Harris, Parton, Ronstadt on Late Show, March 24, 1999 (full, stereo)
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- "Trio II" was recorded in 1994 but not released until 1999, when Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton, and Linda Ronstadt appeared on Late Show to perform Neil Young's "After the Gold Rush." The Glass Harmonica (or Armonica) was played by Dennis James, who remembers the performance in an interview with Rich Bailey in 2002:
Rich Bailey: I remember when you appeared with her on Letterman and you discussed the Armonica a bit. How was that?
Dennis James: Well, it was a great surprise. A sort of unspoken message in the air to me before the broadcast was "Do not say anything on the air!”. After all, these things are Linda's appearances. When David L. leaned over his desk and directed a question to me I simply froze- on playback of the dub I can see myself caught and unable to speak. I received a glance from Linda that said to me it was OK and so when he tried again I called back a flip one liner and on things went from there.
www.ronstadt-linda.com/djames....
The synthesizer player is Cliff Carter. I think the pianist is Robbie Kondor.
The Trio altered two lines in their original "Trio II" recording:
1. "in the nineteen seventies" changed to "in the twentieth century."
2. "And I felt like getting high" changed to "And I felt like I could cry."
Here's their CD version: • Trio - After The Gold ...
It'd be tough to imagine them changing the lyrics without first getting Neil's permission.
So to everyone complaining about the lyric changes in this live performance: Don't blame the show or the network. The changes had been made in the Trio's original recording. And, we must assume, with Neil Young's blessing.
Update: Quoting Wikipedia: "Parton also released a solo version of the song in 1996, though her version altered the line 'I felt like getting high' to 'I felt like I could cry' with the permission of Neil Young."
No lip-synching. No dancing. No light show. Just pure raw talent. And no egos.
No Auto-tune either.
Just perfection....
Oh, there were plenty of egos. Just not on display here.
You won't find this anymore on today's joke of what they now call evening talk shows.
Why Don you people feel the need to criticize?
Listening in 2023 . It never gets old ❤
Hello Wendy
How are you doing today?
Here in 2024
2024 and still love this. Incredible
Here in Mexico City, 2024 post- pandemic. Remembering when I first heard these voices, first heard those lyrics of Neil Young…70s 80s90s… tears in my eyes for all the beauty that can just go by…
Sheer perfection.
If these three together don't give you chills, you have no pulse.
I cried
It’s a bit of magic, isn’t it
Ou são depressivos ( risos )
We might be dead if you like this
Agreed! Surreal and otherworldly , just simply unbelievable.
Nice to go back in time. I miss Linda Ronstadt’s amazing voice.
Anyone else watching this in the twenty-first century?
April 2020
Of course will always be one of the best!
April 2020.
Too beautiful for words. May 28, 2020.
Yes, thankfully...
Linda Ronstadt long long time is a masterpiece❤
No auto tune……Just natural perfection!❤
Hello Catherine
How are you doing today?
Linda Rondstadt was the best vocalist ever! She could sing anything from country to opera!
It's real easy to forget a major talent like Janis Joplin she sang acapella no backup and her Mercedes-Benz song dominated the number one spot in the chart for months. I don't see this person singing it without a band behind her so she's got a talent but I got to put my money on Janis Joplin having the best because she stood alone and dominated first place for a long time everybody else got some band
@@markmcgoveran6811 Barbra Streisand and Karen Carpenter are the two best ever, and didnt have bands.
@@omgDavidGlasper Janis Joplin held the Mercedes-Benz song in the number one spot for a few weeks with no music. I would call that the greatest accomplishment for a female vocalist in my life time.
Rondstadt is a goddess of a voice
Linda is great, but she lacks pure emotion. There is no greatest, just personal favs. i personally rate Judith Durham light years over any other female singer, and that includes the incomparable Dame Shirley Bassey. 😊
Those Linda Ronstadt high harmonies are stunning.
She could sing anything in any genre! A once in a lifetime talent.
Check out her stuff with Philip Glass.
She has an incredible range. In some of the other clips of the three of them, she sings the low harmony. All three of them have simply amazing, iconic voices.
Linda once said that she loved singing like this as she didn't have to sing leads and could focus on harmonies. That 4 octave voice certainly soared in this. Parkinson's is a miserable disease.
No ego, just pure talent in harmony. You could sense that the trio were both happy and proud to be singing together. The result is music that's heaven on earth.
Simple class, utterly beautiful
Three class acts
@@sherripickett3213
Don’t forget Neil
Love each of these ladies for their talents each brings, but together it is angelic music for my soul. Love, love, love it! I am mesmerized by that glass harmonica!
