Jimmy Webb - MacArthur Park download song

Jimmy was still struggling with his style, his delivery.. this song is my all-time favorite. .. not necessarily this version.. but he was still a genius.. "after all the loves of my life, i'll be thinking of you... and wondering why???"

"I will win the worship in their eyes and I will lose it". Game over.

I used to think this was the dumbest song ever, but tonight I listened to Jimmy Webb's cover and many others and looked at the lyrics. GREAT SONG! I can only compare it to "The Girl from the North Country" for its poignancy of young love lost. I also read his book on songwriting. It's tremendous. Thanks for everything, Jimmy Webb. You are one of the creators. 

Man, this makes me want to go to MacArthur Park and leave a cake.

Interesting to see Jimmy Webb's own interpretation of the song.

To everyone: Don't explain the lyrics to me...just let me listen. To Jimmy Webb: Thank you.

He did a legend with this work,  is just amaizing. Thanks for to share.

This was absolutely fabulous.... I was aware of the Richard Harris, Glen Campbell and Donna Summer versions, but I didn't know who the writer was. It's clear that he is so connected with this song.....

Oh my gosh. So he really could sing. As a matter of fact, his is now officially the best version of this song I have ever heard. Including the glorious Donna Summer. It's just that there's nothing like hearing the writer of a truly wonderful song perform it him or herself when they do it as well as Jimmy Webb does here. Bravo.

Steve Hackett of Genesis quoted this particular song as the major influence that led him and his bandmates to create their own sound, defining what would be later known as prog

This song is a metaphor .

MacAuthur Park......One of the best songs of the 60's

Jimmy Webb is one of the all time great song writers.

A magnificent and soulful performance. How I wish he'd recorded this for release instead of Richard Harris. I can't get enough. Many thanks for this post.

So fine to see the composer singing his own song!

It's so beautiful... and true. If one has to start again say after 40?? This song takes on a crystal clear meaning. The GREAT Jimmy Webb lol...

I love how he sings this song with such passion and longingness........ and a bit of sadness. I like the way he and Richard Harris sing this song. Richard Harris being an excellent actor was able to bring forth the emotion Jimm Webb was feeling at that time. It is a great song. I first heard this song at 15yo.I don't think I would have written how much I like this song then as I do now as an adult. I love Richard Harris. when I see him, I still think of Camelot???

Jimmy Webb was "out there", over the top, cerebral. A poet and song writer on a par with Jim Morrison and a young John Prine who was breaking out at about the same time. I remember when Richard Harris first cut this song around 1968 and people absolutely loved the song but said to each other 'what the hell is he talking about? Why does he go on for over 7 minutes about a birthday cake?' In those dark ages before the Net hardly anyone back East even knew what a McArthur Park was and why on earth it was relevant to a cake. Then someone finally explained what it was really about and the genius of Webb broke through as we wondered how a  20-21 year old kid could have done enough living to write something like this.

The one of the coolest songs ever.