Here are the Seekers singing their 1967 hit "Georgy Girl" at some sort of amphitheater back then. Well, they're not really singing. They're lip-syncing to the record in what I'm sure was supposed to be a venue for live performing.
Or are they? Maybe they did perform it live at the show but someone took the record and laid it in over the film of the live performance. But I don't think so because the mouth movements are a little too perfect matching the record…and that bass player looks like he isn't even trying to look like he's really playing. But then we also don't seem to hear the orchestra behind them that seems to be playing along during portions of the song, though I think we do hear them playing the exit music. Would those violin players be playing along with a record? Would their microphones even be turned on during a needle-drop?
I always used to be amused when recording artists did lip-sync performances on TV shows and had to deal with the fact that at the end, the song didn't end. It faded out. So one person in the band would still be mouthing the words when others had given up and you can sometimes spot them realize they should still be moving their mouths and they resume. The Seekers get cut off pretty quickly at the end by a little fanfare note.
I dunno. We're not hearing them perform live but did the people in that audience hear them sing and play live? Hard to tell but I still like this song…
P.S., A Little Later: Ah, here's the answer, sent to me by my pal Kurt Busiek. Someone took the video of a live concert with live singing and laid in the record to create something more like a video. Thanks, Kurt. But I still think that bass player looks like he isn't playing…