No egos, you are correct.
I've attended two David Letterman shows in my lifetime , this was one of them. My hosts and I had no idea who the guests were that evening (until we got there); and then, this happened. I'm not a religious man, but I suspect this is the closest I'm ever going to get.
Absolute perfection.
Wow ! What a beautiful memory..
❤
oh my god.
Well...religion doesn't take anyone to a Heavenly place anyways. If you truly enjoyed the experience, it's time to get in terms with JesusChrist. The place alone and the Angels Choir will blow your mind for the whole eternity. 😉
@@ottozambrana66 Amen brother
This is talent! No overdone loud noise. Just beautiful pure harmony. Gosh this is good!
best trio of all time !! it's a crying shame that Linda Ronstadt can no longer amaze us with her incredible voice. love you always little bare foot girl !!
Such a fantastic song by Neil Young, done oh so well and lovingly by this Dream Team! It's so perfect it all seems like a dream to me.
I just loved the way Dolly and Linda would side glance at each other. Wether it was the pure joy of singing or reassurance, it was beautiful.
Hello Lesley, how are you doing?
Hello Callum, how are you doing?
Being 62, there was a time when I was in love with each of these beautiful artists and their voices. Still am. Thanks
Hey, hey, 63. I was first. 🤭
Got you guys beat by a bunch. Just started a new decade 80.
I love those three. Each of them a big deal on their own, but submitting to the music and just blending with each other. Sublime. ❤
‘Submitting to the music’
Cannot hold the tears back. This is beyond just talent! It takes you to another dimension. At 3:39 it is so hauntingly beautiful! Unsurpassed!
Hello Brenda
How are you doing today?
When music was art . Beautiful song and three icons. Amazing and emotional.
Absolutely heavenly. Great harmony. Linda has always been my favoutite. Devistated when she no longer sang due to her medical issue. 😢 Great to be able to view how great she was. ❤
Hello Pamela
How are you doing today?
They are all great ❤this
Love the sound of the glass harmonica with the voices of the three ladies !
There is no doubt, this is the best three female trio ever to grace this planet, never equaled, never mind overtaken. God bless Linda Ronstadt and return her voice to its correct place.
If you can find it.. her album “Hand Seen, Home Grown” is awesome early Ronstadt
Hand Sewn Home Grown
She says she sings in her head now
I would add Karen Carpenter to that list. I was just thinking how incredibly her voice would harmonize with these beautiful women.
@@Chefsandrajm 💛
If this doesn't bring tears, nothing will.
brought tears to my eyes
Separate, these three voices are each amazing. Together, they are astonishing! The whole is greater than the sum of its parts!
24 years later, I'm wondering how I missed this! We see Dolly and Linda occasionally through the years, all three emitting true beauty, but not having seen Emmylou Harris since the 80s, she has entered her senior years as an incredibly beautiful woman. I had not idea she was still performing! I love how humble they are, not overpowering or upstaging, a wonderful blending of three iconic voices. Wow.
Checkout Emmylou and Mark Knopfler recordings if you haven't already. Great stuff.
I’m grateful to have lived in an era of singers if this quality and character
Yes indeed . Did not realise how luckly we were at the time .Took such quality for granted.
Linda Ronstadt married a terrorist
This performance should never be lost. It is timeless, magnificent, pure. So wonderful to hear
No backup singers, just pure voices, nothing today can compare!!!
Hard to believe that Linda Ronstadt is 75 years old, time flies but her music lives on.
Linda is holding back her voice on this song. Just happy to harmonize beautifully. I’ve never heard a voice quite like Linda Ronstadt ever.
Bella Bella I know right?
Linda has the extra ordinary ability to weave her voice in tight harmonies that few can match. She's there, you can distinctly hear her, but she's not dominating the melody. All three of their voices are tremendous instruments on their own.
It’s so tragic that she lost her voice to Progressive Supranuclear Palsy.
Bella Bella- as to Linda’s voice, I don’t believe anyone else has heard any quite like her either. Listening years earlier to Andrew Gold & Kenny Edwards backing her up is as good as vocal arrangements can get, imo. She’s a treasure no doubt...plus she’s always had “It”
Yes, all three so humbly blended with the others. So beautiful.
I keep coming back to this song, and it never fails to make me cry like a baby. It feels like the funeral dirge for the planet Earth.
I think that it is exactly that. Neil Young is a kind of prophet.
It may be
Yes💧
The funeral dirge are the bad thoughts, from the left, leading to self destruction.
