Seriously, "MacArthur's Park" is musical genius, especially Donna Summer's version of it

[LynneSin]

I mean I defy you to find a great quality dance song with song by someone with an amazing voice with the most daffy lyrics ever.

You can't so just post this reply - "Yes LynneSin you are absolfuckingly right!"

[KamaAina]

1. Yes LynneSin you are absolfuckingly right!

:sarcasm:

[taterguy]

2. Yes LynneSin you are absolfuckingly right

But for quality dance music and goofiness you really can't beat Southern Culture on the Skids

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAm0YQMEcEs

[marmar]

3. You mean someone didn't really leave the cake out in the rain?

nt

[av8rdave]

4. I could do without the Donna Summer version, but...

Maynard Ferguson's version (particularly live) was incredible.

[BlueJazz]

5. Amen!!

[May Hamm]

6. "Yes LynneSin you are absolfuckingly right!"

Except - In Dave Berry's "Book of Bad Songs" he cited a reader poll naming "MacArthur's Park" the worst, most annoying song of all time and specifically mentioned the version by Donna Summer.

Just saying...

What an absolutely WILD coincidence. I bought Dave Berry's "Book of Bad Songs" Yesterday! No lie. Bought it in a second hand store. Read it last evening. Otherwise I would have never known this obscure factoid.

[WinkyDink]

7. I have had the pleasure of thrice hearing the queen sing this.

[martymar64]

8. It's just a cake For heaven sake!

[LynneSin]

11. But the recipe was thrown away

To think no one ever had a chance to have a bite of this amazing green icing cake and they never will

:cry:

[Yavin4]

12. And She'll Never Have That Recipe Again

Oh no.

[stuntcat]

9. Yes LynneSin you are absolfuckingly right!!

LOVE it!! :headbang: :headbang: :headbang:

[elleng]

10. As in

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaZim6ybvdA ???

[Tuesday Afternoon]

13. sorry, Lynne. the lyrics are not daffy, they are metaphorical

:D

[LynneSin]

15. Ok then I'll bite

explain the metaphor to the rest of us here at DU

:rofl:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

16. but, but, its true --

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacArthur_Park_(song)

The lyrics, which include the lines "Someone left the cake out in the rain/I don't think that I can take it/'Cause it took so long to bake it/And I'll never have that recipe again", are symbolic and metaphorical. The song begins as a poem about love, then moves into a lover's lament.<4> When asked by interviewer Terry Gross what was going through his mind when he wrote the lyrics, Webb replied that the lyrics were meant to be symbolic, and they referred to the end of a love affair.

:hi:

I love the Richard Harris original version

[bikebloke]

14. Richard Harris

For some reason, I'm partial to the Richard Harris version.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsNGd5MVOQE

[Frank Cannon]

17. Thank you so much for posting that.

I saw that sketch when it first aired, and I've never forgotten it. I think about it whenever I hear that song on the radio.

God, I miss SCTV.

[eppur_se_muova]

21. I favor Maynard Ferguson's version from the "Live at Jimmy's" album ...

MF, the one and only real-life superhero. RIP.:(

[Bake]

18. Seriously, no.

In fact, absofuckinglutely no.

Bake

[MrScorpio]

19. Wait a sec, "MacArthur Park" worship is MY job in the Lounge

However, I am generous enough to share responsibility.

[NNadir]

20. Only Waylon Jennings version counts...

...if only for the steel guitar.

If I had my life to live over again, I'd play steel guitar rather than do well, anything else.