# are they lip-synching?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-they-lip-synching/482733
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [January 23, 2009, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-they-lip-synching/482733 "2009-01-23T23:35:52Z")
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### Author: ![johnspartan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a183cd/32.png) [@johnspartan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnspartan)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2009, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-they-lip-synching/482733/1 "2009-01-23T23:35:52Z")

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[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Hq1fpN1qWv8/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AG-AoAC8AGKAgwIABABGGYgZihmMA8=&rs=AOn4CLATIMO-6T2HO8RxHiVwblnBkZvbfA "The Buckinghams - Kind Of A Drag") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq1fpN1qWv8)

Looks like a live performance… sounds like the recorded version… I don’t see any horns and there’s obviously brass in the song… but when they zoom in on the keyboardist it seems pretty convincingly synced up… I don’t see any mics but I suppose even in the early 60s they used boom mics sometimes.

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### Author: ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2009, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-they-lip-synching/482733/2 "2009-01-23T23:43:40Z")

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Totally lip-synched. Obviously they’re not really playing: the instruments aren’t plugged in, and the drummer doesn’t even have a kit. The vocals sound too much like the record to be live.