Comments on: Songs About Los Angeles: “MacArthur Park” by Donna Summer http://blogging.la/2009/05/01/songs-about-los-angeles-macarthur-park-by-donna-summer/ Lizard people dude. Seriously. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:54:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Matt Mason http://blogging.la/2009/05/01/songs-about-los-angeles-macarthur-park-by-donna-summer/comment-page-1/#comment-44337 Matt Mason Sat, 02 May 2009 17:29:55 +0000 http://la.metblogs.com/?p=27015#comment-44337 In the rather slim category of song lyrics about food left out in the rain, I always preferred the funny and less head-scratching line from David Byrne's "Loco de Amor": Like a pizza in the rain No one want to take you home In the rather slim category of song lyrics about food left out in the rain, I always preferred the funny and less head-scratching line from David Byrne’s “Loco de Amor”:

Like a pizza in the rain
No one want to take you home

]]> By: philpalm http://blogging.la/2009/05/01/songs-about-los-angeles-macarthur-park-by-donna-summer/comment-page-1/#comment-44336 philpalm Sat, 02 May 2009 06:13:11 +0000 http://la.metblogs.com/?p=27015#comment-44336 Disco was coke-fueled but Mac Arthur Park was a haven for crack smoking. What stopped people from smoking crack? They installed TV cameras and had the sub police station there and finally stopped it. I never have seen old men play Chinese Checkers in the park but they did play chess there at the tables. They did play for money at times too. No mention of the lake in the song but several people have drowned in the lake. That isn't quite what leaving the cake out in the rain represents, but the green melting might represent what greenery is growing in the park. Disco was coke-fueled but Mac Arthur Park was a haven for crack smoking. What stopped people from smoking crack? They installed TV cameras and had the sub police station there and finally stopped it.

I never have seen old men play Chinese Checkers in the park but they did play chess there at the tables. They did play for money at times too.

No mention of the lake in the song but several people have drowned in the lake. That isn’t quite what leaving the cake out in the rain represents, but the green melting might represent what greenery is growing in the park.

]]> By: Chal Pivik http://blogging.la/2009/05/01/songs-about-los-angeles-macarthur-park-by-donna-summer/comment-page-1/#comment-44335 Chal Pivik Fri, 01 May 2009 22:51:48 +0000 http://la.metblogs.com/?p=27015#comment-44335 Like I said, lezgull, private madness. And Will, yeah, those quirky coke-fueled disco days. Btw, both the Richard Harris and Donna Summer record had a space added to the title: Mac Arthur Park. Like I said, lezgull, private madness. And Will, yeah, those quirky coke-fueled disco days. Btw, both the Richard Harris and Donna Summer record had a space added to the title: Mac Arthur Park.

]]> By: lezgull http://blogging.la/2009/05/01/songs-about-los-angeles-macarthur-park-by-donna-summer/comment-page-1/#comment-44334 lezgull Fri, 01 May 2009 22:30:56 +0000 http://la.metblogs.com/?p=27015#comment-44334 I have never understood the meaning of this song. "someone left the cake out in the rain i dont think that i can take it cause it took so long to bake it and ill never have that recipe again" wtf!?! by the way ...im having flashbacks of having to sing this in 8th grade choir. oh the humanity I have never understood the meaning of this song. “someone left the cake out in the rain i dont think that i can take it cause it took so long to bake it and ill never have that recipe again” wtf!?! by the way …im having flashbacks of having to sing this in 8th grade choir. oh the humanity

]]> By: WILL CAMPBELL http://blogging.la/2009/05/01/songs-about-los-angeles-macarthur-park-by-donna-summer/comment-page-1/#comment-44333 WILL CAMPBELL Fri, 01 May 2009 21:17:58 +0000 http://la.metblogs.com/?p=27015#comment-44333 Ha. Shouldn't have paused it to comment. She sing's every reference as "Macarthur's". Even Harris didn't do that. Ha. Shouldn’t have paused it to comment. She sing’s every reference as “Macarthur’s”. Even Harris didn’t do that.

]]> By: WILL CAMPBELL http://blogging.la/2009/05/01/songs-about-los-angeles-macarthur-park-by-donna-summer/comment-page-1/#comment-44332 WILL CAMPBELL Fri, 01 May 2009 21:13:40 +0000 http://la.metblogs.com/?p=27015#comment-44332 Interesting that Donna Summer sings that first reference as "Macarthur's" park (and the karaoke lyrics read the same. I read an interview with Webb wherein he said he wrote it as "MacArthur" but that Richard Harris flubbed it as the possessive on so many takes that it was decided just to keep it. Interesting that Donna Summer sings that first reference as “Macarthur’s” park (and the karaoke lyrics read the same. I read an interview with Webb wherein he said he wrote it as “MacArthur” but that Richard Harris flubbed it as the possessive on so many takes that it was decided just to keep it.

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