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WATCH: Dolly Parton And Patti LaBelle Sing And Make Music With Their Long Nails

by Lauren Novak

Published October 7, 2020

Dolly Parton and Patti LaBelle make music with their nails

A video clip from 1987 recently went viral again. In the clip, famed singers Dolly Parton and Patti LaBelle make music together in a very unusual way. They both use their long acrylic nails to make music and it actually sounds pretty good!

In the clip, Dolly says, “I write a lot of songs when I don’t have my guitar. I beat around on the dashboard of my car when I’m riding around writing a song. But then I have a little rhythm that we can do with these acrylic nails.”

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Patti LaBelle and Dolly Parton make beautiful music using… their nails?!

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Making music with their nails / YouTube Screenshot

Dolly proceeds to show Patti how she does it and of course, Patti can do it too, with ease! They begin to sing a bit of the song “Shortnin’ Bread,” with Patti doing a solo part. Last year, Dolly talked to Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show about using her long nails to make music.

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Dolly and Patti / YouTube Screenshot

She admitted that she actually used her nails to form the beat for her popular hit, “9 to 5.” You probably know the rhythm! She said, “When I wrote this song, I actually used my nails on the set when I was writing it. I did, because they make noise and it sounded like a typewriter to me.”

Watch the clip of Dolly and Patti below! It is sure to make your day:

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