Jimmy Webb was only 22 when he composed all the songs in that A Tramp Shinning album, made the arrangements and supervised the instruments recording in L.A. before sending the tapes to Richard Harris, who was in the U.K., to provide his vocals. That's comparable to Orson Welles creating his Citizen Kane masterpiece at age 25. Incredible !!!
@@nickwerner7983 Sorry but nonsense. Summer's version will have sold 10 copies for every copy that those people sold. Imagine claiming any knowledge of the music industry and quoting Yankovic as a source of anything. He's a clown, he's a comedian. His parodies are the stuff of junior high school skits, they're so awful. Her various versions have been selling since at least the late 70s and she will have sold tens of millions of copies, maybe 100 million.
@@MythsScamsLies Hey! Watch it, PAL!!! Weird Al is the best song parody guy in the world with a few original songs here and there (Captain Underpants Song)! You didn’t know that Richard Harris is the same guy who sang that song AND played Professor Albus Dumbledore in the first two Harry Potter movies! You’re just jealous that Donna Summer’s version is LESS recognizable that you got to hurt other people to make yourself feel better! EXPECTO BEGONEUS!!!
@@nickwerner7983 I did know that Richard Harris did both. And I do know, unlike yourself, that Yankovic is a COMEDIAN and his work is APPALLINGLY STUPID, except to teenage boys who never grew up. Like yourself. Donna Summer is dramatically better known than Yankovic, both inside and outside the music industry. She sold 130 million records in her career, putting her in the 1% of the 1% of the music industry. Yankovic has sold just 12 million records, based on 160 parody songs. That's just 75,000 records per song, on average. You need to stick to something you know, whatever that is. It's clearly not the music industry.
So that’s why it’s called MacArthur Park! I always wondered about that title. I have loved that song since I was in high school in 1968. It’s a fantastic song and the orchestra that played with him was excellent.. I wish I could’ve seen him seeing this live because it meant so much to me. And thanks Jimmy Webb for writing it.
Hi, It's a bit sadder than that, he was deeply in love with a girl and they would meet for lunch in McCarthur Park, when she dumped him he was heartbroken & found out later she was getting married to someone else, IN McCarthur Park. Still in love with her, he went to the wedding &watched from a distance as she tied the knot 😢
This has been probably my most favorite version of McArthur's Park, and the original version as well as far as I know. Actors were always mad that they could not make a hit song while musicians could make hit movies. Richard Harris broke that mold with this song. The other version I like is by Donna Summer, I remember it being released while I was in High School. Recently I found out that Jimmy Webb the songs writer wrote about things he had seen while with his girlfriend in McArthur's Park, yes, it is a real place located in Los Angeles, California.
The pictures were a lot of fun to see even if they didn't match the "theme" of the song. Took a lot of work and creativity. Thanks so much for doing this! 😆
These were AI images probably produced in seconds with no human effort. Shows both the amazing ability yet ignorance of the current state of artificial intelligence
Jimmy Webb also wrote another musical masterpiece, ‘Wichita Lineman’. His songs have such a timeless quality and appeal that move the soul to depths that very few songwriters can reach.
I heard the song in 1968, my last year of high school. It was very long and sad, and I could feel his pain "And after all the loves of my life Oh, after all the loves of my life I'll be thinking of you And wondering why?" But I don't understand what these two lines mean "I will drink the wine while it is warm And never let you catch me looking at the sun" My friend said it was to accept it, take the medicine no matter what and move on; and never let Susan Horton (the woman in the song) catch him looking at her (as she was his sunshine). Would appreciate any other suggestion.
I always think it was a Donna summer original until i heard this version, now i can't remember when last i listened to Donna's version. While not taking credits from her i just love this one, it's self comforting in many ways, problems can't keep you down with this song. Thanks Richard and Donna.
AI is called "Artificial" for a reason. Thinks "MacArthur Park" is a song about baking cakes. Just goes to show computers can be as ignorant as their programmers.
that right, currently computers can't seem to be able to do abstract emotional reasoning. But they can count every quark and boson in the known universe. A few years back the city drained and removed a foot+ of sludge from the bottom of MacArthur Park reservoir, it is probably much cleaner now.
Absolutely brilliant song by Richard Harris, the best-ever version. The video confirms that we have nothing to fear from AI, I could have done better with Getty images.
To fully understand the idioms on this song you must understand the early 1970s idioms. What is a striped pair of pants? A cotton dress the flows like waves. MacArthur park is a real place, it had some tables by the trees where people played chess. AI doesn't get it.
Pretty cool. The AI has some wild imagination but I supposed it's only envisioning just what each line means to it. This song is about the songwriter breaking up with his girlfriend and he's describing the images he's seeing as he walks through MacArthur Park in LA after the breakup.
