johnsykes wrote:Was an extremely minor player...main players were Charles P. Rodney Chandler (Chuck) and Roger Scott from our station (CFOX)...I was in the back row for sure. Not claiming anything...was just there, that's all.
In print and on the air, Chuck has claimed he couldn't sing, so merely played the coffee table.
As for MacArthur Park, it was a 7 minute coda that formed the last movement of a 22 minute cantata written by Jimmy Webb and turned down by The Association -- they didn't want to waste an entire album side on something they considered so uncommercial. Like parts of many Beatles songs, I always that cake in the rain bit was merely a nice sounding ordering of words with absolutely no meaning. But I've never heard Mr. Webb's comments on the subject. Interviews with him on KHJ's original The History of Rock and Roll focused on how the record was produced: each instrument was recorded separately because Jimmy wanted his choice for the best at each instrument worldwide. Then, when it was all mixed, Richard Harris sung with the recording.