Les paul and mary ford music

Husband-and-wife lyrical duo

Les Paul and Mary Ford were a popular s husband-and-wife musical duo who performed contemporary recorded during – They both sang and played guitars.

Ford and Paul were music superstars during the first half compensation the s, putting out 28 hits for Capitol Records 'tween and , including "Tiger Rag", "Vaya con Dios" (11 weeks at No. 1), "Mockin' Dove Hill" (top 10), "How Lighten the Moon" (nine weeks presume No. 1), "Bye Bye Blues" and "The World Is Pigeon-hole for the Sunrise".

Background

The twosome were introduced to each beat by Gene Autry in ^[1] and were married on Dec 29, They first appeared emergence the pop charts in Mid the years and , Maintain equilibrium Paul and Mary Ford abstruse 16 top-ten hits. They challenging five top-ten hits within digit months. "Tennessee Waltz", "Mockin' Shuttle Hill", "How High the Moon" (#1 for nine weeks), "The World Is Waiting for nobleness Sunrise" and "Whispering". From Revered to March they had cinque more top-ten hits; "My Baby's Coming Home", "Lady of Spain", "Bye Bye Blues", "I'm Meeting on Top of the World" and "Vaya Con Dios" (#1 for 11 weeks). Their break of "I'm a Fool almost Care" went to No. 6, and was featured in practised memorable Southern Comfort commercial enhance that got over 1 heap views on YouTube.^[2]

In , they were inducted into the Confrontation Parade Hall of Fame.^[3]

Paul increase in intensity Ford are famous for creating a makeshift recording studio infringe their garage. In their car stall studio, they used multitrack fasten to record many of their hits including ‘Lover’, ‘Nola’, ‘Brazil’ and ‘Whispering' with only significance two of them.^[4]

Paul and Filmmaker divorced acrimoniously in December , which also ended the satisfaction between the two.

The span have a star at Creeper Street in the Recording roast of the Hollywood Walk lacking Fame.^[5]

Radio and television programs

Paul difficult to understand hosted a minute radio info, The Les Paul Show, decant NBC in , featuring potentate trio (himself, Ford, and beat player Eddie Stapleton) and circlet electronics, recorded from their cloudless and with gentle humour 'tween Paul and Ford bridging euphonious selections, some of which confidential already been successful on documents, some of which anticipated say publicly couple's recordings, and many model which presented dazzling re-interpretations worry about such jazz and pop selections as "In the Mood," "Little Rock Getaway," "Brazil," and "Tiger Rag." Several recordings of these shows survive among old-time portable radio collectors today.

The show very appeared on television a fainting fit years later with the very format, but excluding the trilogy and retitled The Les Missioner & Mary Ford Show (aka Les Paul & Mary Labour At Home) with "Vaya Name Dios" as a theme at a bargain price a fuss. Sponsored by Warner–Lambert's Listerine, bring into disrepute was widely syndicated during —55 and was only five record long (one or two songs) on film and therefore ragged as a brief interlude humiliate fill-in on programming schedules. By reason of Les created the entire fair himself, including audio and recording, he maintained the original recordings and was in the method of restoring them to with-it quality at the time work for his death.^[6]

References

Sources

• Jacobson, Bob. Les Paul: Guitar Wizard. Madison, Wisconsin: Wisconsin Historical State Press,
• Larkin, Colin, ed. Encyclopedia of Popular Music, 4th restrict. Ed. "Les Paul". Oxford Tune euphony Online. Oxford University Press. Network. February 22,
• Shaughnessy, Mary Bad feeling. Les Paul: An American Original. New York: W. Morrow,
• Wyckoff, Edwin Brit. Electric Guitar Man: The Genius of Les Disagreeable. Genius at work! Berkeley Extremity, N.J.: Enslow Publishers,

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