Let me explain. It’s not that I love the song, it’s that it is so fun to sing along with into your air microphone and over-emote to. Like if it comes on the radio(it happens so seldom) and my husband is driving, I start singing it to him. It is hilariously fun----although I do have to stop before he gets too annoyed for driving safety reasons. Also, if there is someone you don’t like, someone who just keeps nipping at you bit by bit you can start singing this song really loud to them and they go away. It only takes a couple of times to get permanent results.
Youoooooooooo, light up myay lifffffffe, youuuuuuuu give me hopppe to carry onuhon…
When I was a high school teacher, my students used to remark that I reminded them of Mister Rogers. They thought that they were putting me down, but I took it as a compliment. Mr Rogers, wherever you are, I miss you. I really liked your song, “It’s a wonderful day in the neighborhood.”
How, I ask, are we going to get along without your gentle enthusiasm?
Apologies for being obscure!
Richard Harris recorded that well-known version of MacArthur Park,
but his main career was classically trained actor. His last major film role before he died in '02 was Albus Dumbledore in the first 2 movie installments of the Harry Potter books. The role was assumed by Michael Gambon for the third movie.
My original Chiff signature was “It’s a neighborly day in this beautywood.”
(MisterRogers scrambled the words “It’s a beautiful day in this neighborhood” in verse two when he sang it on the show.)
I just want to make this clear. Nobody can beat me at this game. My tastes have changed quite a bit since then, but in junior high I actually liked “Billy Don’t be a Hero” and “The Night Chicago Died.”
I could not embarrass myself further if I got drunk at a chiff function and sang “Feelings.”(which I never even liked.)
Just try to top that.
Wichita Lineman… time for a remake?
I can see it now, someone doing a ‘metal’ or hip-version.
Songfacts:
This was written by Jimmy Webb, who also wrote Campbell’s “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” and “Galveston.” He was driving along the Kansas-Oklahoma border when he saw a lonesome telephone lineman working atop a telephone pole. This gave him the idea for the song.
While recording the song in the studio, Campbell felt something was out of place. He couldn’t capture the same feel of the song he’d felt when Webb sang the demo as he accompanied himself on his Hammond organ. Campbell decided that the only way to get the right vibe was to add Webb’s Hammond organ to the song’s instrumentation.
