Reminds me of this song, written by Jimmy Webb (title based on a sci-fi novel by Robert Heinlein).
Jimmy also wrote MacArthur Park, one of my faves from way back when (the Richard Harris version). "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" (a play on words for "Sweet Judy Blue Eyes") was written by Stephen Stills about his relationship with Judy Collins...
Haha, yeah, you either loved it or hated it. I was in the former group LOL, and love the story around it, too. If you search the word "MacArthur" in association with my name you can see how many times I've mentioned it over my years here .
More on Judy: Judy Collins sang Joni Mitchell's Both Sides Now in 1968 and
made it famous before Joni's version came out the next year on her LP Clouds.
After that it became one of Joni's best-known songs .
j/k, but... Judy recorded "Send in the Clowns" for her album Judith, which became a major pop hit. Collins' performance of Sondheim's composition was named song of the year at the Grammy Awards of 1976. Judith may have known Joni through Crosby Stills Nash and Young, since she dated Stephen Stills. Following Crosby’s departure from The Byrds, he helped Mitchell record her debut album, Song to a Seagull, released in 1968. Until then, Mitchell primarily played live shows or wrote songs that were performed by other musicians. CSN&Y recorded her song Woodstock on their 1970 album Déjà Vu, and it is probably the best-known version; she was inspired to write the song based on an account of the festival relayed to her by then-boyfriend Graham Nash. Yeah, she dated both Graham and David from that group. I wanted to go to Woodstock but I was too young.
David Crosby was with The Byrds when they wrote Turn! Turn! Turn! (he received his first writing credit on that LP), based on the text of Ecclesiastes 3:1-8. He is the one on the far left in this video from the Ed Sullivan Show in 1965, and looks like he doesn't know the words to the song near the beginning LOL.
For what it's worth, @seekingthemindofChrist , I also wanted to mention Stephen Stills' involvement in Buffalo Springfield with Neil Young before joining Crosby (formerly of The Byrds) and Graham Nash (formerly of The Hollies) in Crosby, Stills, & Nash, and also CSN&Y... here are Stephen and Neil doing a medley. Oh! Just loved Déjà Vu.
With apologies to Pipp... now I have CSN&Y songs on the brain... thinking about Our House, written by Graham Nash while he and Joni were living together. But even more so this song Stephen Stills' penned from Déjà Vu:
I was just playing faves from this same LP (i.e. Country Girl, 4 + 20), for a co-worker who said she'd never heard them before! LOL. She is not that much younger than me, but she just did not listen to those guys back then, whereas they were a staple for me, so much so that when I brought the songs I'd learned on my own to my group of friends for our regular hang-out jam sessions, it became a bit of a thing = "Oh no! Not another Neil Young song!!!" LOL
What type of music do you like? Do you still have a special place in your heart for certain songs from your youth? Hmmm, your youth... you are still young LOL. I mean songs from when you were younger... Do you like to listen to music while you are baking your delectable delicacies?
