Our bottom ten songs of the 1960s:
9. Honey (Bobby Goldsboro)
8. It Hurts To Be In Love (Gene Pitney)
7. The Beat Goes On (Sonny and Cher)
6. It Must Be Him (Vicki Carr)
5. In The Year 2525 (Zager and Evans)
4. Reach Out Of The Darkness ( Friend and Lover)
3. MacArthur Park (Richard Harris)
1. Young Girl (Gary Puckett and the Union Gap)
come on guys this one has to fit in there somewhere
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozqfOzqMvlQ
or how about Scott McKenzie’s San Francisco
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bch1_Ep5M1s
“you’re gonna meet some gentle people there”
This a test?
I may be the only human being alive who understands the baroque charm of MacArthur Park. Also, Roger Whittaker is way underrated. Slim Whitman, too.
I aver, MP, that I had overlooked the baroque charm.
Someone left the cake out in the rain…yeah man, there it is.
😉
MP is onto one of the hidden treasures of the 60s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cdx90UO21dk
sadly the sound engineers/producers of the time recorded things so “bright” to compensate for AM distortion and poor speaker quality that some recordings of the era are jarring on modern playback mediums
Oddly, the only one Weird Al has spoofed is MacArthur Park, with the brilliant Jurassic Park. Regarding #7, I remember my dad telling me that Sonny couldn’t sing to save his life, but people put up with it so they could hear, and see, Cher.
The last time Sirius XM gave away the milk in the hope I’d buy the cow I clicked on the 70’s channel. If I was hoping to never again hear “Night Chicago Died”, “Seasons in the Sun” or “Muskrat Love” I picked the wrong time to tune in.
I’d say:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr6LkYh5SIc
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO7cD6qmydo
have to be right up there.