This is hilarious, like what might be created by a supersmart, ridiculously talented four-year-old. I'd like to see the video created by an AI that had the original lyrics along with an explanation of the symbolism.
After watching the movie, this song got stuck in my head so I looked it up and rejoiced in it. Had no idea Richard Harris the guy who played Dumbledore sang it
Thank you for sharing what AI could do by 'taking the lyrics of the song. However, did someone notice that this is like when Google Translate, translated literally and the meaning didn't make sense? It killed the romance of the song. and that's precisely what AI can't do: emotions :)
I am more familiar with the Donna Summers version. I still don't know what this song is about. Is it about an acid trip or some other drug experience? Does anyone know?
It was a song about the love of Jimmy Webb's life marrying another man, and he was watching the ceremony in a shed in McArthur Park. There was a cake but it started raining and as he watched through the window it gave the impression that the cake was melting. What's not to understand if you research 🙂
@stephencouldwell9874 "What is not to understand..."? On its surface, some of the lyrics are not understandable. It didn't occur to me to research because some writers intentionally leave their work cryptic, and I thought that was the case here. I research all the time, but didn't consider to do so for the reason I provided above. It is a shame that you felt compelled to include that last sentence. Otherwise, it would have been a nice gesture.
It's interesting how the AI interprets things like an autistic person.. very literally and without context (It didn't try to illustrate the meaning of the words together, but rather just showed stuff like striped pants or literally the metal of iron shaped into lovers, etc). Perhaps this rather says something more about what it WAS ASKED to do than its capacity. The only thing it got, "right," was the pictures of MacArthur Park after it rained (Ie, that was likely exactly what the author was talking about when he mentioned it, "was melting").
Such profound lyrics. After all these years I still don’t get how this became such a standard. The music I have to agree is wonderful. Perhaps that’s the thing. Words are nothing. It’s about the music. Harris such a great actor. In Camelot, Murphy’s war, A Man for All Seasons, to his swan song in the Harry Potter series.
Great... But nonsense rhymes! Like American Pie, Bohemian Rhapsody, people looking for deep meanings...None!!! The artists will admit as much themselves!
The man who wrote this song has said it's about a break up and his memories of spending time in MacArthur Park with his ex. The cake is a metaphor for a something beautiful being ruined. Not a great metaphor but this song is not random.
Jimmy Webb was only 22 when he composed all the songs in that A Tramp Shinning album, made the arrangements and supervised the instruments recording in L.A. before sending the tapes to Richard Harris, who was in the U.K., to provide his vocals. That's comparable to Orson Welles creating his Citizen Kane masterpiece at age 25. Incredible !!!
This version sung by Richard Harris is the best.
Donna Summer's various versions are dramatically better than this Harris one and her symphonic 17 minute version is a masterpiece. Sorry.
@@MythsScamsLiesWeird Al and Dumbledore’s versions combined BOTH top Donna Summer. NOT Sorry! Reese’s.
@@nickwerner7983 Sorry but nonsense. Summer's version will have sold 10 copies for every copy that those people sold. Imagine claiming any knowledge of the music industry and quoting Yankovic as a source of anything. He's a clown, he's a comedian. His parodies are the stuff of junior high school skits, they're so awful. Her various versions have been selling since at least the late 70s and she will have sold tens of millions of copies, maybe 100 million.
@@MythsScamsLies Hey! Watch it, PAL!!! Weird Al is the best song parody guy in the world with a few original songs here and there (Captain Underpants Song)! You didn’t know that Richard Harris is the same guy who sang that song AND played Professor Albus Dumbledore in the first two Harry Potter movies! You’re just jealous that Donna Summer’s version is LESS recognizable that you got to hurt other people to make yourself feel better! EXPECTO BEGONEUS!!!
@@nickwerner7983 I did know that Richard Harris did both. And I do know, unlike yourself, that Yankovic is a COMEDIAN and his work is APPALLINGLY STUPID, except to teenage boys who never grew up. Like yourself. Donna Summer is dramatically better known than Yankovic, both inside and outside the music industry. She sold 130 million records in her career, putting her in the 1% of the 1% of the music industry. Yankovic has sold just 12 million records, based on 160 parody songs. That's just 75,000 records per song, on average. You need to stick to something you know, whatever that is. It's clearly not the music industry.
Jimmy Webb wrote this song about a woman he was in love with, and would take her to MacArthur Park in L.A.
So that’s why it’s called MacArthur Park! I always wondered about that title. I have loved that song since I was in high school in 1968. It’s a fantastic song and the orchestra that played with him was excellent.. I wish I could’ve seen him seeing this live because it meant so much to me. And thanks Jimmy Webb for writing it.
Hi,
It's a bit sadder than that, he was deeply in love with a girl and they would meet for lunch in McCarthur Park, when she dumped him he was heartbroken & found out later she was getting married to someone else,
IN
McCarthur Park.