What would leave no trace in 5000 years?
Perhaps an ideology that convinced the young that they are destroying the planet, causing them to walk away from civilization leaving only overgrown buildings?
this amazing trio... Linda with prefect pitch. Emmylou with her amazing talent for Harmony. What can you say about Dolly... heaven given talent.
Emmylou has been so under rated for years she always has been a phenomenal singer!
Dolly has the most beautiful voice I’ve ever heard Allison Krauss is a close second I’m positive this is what angels singing sounds like God blessed us with these ladies we need to appreciate and thank them and god
The part that really hit me is the look of absolute joy and happiness on Linda's face as she looks over at the other two -- as if there is NO PLACE in the world that she would rather be than on that stage adding her voice to help create that magic!
Even the angels are crying right now...this is what heaven must sound like.
ANDDDDDD she's singing the highest of all high harmonies on this song!!!!
Just listened to an old concert from the 70's on UA-cam when Linda described getting a breathless call from Emmylou to hurry and get herself over to her house; their favorite singer, Dolly Parton was there. She went on to say they sang together, sounded pretty good and hoped something would come of it. Something did!
She recently reflected that since she was a young girl, all she ever wanted was to be a singer, "how cool is that?" she asks.
Goose bumps
This song sends chills down my spine. So blessed to have seen Linda LIVE! A divine performance from all.
Much love and healing from us to Linda, always
Absolutely! Not only sung by three superstar women but the words are even more relevant today!
Hello dear,how are you doing,how is the weather over there,can i be your friend if you don't mind?
Almost 22 years later...wow this is so moving🥰
LOVELY. THANK YOU. At 57, one of the few joys of my life has been Linda Ronstadt...for over 40 years, as both of grew older. Thanks, again.
Sounds good to me.
They took Neil Young’s tune to another level. Absolutely beautiful. Thank God platforms such as this exist. We will never lose the memories.
To a level of censorship re the lyrics.
Tomorrow will be a Neil Young day, zzzzzzzzzz
Nah sorry it’s good but in now way his level. Neil Young owned this song.
@@neilmccormick2064 they made a couple of alterations, yeah. Can you really picture those ladies singing "and I felt like getting high"?
It's a gorgeous rendering of a classic...gave me chills to hear it.
@@peterkelly6146 Isnt every day a Neil Young day?
So happy to see Linda Ronstadt too.. amazing voice… all three are so gifted
So sorry for the infringe on your privacy. Beautiful song. Hello
i listen to linda rondstadt's voice and it brings tears to my eyes. such a glorious voice silenced by disease, i'm glad i had a chance to hear her at her best in my lifetime.
Love these ladies. EmmyLou is more beautiful each year, Dolly is amazing, Linda is wonderful. So glad to have this video.
Hi Laurie hope you're okay?
I remember seeing this live. I was holding a sleepless babe in my arms, rocking her. This performance brought me to tears. Husband bought the CD fo me the next day. Said daughter is all grown. Performance can still evoke tears
What a lovely memory... All happiness to you and your family
Aww my son would have been a few days before turning one and I never missed David Letterman during those years. Time goes by so face.
Beautiful cover of Neil Young song !
How beautiful. Thank you for sharing. This was glorious, heartbreaking. One of my favourite songs elevated by those goddesses. Letterman has always brought such gems as these to light.
How beautifully soothing. I just happened on this and what a treat it was. Just lovely.
Amazing. Three awesomely talented women whose music I grew up on. Wow.
Played Trio 'til it fell apart, Trio 2 suffered the same fate. Absolute perfection. Best example of flawless harmony I've ever heard. Thank you, ladies.
Hello dear,how are you doing,how is the weather over there,can i be your friend if you don't mind?
You might know this?! but Emmylou released a bunch of other songs not found on the first two albums! for free! you tube them as they are wonderful!
Dolly singing solo, and then Linda's beautiful alto voice comes in. Oh, how l love her voice. One of the few singers I can actually listen to the whole album/CD. All three are wonderful in their own right. Even better together. Thankyou U-tube.
They harmonize like the female version of the Bee Gees, sounding like one voice at times, and at others you hear the differences in their voice on the same note at the same moment. No auto tune required or over dubbing. Just perfection.
These amazing women should preserved for all time. The ultimate in musical harmony. Neil Young never wrote the song to be sung this way but now, he must have wished he had! If only these wonderful ladies (and I) could survive another decade or two.
Gives me chills. So thankful that this treasure has been preserved.
Wow. No Autotune just real talent, beauty and artistry. Thank you so much ladies.
