I keep listening to Richard Harris version (the original) of MacArthur’s [sic] Park (off his album “A Tramp Shining“).
This song is so ridiculous it makes me giggle every time I hear it.
I remember hearing this song on AM radio in the late 1970s. It boggled me even then – what the hell is he talking about?
Highlights (according to me):
- he uses the word “stri – ped” which cracks me up
- the proto-disco interlude at around 5 min
- the fact he keeps calling it “MacArthur’s Park”
- read the lyrics!
- It’s Richard Harris! of the very serious and intense King Arthur depiction.
If you can survive that… the rest of Dave Barry’s list of worst songs is “cake” (ho ho ho)