Hi everyone, gee i LOVE LOVE LOVE this song. I have known for most of my life the DONNA SUMMER version which is amazing due to Donna's beautiful voice and the disco sound.
But please also check out the Richard Harris version which came first. It is so genuine and multi-layered, with 4 parts which are all very contrasting.
The Green cake metaphor also intrigued me so i looked it up. Jimmy Webb wrote this song about the end of a relationship in 1965. He used to meet this woman in Macarthur park in LA at that time. They had these big birthday parties there when he would spend time with his lover. He said he was re-enacting those times when he wrote the lyrics. The cake could been seen as a metaphor for the creation of the relationship and so after the end, the cake was wasted. The rain is the emotions of sadness after it ended. But you see the cake is also a literal memory from the relationship before it ended.
Jimmy put all the real stuff into the lyrics :) the best ingredients to any cake, sorry, song lol
Hi everyone, gee i LOVE LOVE LOVE this song. I have known for most of my life the DONNA SUMMER version which is amazing due to Donna's beautiful voice and the disco sound. But please also check out the Richard Harris version which came first. It is so genuine and multi-layered, with 4 parts which are all very contrasting.
The Green cake metaphor also intrigued me so i looked it up. Jimmy Webb wrote this song about the end of a relationship in 1965. He used to meet this woman in Macarthur park in LA at that time. They had these big birthday parties there when he would spend time with his lover. He said he was re-enacting those times when he wrote the lyrics. The cake could been seen as a metaphor for the creation of the relationship and so after the end, the cake was wasted. The rain is the emotions of sadness after it ended. But you see the cake is also a literal memory from the relationship before it ended. Jimmy put all the real stuff into the lyrics :) the best ingredients to any cake, sorry, song lol
love love love it