Rosey Grier is actress Pam Grier's cousin and became an ordained Christian minister who'd previously played professional football for the Los Angeles Rams, took down assassin Sirhan Sirhan, acted and hosted his own television show in the 70s, was a macrame enthusiast and wrote a book called Rosey Grier's Needlepoint for Men!!! On top of all that Rosey Grier recorded as a singer for various labels through the 60s and 70s, including this song in 1974, written and produced by Jeff Barry (half of the of successful songwriting duo Barry/Greenwich ). The hard rock band NAZARETH covered You're The Violin on their 1976 album "Close Enough For Rock 'N' Roll" (Nazareth also released the song as a single in the UK).
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