MacArthur Park ( song ) - wikipedia MacArthur Park ( song ) `` MacArthur Park '' Artwork for US single release, also used for German release Single by Richard Harris from the album A Tramp Shining B - side `` Did n't We ? '' Released April 1968 Format 7 '' Recorded December 21, 1967 -- January 6, 1968 Genre Baroque pop, orchestral pop Length 7 : 21 Label Dunhill Records Songwriter ( s ) Jimmy Webb Producer ( s ) Jimmy Webb Richard Harris singles chronology `` Here in My Heart ( Theme from This Sporting Life ) '' ( 1963 ) `` MacArthur Park '' ( 1968 ) `` The Yard Went on Forever '' ( 1968 ) `` Here in My Heart ( Theme from This Sporting Life ) '' ( 1963 ) `` MacArthur Park '' ( 1968 ) `` The Yard Went on Forever '' ( 1968 ) `` MacArthur Park '' is a song written and composed by Jimmy Webb. Richard Harris was the first to record the song in 1968 : his version peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and number four on the UK Singles Chart. `` MacArthur Park '' was subsequently covered by numerous artists, including a hit version in 1969 by country music singer Waylon Jennings. Among the best - known covers is Donna Summer 's disco arrangement from 1978 which topped the Billboard Hot 100. `` MacArthur Park '' has been called the worst song ever written. Its flowery lyrics and metaphors ( notoriously likening lost love to a cake left out in the rain ) have been described as `` bloated '' and `` loopy. '' Webb commented : `` Those lyrics were all very real to me : there was nothing psychedelic about it to me. The cake, it was an available object. It was what I saw in the park at the birthday parties. '' Contents 1 Jimmy Webb 1.1 Composition 2 Richard Harris version 2.1 Background and release 2.2 Legacy 3 Chart history 3.1 Weekly charts 3.2 Year - end charts 4 Donna Summer version 4.1 Background and release 4.2 Chart performance 4.2. 1 Weekly charts 4.2. 2 Year - end charts 5 Other versions 6 See also 7 References 8 External links Jimmy Webb Composition `` MacArthur Park '' was written and composed by Jimmy Webb in the summer and fall of 1967 as part of an intended cantata. Webb initially brought the entire cantata to The Association, but the group rejected it. The inspiration for the song was his relationship and breakup with Susie Horton, who later married Robert Ronstadt, a cousin of singer Linda Ronstadt. MacArthur Park, in Los Angeles, was where the two occasionally met for lunch and spent their most enjoyable times together. At that time ( the middle of 1965 ), Horton worked for a life insurance company whose offices were located just across the street from the park. When asked by interviewer Terry Gross what was going through his mind when he wrote the lyric, Webb replied that it was meant to be symbolic and referred to the end of a love affair. In an interview with Newsday in October 2014, Webb explained : 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. Webb and Horton remained friends, even after her marriage to another man. The breakup was also the primary influence for `` By the Time I Get to Phoenix, '' another song written and composed by Webb. After his relationship breakup, Webb stayed for a while at the residence of Buddy Greco, upon whose piano the piece was composed and originally dedicated. Greco closed all his shows with this number for forty years. The idea to write and compose a classically structured song with several movements that could be played on the radio came from a challenge by music producer Bones Howe, who produced recordings for The Association. The song begins as a poem about love, then moves into a lover 's lament. The song consists of four sections or movements : A mid-tempo introduction and opening section, called `` In the Park '' in the original session notes, is built around piano and harpsichord, with horns and orchestra added. This arrangement accompanies the song 's main verses and choruses. A slow tempo and quiet section follows, called `` After the Loves of My Life. '' An up - tempo instrumental section, called `` Allegro, '' is led by drums and percussion, punctuated by horn riffs, and builds to an orchestral climax. A mid-tempo reprise of the first section, concludes with the final choruses and climax. Richard Harris version Background and release `` MacArthur Park '' was first recorded by Richard Harris, after he met the composer at a fundraiser in East Los Angeles, California in late 1967. Webb had been invited to provide the musical backdrop at the piano. Out of the blue, Harris, who had just starred in Camelot, and had performed several musical numbers in the film, suggested to Webb that he wanted to release a record. At first, Webb did not take Harris seriously, but later he received a telegram from Harris, requesting that Webb `` come to London and make a record. '' Webb flew to London and played Harris a number of songs for the project, but none seemed to fit for Harris 's pop music debut. The last song that Webb played for Harris was `` MacArthur Park, '' originally written for The Association, whose members had promptly rejected it because of its length, complex structure, and unorthodox lyrics. Harris selected `` MacArthur Park '' for his pop music debut. The track was recorded on December 21, 1967, at Armin Steiner 's Sound Recorders in Hollywood. String, woodwind, and brass overdubs were recorded over two sessions on December 29 and 30. The musicians in the original studio recording included members of the famous `` Wrecking Crew '' of Los Angeles - based studio musicians who played on many of the hit records of the 1960s and 1970s. Personnel used included Hal Blaine on drums, Larry Knechtel on keyboards, Joe Osborn on bass guitar, and Tommy Tedesco and Mike Deasy on guitars, along with Webb himself on harpsichord. The song was included on Harris 's album A Tramp Shining in 1968 and selected for release as a single, an unusual choice, given the song 's length and complex structure. It was released in April 1968 and was played by 77 WABC on Tuesday April 9, 1968. It made its way onto the Hot 100 at number 79 on May 11, 1968, peaking at number 2 on June 22, 1968. It peaked at number 10 on Billboard 's Easy Listening survey and was number 8 on WABC 's overall 1968 chart. It topped the music charts in Europe and Australia and also won the 1969 Grammy Award for Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist ( s ). Legacy In 1992, Miami Herald journalist Dave Barry conducted a poll among his readers who selected Harris ' recording as the worst song of all time, both in terms of `` Worst Lyrics '' and `` Worst Overall Song ''. Barry commented : `` ( I ) t 's hard to argue with survey respondents who chose it as the worst. '' Chart history Weekly charts Chart ( 1968 ) Peak position Australia Canada Top Singles ( RPM ) Ireland ( IRMA ) 9 UK US Billboard Hot 100 US Billboard Easy Listening 10 Year - end charts Chart ( 1968 ) Rank Australia 9 Canada 33 UK 60 US Billboard Hot 100 51 Donna Summer version `` MacArthur Park '' Artwork for the Spain single release, also used for the German release under different printing Single by Donna Summer from the album Live and More B - side `` Once Upon a Time '' ( Live ) ( U.S. ) `` Last Dance '' ( Live ) ( France ) `` MacArthur Park '' ( Part 2 ) ( Japan ) `` One of a Kind '' ( 12 `` ) `` Heaven Knows ( 12 '' ) `` MacArthur Park Suite '' ( 12 `` ) Released September 24, 1978 Format 7 '' vinyl single 12 '' vinyl single Recorded 1978 Genre Disco Length 8 : 27 ( album version ) 3 : 59 ( single version ) Label Casablanca Songwriter ( s ) Jimmy Webb Producer ( s ) Giorgio Moroder Pete Bellotte Donna Summer singles chronology `` Je t'aime... moi non plus '' ( 1978 ) `` MacArthur Park '' ( 1978 ) `` Heaven Knows '' ( 1978 ) `` Je t'aime... moi non plus '' ( 1978 ) `` MacArthur Park '' ( 1978 ) `` Heaven Knows '' ( 1978 ) Background and release In September 1978, American singer Donna Summer released a multi-million selling vinyl single disco version of `` MacArthur Park '' : number one on the American pop music sales charts