case, the response is one of my favourite film lines ever (especially as delivered by Richard Burton).