Paddy McAloon & Jimmy Webb - The Highwayman

[palmazou]

It's the very best version for me.... I didn't know the original one before I discovered this video, but this one is just magic !...just my 2 cents

[sproutyDP]

Dear God, can you arrange a 3 hour concert along the lines of this performance. Orchestra and 50/50 Sprout songs and Webb songs. Oh and Wendy Smith too !!

cheers m8

[mognor]

Paddy... best voice ever.

[troxxbury]

Best version of this song that I've heard. Nice variation with the two voices. Like the orchestra arrangement too.

[depsterboy]

is paddy a homo?

[stubbsflugel]

@depsterboy - who cares? ahole!

[akermagic21]

This is gold. Makes the version by The Highwaymen look/song silly. Paddy and Jimmy are awesome. The White Buffalo version is quite good too. Oh and Glen Campbell is brilliant in the live version.

[RadioRuderham]

What happened to the line

"The Bastards hung me back in '25'",

Why change it?

Great song.

Jim Webb on piano a god in song writers.

[TripeHoundRedux]

@RadioRuderham If you look at some other performances of this song by Webb he tends to not use that version of the line.

It gives, I think, a very different impression of the first incarnation of the character. In the Campbell/Highwaymen version he's a defiant bolshie sort of character while in the other version it's more like he was relived to be freed of the burden of being a criminal.

[johnbarkvedleirvik]

Love when Jimmy Webb sings, i like Paddy to but Jimmy makes it som great and i love his voice!!!

[spikerooney011]

Amazing........almost as good as Paddy's own lyrics, no disrespect intended, just awesome performance from both geneii. Has anyone ever written lyrics to match Cornfield Ablaze?

[BillKerney]

Johnathan Edwards, is that you?

[NotturnoBlues]

i like this version...And try sing a midi ...Words are entered in my hearth.......Bye From Genoa, Italy...(sorry for my poor english!!)

[lol6109]

this song was made for the highwaymen, and since it was a classic music song they chanced it to a country version... this version is very good to..

[analyzingfunny]

This is hidden perfection right under our noses. I was too young, I missed it.

[catinthemachine]

oh sure, when i would like to purchase a song i can't. totally par for me :'(

[joshua16219]

my last name is McAloon i may be related :O?

[1918teardrop]

Check out the Glen Campbell version with the South Dakota Symphony. It's awesome.

[ZJProz]

Jimmy and Paddy.....what a combo...

[Gvieto]

The song Highwayman is my favorite because it talks about life after death or honoring the fallen.

[freeinallthings]

I miss Johnny and Waylon

[BowTieGuyUK2000]

Whenm does this performance date from? Excellent..... and the orchestral arrangement is by George Martin!

[farrah89]

you guys should listen to White Buffalo Highway Man I find it's the best version of all, hands down !

[xTjPx]

Although i like this rendition, I prefer Jimmy and piano alone on this one.

Funny that the original lyric is omitted ( for the more sensitive listener I suppose).

Thanks for posting!

[akaSlayer88]

The first version I heard was The Highwaymen version, but I'm pretty sure I actually like this one better!

[jockan89]

Jimmy Webb is great! love this song

[SunRey69]

They have both a wonderfull voice.

[staralfur5]

anybody has a tabs for this song? Please help me, i want play this

[szpakmarc]

Dobry tekst, niezla muzyka - po prostu fajny kawalek.

[OwnedByMoomin]

hur jävla bra är inte det här då. kan ge upp en massa skit i livet o bara njuta av detta. fast sen vill jag iof ha tillbaka allt det där jag gett upp.. nä men jag menar va fan, det här är så jäkla skönt

[HardRoxxx555]

ive allways loved highwaymens version, but this is just incredible...maybe because its webbs song....

[Rondexix82]

Just magnificent....But i like Cash version better tho :)

[askmeicare]

A great songwriter....

[jbrad1211]

A great song, even though I don't believe in reincarnation...neither did Johnny Cash but he sang the heck out of it!

[vocalist1952]

A good version but hard to beat the brilliant version done by Glen Campbell with the Sioux Falls Symphony Orchestra.

[LilFrestyle]

the highwaymen changed this song alot actually lol

[johnlv12]

love it. But, does Paddy sing "along the coast road I did ride" in the second verse which is different from most other versions "along the coach roads I did ride"?

[CashPresley32]

Waylon, Willie, Johnny and Kris do this song the best.

[johnlv12]

this is probably the only song in my book that Jimmy sings really well. Glen Campbell's version is also better. so, I would rank The Highwaymen's version below those two.

[CashPresley32]

I would rank the Highwaymen's version above all the one's that you mentioned.

[raysteer]

I think Webb does it best by himself just on piano, the other guy¨s style doesn¨t sit with me and i¨m not keen on all those other instruments.

[sproutyDP]

" the other guy" wtf, that's GOD !

[raysteer]

Hey, sorry, no offense meant!

[analyzingfunny]

@sproutyDP Which guy guy one, guy two? Describe this man.

[kristavb]

@sproutyDP Right on.

[raysteer]

@sproutyDP "God" fluffed the phrasing on "wild Colorado", but there again, nobodies perfect (:

[raysteer]

They certainly do one of the two best versions! And having a singer for each character works realy well. I love Webb doing it alone, and i think Cambell would have been better of with less orchestra.

