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Donna Summer’s Hit “MacArthur Park” Was First Recorded by Richard Harris, the Original Dumbledore
Donna Summer released her hit song "MacArthur Park" in 1978, but the original recording came from Richard Harris.
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Jimmy Webb’s ‘MacArthur Park’ is a musical monster that keeps rising from the dead
Like a creature from a pop song horror movie, “MacArthur Park,” the epic seven-minute ... “I hauled it out, put it on top of the piano and started playing the intro—it was very classical ...
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A Walk Through ‘MacArthur Park’: Jimmy Webb Tells the History of an Odd Pop Classic That Found New Life as the Musical Climax of ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’
The seven-minute 1968 classic was recorded by everyone from Richard Harris to Donna Summer to 'Weird Al' on the way to being immortalized as Beetlejuice's would-be wedding song. Webb got on the ...
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Jimmy Webb explains why someone left the cake out in the rain in ‘MacArthur Park’
“MacArthur Park” — that oft-derided 1960s song about ... Growing up in Oklahoma, piano-playing Webb targeted Glen Campbell as the voice he wanted to write for after hearing, at age 14 ...
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Jimmy Webb’s ‘MacArthur Park’ is a musical monster that keeps rising from the dead
He hit that piano so hard that it sounded like a shot went off and he said, ‘I’ll have that, Jimmy Webb. And I, Richard Harris, will make a hit out of that song, and I’ll be a pop star.’” “MacArthur ...
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A Walk Through ‘MacArthur Park’: Jimmy Webb Tells the History of an Odd Pop Classic That Found New Life as the Musical Climax of ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’
I made a record with George Martin, and George Martin told me that after the Beatles heard “MacArthur Park,” they went back into the studio and put the long fade on “Hey Jude.” [The ...