Comparing the MacArthur Parks

[remicks]

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Here is the Meco version of MACARTHUR PARK as released in 1977:



Now after listening still again .... (at the 3:39 minute mark) I would be very surprised to learn that Giorgio had never heard this before coming up with :





I know Stephen Freeman , last this was discussed, you weren't quite as convinced and I will grant you that as you pointed out both are structured closely in accordance with parts (around the five minute mark) of the original performed by Richard Harris:





I don't know ... Meco / Giorgio ... those horns ....that final horn blast note ... so similar .... :icon_confused:


Thoughts and impressions ??? :icon_mrgreen: All input always welcomed ...:icon_mrgreen:




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--- A bit more about one of music's most legendary pop songs made even more so by its unlikely claim of acceptance within the happening dance clubs some ten years later with its phenomenally successful re-interpretation as a :icon_eek:DISCO !!:icon_eek: number .... :icon_twisted: :






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[STEPHEN L FREEMAN]

Now after listening still again .... (at the 3:39 minute mark) I would be very surprised to learn that Giorgio had never heard this before coming up with :

I know Stephen Freeman , last this was discussed, you weren't quite as convinced and I will grant you that as you pointed out both are structured closely in accordance with parts (around the five minute mark) of the original performed by Richard Harris:

I don't know ... Meco / Giorgio ... those horns ....that final horn blast note ... so similar .... :icon_confused:

Thoughts and impressions ??? :icon_mrgreen: All input always welcomed ...:icon_mrgreen:

Actually, that horn section at the 3:39 mark of the MECO version (part 2, on YouTube) is the part of the arrangement I was referring to in our earlier discussions. That horn riff was the most significant hook in the original arrangement, for the Richard Harris recording.

I don't know how to paste images and clips into messages, nor store Mp3 or Quicktime clips on other sites, (I'll admit, I'm an anolog guy, in a digital world.:icon_redface:) and I don't see a vid-clip of the Richard Harris version showing-up in my Google search. Otherwise, I'd clip the horn section from it and link it.

[Cdnbob]

Remicks, which Meco album is this version of MacArthur Park on? I really like this version which is very similar to Donna's version.

[remicks]

Remicks, which Meco album is this version of MacArthur Park on? I really like this version which is very similar to Donna's version.

It's this :






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