The Les Paul and Mary Ford at Home TV show, from 1955...they do a great song,

[old mark]

"Alabamy Bound"...Les was one of my early inspirations, and one of the best guitarists of the pre-rock n roll era...also an extremely prolific inventor ;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYlG7qb3iCs


Great guitar, and all the music in the background is Les overdubbing himself, something he invented, too...He played live till age 94, his last club gig a few weeks before he died.
Link: and another Les Paul program, from a few years ago, Chasing Sound, about Les's career and some great music.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP7qI5RVtxw&feature=related


Enjoy.

mark

[kayakjohnny]

1. Thanks, Mark. I did enjoy.

They also did a wonderful one called, "How High The Moon".

That one is a lot of fun as well.

They were great together!

Thanks for posting this.

Cheers.

[madrchsod]

2. i remember watching that tv show...

plus the larry welks show...i could stay up late and watch the show with my grandmother.

[MrScorpio]

3. One of my faves

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng8a5Df2V50

[Kat45]

4. Have you seen Jeff Beck's Les Paul tribute?

It's been on PBS quite a bit. Imelda May sings a number of the songs, and Brian Setzer and Trombone Shorty are also involved in that show. He's doing a Les Paul Tribute tour and I have tickets for the show here in March, which I'm looking forward to. I also got the CD of the PBS show when I made a PBS donation during the pledge show, but I haven't had a chance to play it yet.

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. Wow...now you're talking nostalgia!

I never saw them on tv but heard them on radio in the 50's.
Nice clip....thanks.

[kentauros]

6. That was great!

Thanks :D

I decided to see what WFMU's "Beware of the Blog" had on them and found the following:

Tico Tico (mp3-link)
From 61 versions of Tico Tico

[old mark]

7. Here's 2 more- Les live at the Irridium Jazz Club in NYC at age 88...

He played there every Monday night till few weeks before his death in 2009 :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsqmY2-R6vk


And jamming onstage with Jeff Beck...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrC_oqWq2pU&feature=related


Mark

[6000eliot]

8. I read that he had a mic set up in the kitchen

so that when he was recording in the basement, Mary could add vocals as she did the dishes. I'm not sure if that's true. She overdubbed all of the vocal parts on their recordings too, though.

[Joe Fields]

9. Thanks. That was great ! Believe it or not, my dad turned me on to him.

My father had quite a record collection (those 1/4 inch thick wax records that were quite brittle) of Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa, etc... And mixed in were several Les Paul, Mary Ford songs. How could a young man growing up on rock and roll not appreciate Les Paul's guitar virtuosity?

[old mark]

10. I'm amazed that people remember this show...It is very refreshing

compared to some of today's stuff...


mark