MCARTHUR PARK
DONNA SUMMER
SONGWRITER: JIMMY WEBB
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: ON THE RADIO: GREATEST HITS VOLUME I & II
LABEL: DUNHILL RECORDS
GENRE: BAROQUE POP
YEAR: 1968
LaDonna
Adrian Gaines (December 31, 1948 – May 17, 2012), widely known by her stage
name based on her married name Donna Summer, was an American singer, songwriter
and actress. She gained prominence during the disco era of the late 1970s and became known as the "Queen
of Disco", while her music gained a global
following.
While
influenced by the counterculture
of the 1960s, Summer became the lead singer
of a psychedelic rock band named Crow and moved to New York City. Joining a touring
version of the musical Hair,
she left New York and spent several years living, acting and singing in Europe,
where she met music producers Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte in Munich, where they recorded influential disco hits such as "Love to Love
You Baby" and "I Feel Love",
marking her breakthrough into an international career. Summer returned to the United
States in 1975, and other hits such as "Last Dance", "MacArthur Park", "Heaven Knows", "Hot Stuff", "Bad Girls", "Dim All the Lights", "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)"
(duet with Barbra Streisand) and "On the Radio"
followed.
Summer
earned a total of 42 hit singles on the US Billboard Hot 100 in her
lifetime, with 14 of those reaching the top-ten. She claimed a top 40 hit every
year between 1975 and 1984, and from her first top-ten hit in 1976, to the end
of 1982, she had 12 top-ten hits (10 were top-five hits), more than any other
act during that time period. She returned to the Hot 100's top-five in 1983,
and claimed her final top-ten hit in 1989 with "This Time I Know It's for Real".
She was the first artist to have three consecutive
double albums reach number one on the US Billboard 200 chart and charted four number-one singles in the US within a
12-month period. She also charted two number-one singles on the R&B
Singles chart in the US and a number-one
single in the United Kingdom. Her most recent Hot 100 hit came in 1999 with
"I Will Go with You (Con Te Partiro)". While her fortunes on the Hot
100 waned through those decades, Summer remained a force on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart over her entire career.
Summer
died on May 17, 2012, from lung cancer,
at her home in Naples, Florida. She
sold over 100 million records worldwide, making her one of the best-selling
music artists of all time. She won five Grammy Awards. In her
obituary in The Times, she was
described as the "undisputed queen of the Seventies disco boom" who
reached the status of "one of the world's leading female singers." Giorgio Moroder described Summer's work with them on the song "I Feel
Love" as "really the start of electronic
dance" music. In 2013, Summer was inducted
into the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame. In December 2016, Billboard ranked her at No. 6 on its list of the Greatest of All Time Top
Dance Club Artists .
"MacArthur
Park" is a song written and composed by Jimmy Webb.
Richard Harris was the first to record it 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 1969 Grammy-winning
version by country music singer Waylon Jennings and a number one Billboard Hot 100 disco arrangement by Donna Summer in 1978.
In 1967,
producer Bones Howe had
asked Webb to create a pop song with classical elements, different movements
and changing time signatures. Webb delivered "MacArthur Park" to Howe with
"everything he wanted", but Howe did not care for the ambitious
arrangement or unorthodox lyrics and the song was rejected by the group The
Association, for whom it was originally intended.
Spring
was never waiting for us, dear
It ran one step ahead
As we followed in the dance
Between the parted pages and were pressed
In love's hot, fevered iron
Like a striped pair of pants
Macarthur's
park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
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
Oh, no!
I
recall the yellow cotton dress
Foaming like a wave
On the ground beneath your knees
The birds, like tender babies in your hands
And the old men playing chinese checkers by the trees
Macarthur's
park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
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
Oh, no!
There
will be another song for me
For I will sing it
There will be another dream for me
Someone will bring it
I will drink the wine while it is warm
And never let you catch me looking at the Sun
And after all the loves of my life
After all the loves of my life
You'll still be the one
I will
take my life into my hands and I will use it
I will win the worship in their eyes and I will lose
it
I will have the things that I desire
And my passion flow like rivers through the sky
And after all the loves of my life
After all the loves of my life
I'll be thinking of you
And wondering why
Macarthur's
park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
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
Oh, no!
Oh, no!
No, no!
Oh no!
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