[CashPresley32]

Also they did more songs than that as the Highwaymen like Silver Stallion, The Last Cowboy Song, Desperados Waiting For A Train, Big River, etc etc.

[RhHR90]

Fantastic stuff - two of my heroes on one stage!

[jjsjeffjjsjeff]

Yuck!

[JamesPortland]

I disagree with you unbridledenthusiam, this version has a lot of feeling. Give it a chance, this is how Jimmy Webb wanted it preformed and it is every bit as good as "The Highwaymen" version, it is just different.

[szpakmarc]

In my opinion this is the best version "The highwayman", but we cant forget about Johny Cash version:)..

[JamesPortland]

I always thought the version with Willie, Johnny, Kris & Waylon was the best but these guys do an equally great version! It's different but they put a lot of feeling into it.

[crazytree]

the song was stripped of its harsh Americanism

[wichitalineman]

holy sh*t this is so beautiful, thanks for posting. this here became what appears to be my favourite youtube video over the past months.

[SunRey69]

This is simply wonderfull.

[szpakmarc]

Bardzo dobry kawałek.

[sproutyDP]

Class

[SEANBANOG4]

took me a couple of listens but i think im gettin it....nice

[vaccavo]

Both are perfect! Paddy's voice is soft. Jimmi's is powerful.

And if there is someone who disagrees, I respect thir opinion.

[ianclev]

This recording was made for an Irish music programme in either late '80's or early '90's. The conductor and orchestral arranger is Bill Whelan of Riverdance fame. I have this on the end of one of my many VHS tapes and have never been able to find it, so well done for posting it - you've made my day!

[PeterAkerberg]

It´s actually George Martins original orchestral arrangement they´re playing, right down to the sound of the mast breaking.

[AnselmGaynor]

It's from an RTE programme called 'An Eye On The Music' from about 1991, this YouTybe video clip of it was taken from a movie file I made from my original VHS tape of it. Glad people are enjoying it!

[LilacNell]

Goddamn, I think I've transcended all human feeling...

[StonefieldJim4]

By the way, I'm the 'Jim Williams' who made this clip available. No applause, please ;)

[andersen312]

this version sucks!

[hotbread]

Aow, goose skin!

[gazzo45]

One of the best songs the great Jimmy Webb ever wrote - and what an amazing lyric! Paddy is our own Jimmy Webb - a great songwriter who has unfortunately suffered from bad health in the last few years. I wish thes two great men well.

[ghostwolf1985]

This was not written by Jimmy "i love cock" Webb.

This was the Highwaymen.

Johnny Cash

Willie Nelson

Kris Kristofeson

Waylon Jennings

Proper Singer Songwriters

The Last Cowboys

R.I.P

Johnny and Waylon

[ajtrader100]

idiot. this was written by Webb and covered by the highwaymen.

Yest the highwaymen were amazing, but dont credit them with a song they didnt write.

just check wikipedia or something if you don't beleive me.

[gazzo45]

ghostwolf1985 - Thanks for the information regarding Jimmy Webb's sexuality - I honestly had no idea he was gay. Has anyone informed his wife and sons? And yes, this song was written by the great JW. The Highwaymen merely covered it - and their version was excellent.

[jsauly23]

haha what a mug, get your head outof your arse and do your research pal. yeh there version is grt, but webb is to be credited

[Sharkpuss]

Paddy McAloon is a genius...

[MuizeekPhanahtic]

Very pleasant duet. Both performers sounded great togther and the end result was a fine, passionate delivery on this goregeously written song. Most are familiar with it by the cover from 'The Highway Men' (featuring: Willie Nelson/Kris Kristofferson/Waylong Jennings/Johnny Cash). Personally, I like bother versions for I feel they each offer/harbor their own strength (depending on your mood at the time, what you're looking for). Webb has a real flair/talent for song composition and development.

[thepennywhistler]

was this arrangement ever recorded?

[Papermac]

Yes, it was. I recommend the compilation CD "Archive", which is a superb retrospective of Jimmy Webb's repertoire.

[StonefieldJim4]

Just to clarify, Papermac, are you saying this duet with McAloon is available on the album you mention? God, I hope so.

[Papermac]

No, I'm afraid it isn't. But the original 1977 recording (produced by George Martin) does have the same orchestration.

[denisebrown1956]

beautiful.

[williehackitt]

to great writers together magical

[davidthedirector]

Nice to see you re-emerge.

I, too, went through a period of gestation, after creation.

[palmazou]

So beautiful ! - I cried the first time I saw it....

[tressiter]

you are a beautiful person too, palmazou

[mekusho112]

Pure art. Music these days has really changed. This, this is real music pure tallent. I'm 17 by the way.

[NobblerBC]

Me too, I'm still crying now after Zifty Crillion times of seeing it, beautiful eh?

[SpoonEtunes]

SUPER Especially the full tilt orchestra!!!

[flaroid]

This is so awesome to hear AND see. We never really got much Sprout action stateside, and especially not in visual form, so these videos are a real treat. Thanks.

[NobblerBC]

Funny, I was a huge Prefab fan, I didn't know he'd hooked up with Jimmy Webb to do this until recently. Now, heh, well! What can you say? Best not, just listen, wonderful!