RE:Eve of Destructionthanks for the music trivia there sumppump, pf sloan also wrote songs for the band "The Turtles": You Baby and Let Me Be..... one big hit from the 1960s was MacArthur Park, written by Jimmy Webb, who can forget the lyrics: it was covered by numerous artists and was a staple in many concerts of that era..... makes me hungry now for some cake..... hope one can remember the recipe....
Spring was never waiting for us, girl
It ran one step ahead
As we followed in the dance
Between the parted pages and were pressed
In love's hot, fevered iron
Like a striped pair of pants
MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh no!
I recall the yellow cotton dress
Foaming like a wave
On the ground around your knees
The birds, like tender babies in your hands
And the old men playing checkers by the trees
MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh no!
There will be another song for me
For I will sing it
There will be another dream for me
Someone will bring it
I will drink the wine while it is warm
And never let you catch me looking at the sun
And after all the loves of my life
After all the loves of my life
You'll still be the one
I will take my life into my hands and I will use it
I will win the worship in their eyes and I will lose it
I will have the things that I desire
And my passion flow like rivers through the sky
And after all the loves of my life
Oh, after all the loves of my life
I'll be thinking of you
And wondering why
MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh no!
Oh no
No
Oh no!
sumpineh wrote: Song written in 1964 by PF Sloan Released in 1965 by Barry McGuire.Books like On the Beach written by Nevil Shute in 1957 and Failsafe by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler in 1962 were what I grew up with. Russian and American Nuclear weapons pointed at each like a western showdown where both sides would lose. We were told that a strike on New York city would obliterate everything within a 600 mile radius and the fallout would eventually take out the rest of the world.Fortunately cooler heads prevailed.In 1963 when JF Kennedy was assinated we thought that might be the tipping point. What could anyone do? This is what started the drug cultured peace movement with hippies etc. We would get high every night wondering if we would even be around the next day.Viet Nam was in full swing and Canada became home for many draft dodgers.America was split between warmongers and peaceniks.Since then there have been many small wars without worldwide repercussions. We may have come full circle. Hopefully a peaceful solution can be achieved. If not then I will see you all on the other side.Worrying will not help.GLTA