The Mellotron Group

Waylon Jennings did it best IMO
 
 
In a message dated 7/29/2010 7:16:09 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
djacques@csulb.edu writes:

Story  has it when Jimmy Webb wrote MacArthur Park no one would record it 
(The  Association turned it down). So they found Richard Harris (a 
non-singing  actor) to record it. The rest is  history...