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Legends of Songwriting : Jimmy Webb

Bill DeMain, Performing Songwriter, March 2007

"SOMEONE LEFT the cake out in the rain." No single lyric is more infamous in pop music than the one Jimmy Webb wrote forty years ago, as the centerpiece of 'MacArthur Park'.

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