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Both Harris' and Summer's versions of "MacArthur Park" appear in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024); Summer's is heard during the film's opening production logos and closing credits, [54] while, in a similar manner as "Day-O" in the first film, Harris' version is performed during a wedding scene, where it is lip-synched and danced to by the cast.
Arkansas-born Glen Campbell began his music career as a session guitarist and singer who played and sang on numerous surf, hot rod, and sunshine pop records in the mid-1960s. After filling in for Brian Wilson as a touring member of the Beach Boys in 1965, Capitol Records (the Beach Boys' label) offered Campbell a solo recording contract.
Webb formed his own production and publishing company that year, Canopy, and scored a hit with its first project, an unlikely album with Irish actor Richard Harris singing an album of all Webb songs. One of the songs, "MacArthur Park", was a long, complex piece with multiple movements [9] that was originally rejected by the group the Association.
The film opens and ends with Donna Summer’s 1978 remake, which sends everyone out with a spring in their step, after hearing the more melodramatic Harris version at length earlier.
Songwriter Jimmy Webb wrote the song "MacArthur Park" in the late '60s. While it was recorded by multiple artists, most people remember Donna Summer's massive disco version.
The summer solstice is actually the same thing as the "first day of summer," so it also takes place on Thursday, June 20. Specifically, it'll occur at 4:50 p.m. EST.
Streisand sang "Didn't We" during her 2012-2013 concert tour, Barbra Live. It was performed immediately after her 1963 rendition of "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" and before Charlie Chaplin's 1936 single "Smile". The song then appeared on her eighth live album, Back to Brooklyn (2013), and the accompanying DVD release of the same name.
In 2013, Summer, who died in 2012, achieved a posthumous No. 1 hit on Billboard’s Dance Club Songs when Laidback Luke remixed the ballad as “MacArthur Park 2013” for the tribute album "Love ...