Still in love with her, he went to the wedding &watched from a distance as she tied the knot 😢
One of the best arrangements and songs of all-time.
This song belongs to Richard Harris!
No one else should be allowed to sing it.
Now its nice to share!
What about Jurassic Park by Weird Al?
Agreed.
Nonsense
TRES JUSTE MERCI Béba MNG
So wonderful - things don't have to make sense
Good thing. They don’t make sense
But It made sense to Jimmy Webb!
Lots of the things make sense if you think of them as "word pictures."
A young kid when this was a hit on the radio back in the day. AM only, no FM yet.lol
A sumptuous recipe for body mind and soul....
Well done. The best comment on this beautiful, haunting song I have ever heard. Many thanks .
This has been probably my most favorite version of McArthur's Park, and the original version as well as far as I know. Actors were always mad that they could not make a hit song while musicians could make hit movies. Richard Harris broke that mold with this song. The other version I like is by Donna Summer, I remember it being released while I was in High School. Recently I found out that Jimmy Webb the songs writer wrote about things he had seen while with his girlfriend in McArthur's Park, yes, it is a real place located in Los Angeles, California.
That's good another thing I did not know about this great song..
The pictures were a lot of fun to see even if they didn't match the "theme" of the song. Took a lot of work and creativity. Thanks so much for doing this! 😆
These were AI images probably produced in seconds with no human effort. Shows both the amazing ability yet ignorance of the current state of artificial intelligence
Jimmy Webb also wrote another musical masterpiece, ‘Wichita Lineman’. His songs have such a timeless quality and appeal that move the soul to depths that very few songwriters can reach.
I love that song too..W.Lineman..💞
Great song
always listening to this
I experienced this song. Only then you can understand it.
Right on!
It has redeeming social significance .only if you are a baby boomer. Not in today's world
Este tema produce una inmensa sensación de nostalgia ❤
Profunda nostalgia... así es!
5:27 absolute classic ,the arrangement of the music ,a great voice , one of a kind , simply awesome , love it ❤❤❤❤
❤💛💙❤🩹
I heard the song in 1968, my last year of high school. It was very long and sad, and I could feel his pain "And after all the loves of my life
Oh, after all the loves of my life
I'll be thinking of you
And wondering why?"
But I don't understand what these two lines mean "I will drink the wine while it is warm
And never let you catch me looking at the sun"
My friend said it was to accept it, take the medicine no matter what and move on; and never let Susan Horton (the woman in the song) catch him looking at her (as she was his sunshine). Would appreciate any other suggestion.
please, don't let this song stop. there is no equal.
Immortal song ❤️
we used to play this in the 70’s even watched his movie a man called horse!
Thx so much for taking the time adding these visuals. Well done i love it
Not much you could say except that it's a classic.
I always think it was a Donna summer original until i heard this version, now i can't remember when last i listened to Donna's version. While not taking credits from her i just love this one, it's self comforting in many ways, problems can't keep you down with this song. Thanks Richard and Donna.
Listen to It every day.
great job, glad you are aware of LLM and doing these things man, respect
Brought this song when l was 15 played it and played it
Who's here after Beetlejuice Beetlejuice?
Perfect. Exactly what I've been seeing in my head all these years.
Flip the 45 and enjoy Didn't We? Beautiful too
AI is called "Artificial" for a reason. Thinks "MacArthur Park" is a song about baking cakes. Just goes to show computers can be as ignorant as their programmers.
that right, currently computers can't seem to be able to do abstract emotional reasoning. But they can count every quark and boson in the known universe.
A few years back the city drained and removed a foot+ of sludge from the bottom of MacArthur Park reservoir, it is probably much cleaner now.
@@Gumshrud1 See
Absolutely brilliant song by Richard Harris, the best-ever version. The video confirms that we have nothing to fear from AI, I could have done better with Getty images.
To fully understand the idioms on this song you must understand the early 1970s idioms. What is a striped pair of pants? A cotton dress the flows like waves. MacArthur park is a real place, it had some tables by the trees where people played chess. AI doesn't get it.
Pretty cool. The AI has some wild imagination but I supposed it's only envisioning just what each line means to it. This song is about the songwriter breaking up with his girlfriend and he's describing the images he's seeing as he walks through MacArthur Park in LA after the breakup.
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Clássico inesquecível!!!! Ganhou uma versão da divina e saudosa Donna Summer no final dos anos 70.
I remember this on AM radio back in the day, such a beautiful song.
Jimmy Webb might be be the greatest song writer of all time.
He may not be the absolute best, but he's a very short list of the best.
No...Brian wilson
Beautiful song, I love this version.. AI pictures were/are just weird!!
one of the first long hits of jimmy webb
This is hilarious, like what might be created by a supersmart, ridiculously talented four-year-old. I'd like to see the video created by an AI that had the original lyrics along with an explanation of the symbolism.
