The Yard Went on Forever

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[oldedragon1]

I first heard this piece at La Palma Stadium in 1969. It was mezmerizing. Years later I learned the lyrics. They were both beautiful and haunting.  Thank you for posting this video. Spectemur Agendo.

[oscar120153]

You are most welcome. I have this memory of hearing it on the radio when the 1968 Democratic Convention was going on. So I just had to buy the 45 rpm.

[ArielleKelly]

tears and memories and more tears beautiful...cherished...may everybody be safe, and may everybody have a place to hide

[oscar120153]

Thank you for your kind words!

[florafox]

thanks so much oscar, you brought the piece back to me after 30 years.

[oscar120153]

You are most welcome!

[TheCoddlefish]

"Watermark" is a totally overlooked masterpiece. I mean, the kid could arrange a complicated orchestral piece like a virtuouso. My dream is to somehow get ALL his music and strip all the vocals off just so I can enjoy the intricacies of the background music ALONE! It blows my mind, this guy being so young back then. He won the 1968 for best orchestral arrangement for "MacArthur Park," but very few people know that.

[BoyMorganIII]

I'm hearing this song and macarthurs park for the first time.

This guy really took some musical risks even for his time period.

[samdees]

this is my alltime favorite when it comes to  romantic and apocalyptic vision

strange and scary

[bckm54]

this was a terrible song. Terrible in that it was so true. Terrible in that it was so needed. But wonderful in that out of disaster comes renewal. I loved this song from my young teen years. Thank you for posting it.

[laidbacklarry1]

Jimmy Webb... a music genius. Jimmy wrote two albums for Richard Harris, this being from

the second "The Yard Went on Forever". I loved it, but my ex hated it... guess that's one reason she's my ex.

[egapnala65]

@Tinsby If you listen to the last track on the album "That's the way it was", the choir sing that very phrase. I thought it was all about "Cartwheels" and " Do they know destruction?" myself for a while.

[bobareebop]

"And she would cook their dreams while they were dreaming..."

What a gorgeous line.

[bobareebop]

@oldedragon1 That would be the Anaheim Kingsmen playing a nice Ken Norman arangement!

[TheCoddlefish]

Thanks SO much for going to all that trouble. I clearly remember that what you got was exactly what they told me. You don't need to look any further, as far as I know. By coincidence, I became Catholic this year, although mostly to placate my husband. I have a lot of personal disagreements with some of their "rules." ;) while I am still very much a Christian.

[Tinsby]

@TheCoddlefish Well I found what they are 'allegedly' supposed to be:

De Profundis clamavi ad te Domine, Donae Nobis Pacem translation: "Out the deep I have cried to you, Lord grant us peace."

the Jimmy Webb forum produced a similar response one person like myself doesn't hear those words either, but he won't say what he thinks they are! I have slowed down the track, changed the EQ and no matter how I run the track together it sure doesn't sound like Latin. Jimmy Webb needs to email me a reply

[TheCoddlefish]

It's here on "YouTube." Bet none of the rest of you can remember him on skater Peggy Fleming's ABC TV special actually singing this in a "video." I've searched high and low for it, but to no avail. He was one of her guest stars, early 1969, I think.