The angels in Heaven will sound like These Ladies. In our darkest hour hour God sends a light.
Amen
Agree!
There are no gods or angels. There is talent.
Fuck NATO that night they started to bomb us
On a tv show?
I am a 67 year old man with tears streaming down my face!
Yup 😭
@@luv2cook. guess we are human, pass the kleenex
I am 63 and reacted in exactly the same way. What a wonderful song rendition.
😭😭😭
Oh please.
Oh, wow -- thank you, life, for letting me witness this.
No one better than Linda. Bringsme to tears every time. The collaboration is genius and the best ever. Crystal clear angels.
There is not a single thing about this that isn't just....perfect.
Sean Cruse I didn't care for the change in lyrics to apparently appease the network but the singing was beautiful.
Flying Mother Nature's silver seed to a new home in the sun. Not the best choice. It's very hot. I'm from Canada, and Neal Young was great, but I always found the lyrics to this song rather silly. The girls sounded excellent, though!
@Midnight Rider Well, yeah. Everything needs more cowbell, especially cows. Goes without saying.
3 of the most talented female vocalists. What a beatific arraignment.
lisa caron, Jim Morrison would have sung it the right way!
When a combination of voices makes a man tear up. That is awesome .
Hello, how are you doing?
Emmylou Harris is the best harmonizer of all time. I have heard her harmonize with so many different singers and she is always perfection.
Love her❤
Totally agree ❤
They blend so well, yet i could hear each one too...so amazing to take a trip with them🦋
How could anyone dislike this performance? This was beautiful.
538 people don't like talent.
@@WadeKingston well said!
There are a lot of kids online that just go around giving thumbs down to anything that isn't auto tune and twerking.
Beyond talent 🎶
Hi Josephine hope you're okay?
I’m 68. After the Gold Rush is one of my favorite albums. I heard this version from their CD many years ago. It is the most stunning, beautiful piece of music I have heard. To hear it done live brought tears to my eyes. The most beautiful voices in perfect harmony.
Most sing what they think they can. Ronstadt sang what she wanted, with who she wanted, when she wanted and how she wanted. Glorious flexible lead singer and a harmonizer extrordinaire. Linda did all the vocal arrangements often encouraging the remarkable Dolly and Emmy Lou to shine on TRIO. She also produced an entire album with that odd instrument - Glass Armónica.
Three absolute legends, .massive talents and tightest harmonies. Wonderful
The song Paul's band is playing at the opening is Now That We Found Love by Heavy D and the Boys. Was wracking my brain for a few minutes trying to remember!
3 of my favorite ladies! What wonderful voices! No one will EVER be better! What a song, made me cry!
Hello Rhonda
How are you doing today?
Three angels, so different but so perfect each one.
I saw this when it originally aired. Little did I know I'd be able to watch it again, a quarter century later.
What a beautiful song ! Made me get emotional for some reason. They sound like Angels singing from Heaven
I am thankful, so thankful, that these three collaborated and made some cds while Linda Ronstandt still could sing.
Hi Sherry hope you're okay?
One of Neil Young's most incredible songs, sung the way it deserves to be...
didnt realize it was one of neil's songs
Linda sang harmony on Neil's "Heart of Gold" song, too.
You mean by agreeing to the butchering of the lyrics because of some bogus sense of petty morality? I thought Jim Morrison killed that puritanical nonsense in the 60s .
@@creggsteffler9001 yep she sure did
@@teresalinton5898 he is a prolific songwriter.
Beautiful. It’s hard to believe Emmylou was their ‘bass’ singer.
It took my many times listening to this masterpiece to realize the high harmony was Linda's! I guess I usually had my eyes closed, floating away, and didn't watch the video. There's a brief two part harmony at about 2:26 where it shows only Linda and Dolly singing. I don't think I ever appreciated that she had that kind of range. I suppose that's usually the domain of background singers, and she alway sang lead. What an instrument she had.
I was really surprised by that, because in some of the other clips of the three of them, she sings the low harmony. Linda has an incredible range!
I've been listening since I was a a child in the 70's to Linda's gift. I'm a professional vocalist and I'm sooooo glad I lived in the same era and was able to see her live.
Magnificent women! Love this! Thank you!
Hello Renee
How are you doing today?
I can’t think of any singers today that can match these three ladies. I mean they are F-ing legends and 100 years from now people will still be listening to their bodies of work because they have once in a lifetime talent, true musicians
This is so beautiful it brought tears of elation to my eyes.