My MacArthur Park:
First love 1968 Camp Hill Pa.
He was my King Arthur...so sensitive ❤
Awesome lyrics❤
I loved this mysterious song when I was young but as experienced love and life I realized I lived it.
It's nearly impossible to define the brilliance of Jimmy Webb. His talent doesn't seem to have a ceiling.
Oh love of my life ...where are you guy..
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice ❤
I never expected it.
After watching the movie, this song got stuck in my head so I looked it up and rejoiced in it. Had no idea Richard Harris the guy who played Dumbledore sang it
Inolvidable
Thank you for sharing what AI could do by 'taking the lyrics of the song. However, did someone notice that this is like when Google Translate, translated literally and the meaning didn't make sense? It killed the romance of the song. and that's precisely what AI can't do: emotions :)
🔵THEY COULD'VE USE A BETTER VIDEO WITH THIS SUPERB SONG INSTEAD OF THE AI WOKE VIDEO.🔴
Dumbledore can SIIIING! ❤❤❤
Brilliant!! Perfect piece of music for AI imagery.
AI has no soul and could never understand.
AI is kinda retarded, it takes things too literal 😆
I get so emotional when I play this song ❤😢
A super song Marvelous orkestarrangment
Love this!
Thank you....
.....Who Knew "AI" Is...Politically Correct.....Hmm...So Much for Imagination !
I bought the 45rpm record years ago and still have it
This video is about to blow up
Me hace recordar mi primaria 😃
I am more familiar with the Donna Summers version. I still don't know what this song is about. Is it about an acid trip or some other drug experience? Does anyone know?
It’s about lost love. This is the original version that became the number 2 song of 1968. Donna Summer’s 1978 disco version was the remake
It was a song about the love of Jimmy Webb's life marrying another man, and he was watching the ceremony in a shed in McArthur Park. There was a cake but it started raining and as he watched through the window it gave the impression that the cake was melting. What's not to understand if you research 🙂
@stephencouldwell9874 "What is not to understand..."? On its surface, some of the lyrics are not understandable. It didn't occur to me to research because some writers intentionally leave their work cryptic, and I thought that was the case here. I research all the time, but didn't consider to do so for the reason I provided above. It is a shame that you felt compelled to include that last sentence. Otherwise, it would have been a nice gesture.
Feelings aren't researched, they're experienced
@@stephencouldwell9874 Great comment, thank god someone understands the lyrics at last.
Literal interpretations of symbolic lyrics are ridiculously hokey.
DEPUIS BIENTOT 55 ANS CETTE SUPERBE CHANSON ET SON UNIQUE INTERPRETRE ME HANTENT PLEASE QUI PEUT M.AIDER POUR LE TRANSLATE MERCI Béba
Geniales divino
I AGREE SO GOOD
The old men are playing CHESS.
It's interesting how the AI interprets things like an autistic person.. very literally and without context (It didn't try to illustrate the meaning of the words together, but rather just showed stuff like striped pants or literally the metal of iron shaped into lovers, etc). Perhaps this rather says something more about what it WAS ASKED to do than its capacity.
The only thing it got, "right," was the pictures of MacArthur Park after it rained (Ie, that was likely exactly what the author was talking about when he mentioned it, "was melting").
"Old men playing checkers...." -- shows chess. :)
Don McLean
Such profound lyrics. After all these years I still don’t get how this became such a standard. The music I have to agree is wonderful. Perhaps that’s the thing. Words are nothing. It’s about the music. Harris such a great actor. In Camelot, Murphy’s war, A Man for All Seasons, to his swan song in the Harry Potter series.
Jimmy Web wrote this, Brainiacs
❤😊
the graphics are as comical as the words
This is killing me 😭 ....
4:50 "The great break"
From 1967❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Always a great but, confusing song.
Why is there a duck continuously quacking in this version and every other version that I listen to. So bloody annoying I have to turn it off.
I love this recording.
This video is idiotic.
The song is perfect, the AI video was hideous and did not reflect the song's meaning
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😊
Stupid video. LOVED THE SONG SINCE IT FIRST CAME OUT. MY OLDER SISTER HAD THE ALBUM. STILL HAVE IT….2024
Great... But nonsense rhymes! Like American Pie, Bohemian Rhapsody, people looking for deep meanings...None!!! The artists will admit as much themselves!
also whiter shade of pale.
The man who wrote this song has said it's about a break up and his memories of spending time in MacArthur Park with his ex. The cake is a metaphor for a something beautiful being ruined. Not a great metaphor but this song is not random.
Makes sense to me, that's enough.
6:04
Muppet
The song is beautiful, the visuals are terrible.
where in the lyrics does it say anything about big boobs?
Did someone say big boobs? Where? Where?
yeah AI botched it
Well whatever yawns , where’s my coffee!?
Stick to your day job! 😂🤔