[yarddog]

I once knew a girl, sort of cute, whose favorite song was “McArthur Park”. I never could understand it. She was just a bit of a mental case tho.

This had to be the Summer of 1971. Not sure when the song was popular.

[central_va]

FYI: I think I remember hearing McArthurs Park is THE hardest Rock n Roll song to sing in key.

[BBell]

I looked it up on wiki to figure the song out. It's about a lost love. These are Jimmy Webb's words:

"Everything in the song was visible. There's nothing in it that's fabricated. The old men playing checkers by the trees, the cake that was left out in the rain, all of the things that are talked about in the song are things I actually saw. And so it's a kind of musical collage of this whole love affair that kind of went down in MacArthur Park. ... Back then, I was kind of like an emotional machine, like whatever was going on inside me would bubble out of the piano and onto paper."

[Fiji Hill]

I once knew a girl, sort of cute, whose favorite song was “McArthur Park”. I never could understand it.

I was a fan of "MacArthur Park" when the version by Richard Harris was a hit in the spring of 1968. I liked the song because it's about Los Angeles and because Gen. Douglas MacArthur, the park's namesake, was, and still is, one of my heroes.