for three weeks, the track earned Summer her first nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. Summer was also nominated for Favorite Pop / Rock Female at the American Music Awards where her album Live and More took the award for Favorite Disco Album. Producer Giorgio Moroder would recall that he and his collaborator Pete Bellotte had been interested in the concept of either remixing a track - as yet undecided on - which had been a hit in the 1960s or else remaking a 1960s hit as a dance track : Moroder - `` I remember that I was driving in... on the Hollywood Freeway, and I heard the original song ( i.e. `` MacArthur Park '' by Richard Harris ) on the radio. I thought : ' That 's it -- that 's the song we 've been looking for almost a year. ' '' Moroder asked Neil Bogart, president of Casablanca Records, to provide him with a copy of the Richard Harris version of `` MacArthur Park '' to serve as basis for Moroder 's envisioned discofied reinvention : Bogart obliged with an 8 - track tape containing Harris ' version, which Moroder had to specially buy an 8 - track player to hear. Moroder readily identified `` MacArthur Park '' as ( quote ) `` a great song for Donna -- with all those high notes, it was perfect ( for her )... First, I ( located ) a key that she could sing really high, but still with a big voice -- that took an hour or two. I played a little piano and she sang it with my accompaniment. We found a key and we had Greg Mathieson do the arrangement -- and then I did something very special '' - that `` something very special '' being Moroder 's recording of his own voice to form a choir heard behind Summer on the song 's chorus : `` I recorded about 20 seconds of all the notes, which I was able to sing on a 24 - track. I made a loop of those notes, and put that loop in the ( Solid State Logic ) desk. I could form eight chords by having C-E-G right on the group. I played the chords by moving the track according to the chord that I needed. '' Of basing a discofied arrangement on the template for Webb 's arrangement on the Harris version Moroder would recall : `` To be honest, it was a very difficult song to ( arrange ), especially the brass, but we had the best musicians in town. '' Summer 's recording of `` MacArthur Park '', included as part of the `` MacArthur Park Suite '' on her double album Live and More, was eight minutes and forty seconds long. The shorter seven - inch vinyl single version - which omits the song 's balladic second movement - afforded Summer her first # 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, also becoming the last of seven hit versions of compositions by Jimmy Webb to reach the Top Ten on the Hot 100, with `` MacArthur Park '' by Donna Summer being the only recording of a Webb composition to top the Hot 100. The nearly 18 - minute musical medley `` MacArthur Park Suite '' incorporated the original songs `` One of a Kind '' and `` Heaven Knows '', the latter being issued as the second single off Live and More. This medley was also sold as a 12 - inch ( 30 cm ) vinyl recording, and it stayed at number one on Billboard 's Hot Dance Club Songs chart for five weeks in 1978. The versions of this medley in Live and More and in the 12 - inch recording are notably different in the presentation of the two original songs. In the 12 - inch version, `` Heaven Knows '' was extended to incorporate the instrumental string introduction and the bridge horn solo of the single version for radio stations, but left out the second verse and `` One of a Kind '' was trimmed of a large part of the instrumental break but included the second verse. Lyrically, Summer 's rendition is also curious, in that it adds the word, `` Chinese, '' to clarify what type of checkers were being played. `` MacArthur Park Suite '' was not included on the compact disc version of Live and More because of early CD limitations ; however, the album version is available on 1987 's The Dance Collection : A Compilation of Twelve Inch Singles. The 12 '' Special