Jim does not sing on the opening chorus. You are hearing the Anita Kerr singers augmented by Winnifred Breast, the high soprano.

One thing I will point out is that the original version sounds rather anemic with the weak background strings and we made them fuller and added some embellishments and I think it sounds fuller on our overdub. I frankly am not impressed with how they did the strings on some of Jim's songs. They were using string players from the Nashville Symphony but on some songs the volume is too low; they were poorly mixed.