This version sung by Richard Harris is the best.

@DavoZed

Ай бұрын

Donna Summer's various versions are dramatically better than this Harris one and her symphonic 17 minute version is a masterpiece. Sorry.

One of the best arrangements and songs of all-time.

This has been probably my most favorite version of McArthur's Park, and the original version as well as far as I know. Actors were always mad that they could not make a hit song while musicians could make hit movies. Richard Harris broke that mold with this song. The other version I like is by Donna Summer, I remember it being released while I was in High School. Recently I found out that Jimmy Webb the songs writer wrote about things he had seen while with his girlfriend in McArthur's Park, yes, it is a real place located in Los Angeles, California.

@elainestanton1376

4 ай бұрын

That's good another thing I did not know about this great song..

Immortal song ❤️

Jimmy Webb wrote this song about a woman he was in love with, and would take her to MacArthur Park in L.A.

@cynthiagreske5957

3 ай бұрын

So that’s why it’s called MacArthur Park! I always wondered about that title. I have loved that song since I was in high school in 1968. It’s a fantastic song and the orchestra that played with him was excellent.. I wish I could’ve seen him seeing this live because it meant so much to me. And thanks Jimmy Webb for writing it.

Jimmy Webb was only 22 when he composed all the songs in that A Tramp Shinning album, made the arrangements and supervised the instruments recording in L.A. before sending the tapes to Richard Harris, who was in the U.K., to provide his vocals. That's comparable to Orson Welles creating his Citizen Kane masterpiece at age 25. Incredible !!!

A sumptuous recipe for body mind and soul....

@robertandrew5768

4 ай бұрын

Well done. The best comment on this beautiful, haunting song I have ever heard. Many thanks .

So wonderful - things don't have to make sense

@tonysmolenski5766

9 ай бұрын

Good thing. They don’t make sense

@carmeldelaney1086

9 ай бұрын

But It made sense to Jimmy Webb!

@DugrozReports

Ай бұрын

Lots of the things make sense if you think of them as "word pictures."

This song belongs to Richard Harris! No one else should be allowed to sing it.

@danielhamilton1130

5 ай бұрын

Now its nice to share!

@nickwerner7983

2 ай бұрын

What about Jurassic Park by Weird Al?

@jltrem

Ай бұрын

Agreed.

@DavoZed

Ай бұрын

Nonsense

Ай бұрын

TRES JUSTE MERCI Béba MNG

always listening to this

Great song

The pictures were a lot of fun to see even if they didn't match the "theme" of the song. Took a lot of work and creativity. Thanks so much for doing this! 😆

A young kid when this was a hit on the radio back in the day. AM only, no FM yet.lol

please, don't let this song stop. there is no equal.

5:27 absolute classic ,the arrangement of the music ,a great voice , one of a kind , simply awesome , love it ❤❤❤❤

Ай бұрын

❤💛💙❤‍🩹

Jimmy Webb also wrote another musical masterpiece, ‘Wichita Lineman’. His songs have such a timeless quality and appeal that move the soul to depths that very few songwriters can reach.

I experienced this song. Only then you can understand it.

@fredbearison8865

9 ай бұрын

Right on!

@fredbearison8865

7 ай бұрын

It has redeeming social significance .only if you are a baby boomer. Not in today's world

@vivianamolinafigueroa5939

7 ай бұрын

Este tema produce una inmensa sensación de nostalgia ❤

@aldocancino7705

Ай бұрын

Profunda nostalgia... así es!

Flip the 45 and enjoy Didn't We? Beautiful too

we used to play this in the 70’s even watched his movie a man called horse!

Brought this song when l was 15 played it and played it

I loved this mysterious song when I was young but as experienced love and life I realized I lived it.

To fully understand the idioms on this song you must understand the early 1970s idioms. What is a striped pair of pants? A cotton dress the flows like waves. MacArthur park is a real place, it had some tables by the trees where people played chess. AI doesn't get it.

I remember this on AM radio back in the day, such a beautiful song.

great job, glad you are aware of LLM and doing these things man, respect

Clássico inesquecível!!!! Ganhou uma versão da divina e saudosa Donna Summer no final dos anos 70.

AI is called "Artificial" for a reason. Thinks "MacArthur Park" is a song about baking cakes. Just goes to show computers can be as ignorant as their programmers.

@Gumshrud1

9 ай бұрын

that right, currently computers can't seem to be able to do abstract emotional reasoning. But they can count every quark and boson in the known universe. A few years back the city drained and removed a foot+ of sludge from the bottom of MacArthur Park reservoir, it is probably much cleaner now.