One - Sided Disco DJ Single has been digitally remastered and included on the Bad Girls digipak double CD release. In 2012, `` Live and More '' was remastered in Japan and included the original Lp version of the `` MacArthur Park Suite ''. In 2013, the song was remixed by Laidback Luke for the Donna Summer remix album Love To Love You Donna ( it was also remixed by Ralphi Rosario and Frank Lamboy ), which was released to dance clubs all over America, having a successful peaking at No. 1, giving Summer her first posthumous No. 1 and her twentieth No. 1 overall. Chart performance Weekly charts Chart ( 1978 - 79 ) Peak position Canada Top Singles ( RPM ) Canada Adult Contemporary ( RPM ) Canada Dance / Urban ( RPM ) Ireland ( IRMA ) 7 Netherlands ( Single Top 100 ) 8 Netherlands ( Dutch Top 40 ) 9 Spain Singles ( Promusicae ) 13 Spain Radio ( Los 40 ) 6 US Billboard Hot 100 US Adult Contemporary ( Billboard ) 24 U.S. Billboard Hot Disco Singles U.S. Cash Box Top 100 Chart ( 2013 ) Peak position U.S. Billboard Dance Club Songs US Billboard Hot 100 US Hot Dance / Electronic Songs ( Billboard ) 20 Year - end charts Chart ( 1978 ) Rank Australia 96 Canada ( RPM ) Top Singles 33 US Cash Box 27 Other versions A cover version of `` MacArthur Park '' was recorded by country music singer Waylon Jennings on his 1969 album Country - Folk, which included the family group The Kimberlys. This version charted at number 23 on Hot Country Songs and number 93 on the Billboard Hot 100, making its chart debut on August 23, 1969. It also won both acts the 1969 Grammy Award for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. The Four Tops version ( 1971 ) reached # 38 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and # 37 in Canada. The Andy Williams version ( 1972 ) `` bubbled under '' the Hot 100 for four weeks that began in the August 5, 1972, issue and reached number 102. It also debuted on the Easy Listening chart in that same issue and made it to number 26 there over the course of five weeks. See also List of number - one dance singles of 2013 ( U.S. ) Jurassic Park ( song ) References ^ Jump up to : Boucher, Geoff. `` ' MacArthur Park ' Jimmy Webb 1968 '' Los Angeles Times, June 10, 2007, accessed June 1, 2015 Jump up ^ Queenan, Joe ( August 23, 2007 ). `` Recipe for disaster ''. The Guardian. Guardian Media Group. Retrieved June 12, 2016. Jump up ^ Bronson, Fred ( 1988 ). The Billboard Book of Number One Hits. New York : Billboard. ^ Jump up to : Fallick, Alan H. 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External links Cite from Fred Bronson, The Billboard Book of Number One Hits, Billboard, 1988 Link to The Lou Gordon Home Page Preceded by `` You Needed Me '' by Anne Murray Billboard Hot 100 number one single ( Donna Summer version ) November 11, 1978 ( 3 weeks ) Succeeded by `` You Do n't Bring Me Flowers '' by Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond Preceded by Instant Replay by Dan Hartman ( all cuts ) Billboard Hot Dance Club Play number - one single ( Donna Summer version ) October 21, 1978 -- November 18, 1978 Succeeded by `` Le Freak '' / `` I Want Your Love '' / `` Chic Cheer '' by Chic Richard Harris Studio albums A Tramp Shining The Yard Went On Forever Singles `` MacArthur Park '' `` The Yard Went on Forever '' `` Did n't We ? '' `` My Boy '' Related Filmography Elizabeth Rees - Williams ( first wife ) Damian Harris ( son ) Jared Harris ( son ) Jamie Harris ( son ) Ann Turkel ( second wife ) Annabelle Wallis ( niece ) Jimmy Webb Original albums Jim Webb Sings Jim Webb ( 1968 ) Words and Music ( 1970 ) And So : On ( 1971 ) Letters ( 1972 ) Land 's End ( 1974 ) El Mirage ( 1977 ) Angel Heart ( 1982 ) Suspending Disbelief ( 1993 ) Ten Easy Pieces ( 1996 ) Twilight of the Renegades ( 2005 ) Live and at Large ( 2007 ) Just Across the River ( 2010 ) Still Within the Sound of My Voice ( 2013 ) Collaborative albums Up, Up, and Away ( 1966 ) The Magic Garden ( 1967 ) Rewind ( 1967 ) A Tramp Shining ( 1968 ) The Yard Went On Forever ( 1968 ) Sunshower ( 1969 ) The Supremes Produced and Arranged by Jimmy Webb ( 1972 ) Reunion : The Songs of Jimmy Webb ( 1974 ) Earthbound ( 1975 ) Live at the Royal Festival Hall ( 1977 ) Watermark ( 1977 ) Breakwater Cat ( 1980 ) The Last Unicorn ( 1983 ) The Animals ' Christmas ( 1986 ) Light Years ( 1988 ) Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind ( 1989 ) Only One Life : The Songs of Jimmy Webb ( 2003 ) This Kind of Love ( 2008 ) Cottonwood Farm ( 2009 ) Glen Campbell and Jimmy Webb : In Session ( 2012 ) Compilation albums Tribute to Burt Bacharach and Jim Webb ( 1972 ) And Someone Left the Cake Out in the Rain... 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'' `` Promise Me, Love '' `` The Hawaiian Wedding Song '' `` Lonely Street '' `` The Village of St. Bernadette '' `` Danny Boy '' `` Fly by Night '' `` Stranger on the Shore '' `` Do n't You Believe It '' `` Twilight Time '' `` Ca n't Get Used to Losing You '' `` Days of Wine and Roses '' `` Hopeless '' `` A Fool Never Learns '' `` Charade '' `` Wrong for Each Other '' `` On the Street Where You Live '' `` Almost There '' `` Dear Heart '' ``... and Roses and Roses '' `` Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars ( Corcovado ) '' `` May Each Day '' `` You 're Gonna Hear from Me '' `` Bye Bye Blues '' `` How Can I Tell Her It 's Over '' `` In the Arms of Love '' `` Music to Watch Girls By '' `` Holly '' `` Ca n't Take My Eyes Off You '' `` Sweet Memories '' `` Battle Hymn of the Republic '' `` Happy Heart '' `` Live and Learn '' `` A Woman 's Way '' `` Ca n't Help Falling in Love '' `` One Day of Your Life '' `` It 's So Easy '' `` Home Lovin ' Man '' `` ( Where Do I Begin ? ) Love Story '' `` A Song for You '' `` You 've Got a Friend '' `` Speak Softly Love ( Love Theme from The Godfather ) '' `` MacArthur Park '' `` Solitaire '' `` Love 's Theme '' `` Another Lonely Song '' `` Cry Softly '' `` Sad Eyes '' `` The Other Side of Me '' `` Tell It Like It Is '' `` It 's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year '' B - Sides `` I 'm So Lonesome I Could Cry '' `` I Want to Be Wanted '' `` Summertime '' `` So Rare '' `` Emily '' `` Red Roses for a Blue Lady '' `` I 'll Remember You '' `` Something '' `` My Love '' `` They Long to Be Close to You '' `` I Love My Friend '' Related articles Discography The Williams Brothers Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MacArthur_Park_(song)&oldid=818653367 '' Categories : 1968 singles 1972 singles 1978 singles Songs written by Jimmy Webb Richard Harris songs Andy Williams songs Donna Summer songs Waylon Jennings songs Glen Campbell songs Billboard Dance Club Songs number - one singles Billboard Hot 100 number - one singles Number - one dance singles in Canada Song recordings produced by Giorgio Moroder Song recordings produced by Pete Bellotte RCA Records singles Disco songs Pop ballads Rock ballads Songs about Los Angeles Songs about California Four Tops songs Song recordings produced by Frank Wilson ( musician ) 1968 songs 1960s ballads Dunhill Records singles Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist ( s ) Casablanca Records singles RPM Adult Contemporary number - one singles RPM Top Singles number - one singles Hidden categories : Articles with hAudio microformats Singlechart usages for Canadatopsingles Singlechart called without artist Singlechart called without song Singlechart usages for Ireland2 Singlechart usages for Billboardhot100 Singlechart usages for Canadaadultcontemporary Singlechart usages for Canadadance Singlechart usages for Dutch100 Singlechart usages for Dutch40 Singlechart usages for Billboardadultcontemporary Singlechart usages for Billboarddanceelectronic All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from October 2017 Talk Contents About Wikipedia Nederlands Português Suomi Edit links This page was last edited on 4 January 2018, at 20 : 20. 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Question: who sang the original version of macarthur park
Answer: Richard Harris