Platinum songwriter Jimmy Webb
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This is Fresh Air. I'm Dave Davies. Dog. All the sweet icy flowing down Um
The cake out in the rain I don't Take it. Cause it took so long to bake it
I'll never have that recipe again. That's MacArthur Park with some of the most baffling song lyrics and music. Even so, it became a huge hit for Richard Harris in nineteen sixty eight. It was written by Jimmy Webb, who wrote quite a few hit songs in the sixties and seventies. They include By the Time I Get to Phoenix, Wichita Lineman, and Galveston by Glenn Campbell.
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