@cynthiamadrid1430

9 ай бұрын

@@Gumshrud1 See

My MacArthur Park: First love 1968 Camp Hill Pa.

Perfect. Exactly what I've been seeing in my head all these years.

Jimmy Webb might be be the greatest song writer of all time.

@fmk353

5 ай бұрын

He may not be the absolute best, but he's a very short list of the best.

Thank you....

Pretty cool. The AI has some wild imagination but I supposed it's only envisioning just what each line means to it. This song is about the songwriter breaking up with his girlfriend and he's describing the images he's seeing as he walks through MacArthur Park in LA after the breakup.

Ай бұрын

😪

one of the first long hits of jimmy webb

Awesome lyrics❤

It's nearly impossible to define the brilliance of Jimmy Webb. His talent doesn't seem to have a ceiling.

Love this!

Inolvidable

AI has no soul and could never understand.

Brilliant!! Perfect piece of music for AI imagery.

This is hilarious, like what might be created by a supersmart, ridiculously talented four-year-old. I'd like to see the video created by an AI that had the original lyrics along with an explanation of the symbolism.

I AGREE SO GOOD

Me hace recordar mi primaria 😃

Geniales divino

4:50 "The great break"

The old men are playing CHESS.

❤😊

Literal interpretations of symbolic lyrics are ridiculously hokey.

DEPUIS BIENTOT 55 ANS CETTE SUPERBE CHANSON ET SON UNIQUE INTERPRETRE ME HANTENT PLEASE QUI PEUT M.AIDER POUR LE TRANSLATE MERCI Béba

"Old men playing checkers...." -- shows chess. :)

I am more familiar with the Donna Summers version. I still don't know what this song is about. Is it about an acid trip or some other drug experience? Does anyone know?

@billpolakis7524

9 ай бұрын

It’s about lost love. This is the original version that became the number 2 song of 1968. Donna Summer’s 1978 disco version was the remake

@stephencouldwell9874

9 ай бұрын

It was a song about the love of Jimmy Webb's life marrying another man, and he was watching the ceremony in a shed in McArthur Park. There was a cake but it started raining and as he watched through the window it gave the impression that the cake was melting. What's not to understand if you research 🙂

@valentinr.dominguez2892

9 ай бұрын

@stephencouldwell9874 "What is not to understand..."? On its surface, some of the lyrics are not understandable. It didn't occur to me to research because some writers intentionally leave their work cryptic, and I thought that was the case here. I research all the time, but didn't consider to do so for the reason I provided above. It is a shame that you felt compelled to include that last sentence. Otherwise, it would have been a nice gesture.

@alankohn5577

6 ай бұрын

Feelings aren't researched, they're experienced

@robertandrew5768

4 ай бұрын

​@@stephencouldwell9874 Great comment, thank god someone understands the lyrics at last.

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😊

Jimmy Web wrote this, Brainiacs

Always a great but, confusing song.

Such profound lyrics. After all these years I still don’t get how this became such a standard. The music I have to agree is wonderful. Perhaps that’s the thing. Words are nothing. It’s about the music. Harris such a great actor. In Camelot, Murphy’s war, A Man for All Seasons, to his swan song in the Harry Potter series.

I love this recording. This video is idiotic.

🔵THEY COULD'VE USE A BETTER VIDEO WITH THIS SUPERB SONG INSTEAD OF THE AI WOKE VIDEO.🔴

The song is beautiful, the visuals are terrible.

Why is there a duck continuously quacking in this version and every other version that I listen to. So bloody annoying I have to turn it off.

where in the lyrics does it say anything about big boobs?

@2painful2watch

9 ай бұрын

Did someone say big boobs? Where? Where?

Great... But nonsense rhymes! Like American Pie, Bohemian Rhapsody, people looking for deep meanings...None!!! The artists will admit as much themselves!

@Gumshrud1

9 ай бұрын

also whiter shade of pale.

@iolitelight

9 ай бұрын

The man who wrote this song has said it's about a break up and his memories of spending time in MacArthur Park with his ex. The cake is a metaphor for a something beautiful being ruined. Not a great metaphor but this song is not random.

@teresadelacanal1065

9 ай бұрын

Makes sense to me, that's enough.

yeah AI botched it

Well whatever yawns , where’s my coffee!?

Stick to your day job! 😂🤔

.....Who Knew "AI" Is...Politically Correct.....Hmm...So Much for Imagination !