{"id":2585,"date":"2015-11-12T06:00:13","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T11:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keenerpodcast.com\/?p=2585"},"modified":"2015-11-11T17:26:36","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T22:26:36","slug":"tbt-with-donna-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/?p=2585","title":{"rendered":"#TBT With Donna Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Donna_Summer_1977\"<\/a>By Bob Berry<\/p>\n

It’s an astounding song, really.<\/p>\n

Lyrics<\/a><\/strong>, “…someone left a cake out out in the rain…” that are at once allusive and elusive. A song-poetry, really, built in 4 sections, or movements<\/a><\/strong>, much like a classical composition. And, it was 7 minutes long in it’s original form.<\/p>\n

And yet, Jimmy Webb’s<\/a><\/strong> “MacArthur Park”, for all it’s\u00a0contrarian Top 40 radio characteristics,\u00a0has twice been a smash.<\/p>\n

The original, the debut recording<\/a><\/em><\/strong> for Irish actor Richard Harris<\/a><\/strong> was Top 5 in the summer of ’68.\u00a0And, again ten\u00a0years later, for Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member, Donna Summer<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

At the height of her success, her 4 minute single was Number One for the week of November 12, 1978, on both the Billboard Hot 100 and Dance charts<\/a><\/strong>. And, at the same time, she was #1 on the albums charts, with her album Live and More, featuring the eighteen minute “MacArthur Park Suite<\/a><\/strong>“.<\/p>\n

Enjoy Throwback Thursday on Keener!<\/p>\n