Webb got on the phone with Variety to discuss the 56-year history of the tune, which people are much more eager to revisit than the actual MacArthur Park in L.A., a sketchier place now than it was ...

Jimmy Webb, who made 'MacArthur Park' with Richard Harris in 1968, recounts the song's strange story, from Donna Summer to Weird Al to 'Beetlejuice.' ...

I don’t know whether it was his shenanigans or whether it was “MacArthur Park” or what, but they had kind of cooled on him as an actor, and so he went out and was making his living as a singer.

Webb got on the phone with Variety to discuss the 56-year history of the tune, which people are much more eager to revisit than the actual MacArthur Park in L.A., a sketchier place now than it was ...