Re: Waylon Jennings and the Mandolin
The really cool thing here is the finding and posting of the clip, at long last. Good sleuthing, there. Goes a looong way to getting the story right.
While we're working on that, I'd like to point out that it's Gram Parsons. His given name was Ingram Cecil Connor III. His stage name is a vast improvement, IMO.
Oh, almost forgot - Chris Hillman is still very much with us, and celebrated his 77th birthday a couple of weeks ago.
Here's the official video of the song. Note similar approach of Waylon holding the mandolin up to his vocal mic while his guitar was hanging from its strap. In this instance, which may have been recorded live, you can hear mandolin. You can't in the DOH clip, maybe a little near the end. That helps prove - as if there were any doubt - that that performance was phony baloney lip-synching.
But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong. - Dennis Miller
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