Dolly always brings love and a feeling of positive comfort in everything she sings….this song sounds magical with these three that compliment each other one million percent.
Absolutely beautiful ❤❤❤
Hello Jane
How are you doing today?
The most beautiful combination in country music...pure talent...never get tired of listening their melodies...
The nostalgia beauty of this performance is like a punch in the gut. We have three ladies I hold dear to my heart singing in wonderful harmony a Neil Young song from my youth. I think I sprung a leak out the corner of my eye.
Just speechless..............these women and their voices are just incredible...WOW, just WOW
Amazing talent…..their all holding back….Anyone of the three could belt it out…..Great trio….2022 still relevant……
Every now and then amongst all of the crap on UA-cam a gem like this comes along.
This turned up in my recommendations again, after a year. It's still brilliant.
Still amazing in 2023.
Lovely women great singers and great tribute to Neil Young . Sad our planet hasn't yet been sung back to health.
Just pure singing! Thank you Ladies!
Hi Suzanne hope you're okay?
This song brought me to tears, in a good way. These three women did an awesome job with it. As a fan of all three, when I found this video, I automatically knew it would sound awesome. So glad I found it.
The song is very powerful, and gets me in my heart. I love this, and I love all of these beautiful ladies.
Beautiful!! I loved Linda Ronstadt when I was a kid.
I love it when there is so much talent around that magic suddenly appears. It doesn't happen often enough.
All I can do is close my eyes and ride my chills! ❤️🔥2022
So sorry for the infringe on your privacy. Beautiful song. Hello
What a beautiful cover of a wonderful piece by the great Neil Young! I've loved everything Trio ever did.
The harmony makes my hair stand, sends tingles down my spine, gives me goose bumps and fills my heart with wonder every time I hear this song. Linda’s and Emmy’s harmony is out of this world. Only these three legends can sound so surreal and magical.
Excellent isn't enough to describe how beautiful that was.
So lovely to hear Linda singing pure soprano. Three gorgeous singers!
Amazing to hear these angels singing an Neil Young classic.
WOW voices of angels.....................Ive heard Linda belt out 'Blue Bayou' but she proves she can do the quiet pieces too. How beautiful.
Wow I'm still listing in 2021. What a beautiful song by three beautiful ladies. No frills, just raw talent. Thank you so much for posting this!
Also listening in 2022. And I commented there was no Autotune BEFORE I read all comments -- others said it first. Their voices together are pure Heaven.
The three absolute queens of country music.
Ronstadt's voice on "Telling Me Lies" from the 1st TRIO is killer. This is pretty damn beautiful as well. Linda and Neil Young were very good friends.
The best year of my life. I was nine years old and with my mom in Larnaca Cyprys. Spring 1999 started war in my country Yugoslavia. Never new untill know this Masterpice was made the same time. I so much love this thrio, ecpecialy Linda. I wish all the best for herr. If she reads this I am sending her love.
Absolutely beautiful ❤ I remember watching. Nothing like it.
Hello Susan
How are you doing today?
Divine Trio.... Linda anchoring like no one could. Simply breathtaking.
I think of Linda now and then and feel so sad we won’t ever hear her sing again........Parkinsons is such a cruel illness it certainly robbed us of a pearl who really did sing songs for the lost and the lonely
But I saw her interviewed a while ago on the Tavis Smiley show. She talked about her disease. I don't even know if I could be as humble as she was, and I'd been through some pretty rough times. Linda is a class act and quite a lady. I was inspired by her wisdom ..
John Boyle I know I think of her too and feel that same sadness
I think Linda Ronstadt is one of the classiest acts ever to come out of the States. Eloquent,charming,humble,kind,,generous warm compassionate,considerate and a voice ,a voice that has reduced me to tears on so many occasions.She really is a national treasure .
Just PERFECT
Jungle fever did her in..very sad...
These three women had strong shemistry and love for one another. They were just wonderful as a trio and stars as solo artists. Linda Ronstadt’s vocal capabilities were pure and confident. A phenomena we may never see again.
Very true and Dolly never tries to over shadow people but her voice… and her person…. I’m sure these wonderful ladies could each sing a song on their own I mean I’d like to hear that
@@Cathy7167 I have been in love with everything about Dolly forever. A long happy forever. Most of all I love her personality. Generous, loving, loves seeing others shine. No jealousy, no false pride, never a harsh word, sees good in everyone and everything. Most of all, genuine. Have I overdone it? No. What a song writer. One of my favorites is “The Bridge”.
Not seen this before. What a delight, angelic. Thank you
Hi Pauline hope you're okay?