Someone Left the Cake Out

By | July 10, 2009
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Harvey recommends the dulcet vocal stylings of Richard Harris for your Friday Video enjoyment.

Great discussion of this song in the comments over on YouTube. I love it when people get worked up about how Donna Summer ruined the artistic integrity of the song with her disco version. Also there’s the “I don’t get it” / “It’s a metpahor” argument. For a full of exegesis of the complex inner meaning of MacArthur Park, find anything Dennis Miller has written or said on the subject. He totally gets it.

Richard Harris is a pretty good talk-singer, but he’s no Shatner. My first exposure to Kahlil Gibran was actually an LP of Richard Harris reading selections from The Prophet with trippy eastern music playing in the background. The album included song versions of some of the poems, which Harris talk-sang.

  • Sally Morem

    I’ve got another good one for you. A YouTube video of Lorne Green singing a vocalese version of the “Bonanza” theme song.

    Hint: Lorne was definitely NOT a singer. :)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA-PdP4k4Xw

  • Harvey

    Those are some excellent suggestions Phil and Sally. There is another Bonanza theme with lyrics I think you might enjoy, but I can’t find it on Youtube. It’s by Strangers 1800. I think you might enjoy that one too, if you can find it.