Remember MacArthur Park?

MacArther Park. Anyone remember the song? I heard it yesterday while
driving home. I did't have a clue what it meant when it was popular
years ago and after hearing it again I still don' t have a clue. Has
anyone here ever figured it out? Lee

Florida...

No, never did, and its a relief to find out nobody else did either.

I did relate when we figured out after the third hearing that the
woman was wailing about a cake in the rain. Her agitation made a
certain kind of sense to the lifelong cooks among us. I really felt her

davesvideo...

Woman? I had never heard the song "sung" by anyone but Richard Harris.
He was an actor rather than a singer and the song was more or less
spoken to music.

Florida...

Heh. The song I'm thinking of was sung, then wailed, then hollered
by a very pretty American mulatto named Donna Summer, who was married
to a German and I believe lived in Urp. Whatever it isI'm remembering,
it was quite funny.
Could be a differnt song and just a bit of senior memory, tho. Too
lazy to go look it up right now, it's a perfect summer day here. A
lovely soft breeze, the garden sparkling in the sunlight, temp 84.

pain toward the end of the song when she shrieked
"And I'll NEVER find that recipe AGAAAAAAIN!"
The song is fun in its own weird way but I think our favorite
offended-cook sequence was in Steven Segal's film "Under Siege", where
Segal's character is both a navy seal and a bona-fide cook. When the
truculent bad guy spits into Segal's recipe you just know the bad guy
is in big trouble. Have to go see if we have a copy of it; these great
moments in art never fail to satisfy. :)

davesvideo...

Don't leave the cake out in the rain, or the sweet cream icing will be
dripping down. Makes perfect sense to me.