So incredible. History captured on video. The double-tracking on this tune is just amazing. The way Mary's voice sails over Les' guitars at 1:48 is absolutely awesome and blows my mind every time I hear it. I feel like I'm in heaven. I'm in love.
what amazes me about this is, yes Les has to be the greatest guitarist, but Mary is singing to it and doing a great job. Most singers couldn't do that!
Les Paul played music for 81 of his 94 years and started playing Harmonica at age 13 and then the guitar around the age of 15. Cant beat that for a career in music...
Read his Biography on Wikipedia
His later years he played at a club in New York every week.
No like they said it was the overdubs!! They played again, so now they had a total of 26 recording, the 12 of Mary and the 12 of Les then the two they just performed her.
consider the cars were mostly 6 cylinders and low compression without any safety provisions when this was made.jets had just been presented.almost no computers(the USA had an experimental),dial phones,black and white TV.no remotes,no satellites or GPS.then here comes Les Paul who actually made his first electric guitar out of a hunk of 4x4.and then hooked up with this great voice(Mary Ford).for this time frame it was way futuristic.very kool!
Pretty much all soundies were lip synced and faked...but still ...you got to see the artist preform. Its common knowledge that Marys sister sang back stage on many live shows a lot of the time to help simulate the recordings live.
When you think about it, Ella Fitzgerald's Hit Version of 'How High the Moon' comes from Mary and Les. Moreover, the multi-tracking and live layering we see in Rock (think the 6 guitars on Lalya) as well as the substantive layering we see in bee-bop (Bird's Ah Lew -Cha), and the studiio art of producer-performers like Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits) all have seminal histories in this track. Sometimes we are blessed with sheer Genius. Les Paul was such a blessing.
Rick Harrison from Porn stars just bought one of the most earliest LES PAULS GUITARS from MARRY FORDS NEPHEW with all the proof you need for a staggering 95,000 and it looks nothing like the guitar we see them using because in the written document from gibson it states LES didnot like the design
@sheddski I saw that episode. I have my doubts about that show; because who would bring Mary Ford's guitar to a pawnshop? Try Sotheby's or Christie's, and you'd be making well into the six figures. Or fro that matter the Hard Rock guys, they'd have to be given valium.
I have a Ford Amp named after Mary Ford ...era 1954 ... it is worth alot !! And I won't sell it unless the right pricer comes along .. It has 1 8" speaker and tremelo and thats it oh and a volume button and of course Ford written in template across the front with the old weave screening !
@inkey2 Sorry. Didn't watch tv then. Much less Mod Squad. Too busy surfing, camping etc. I was in my early 20s. Didn't know your age either. At that age they'll shun you for wearing the wrong shoes. Lol
@kellycalk they prerecorded 12 tracks of mary's singing, and 12 tracks of guitar playing, which is 24 tracks, or parts. all have a slight difference, because they haven't made double tracking or chorus, but i guess its overdubbing but not really.
@inkey2 You probably weren't shunned for being uncool but because you made people nervous. Is he a cop? I used drugs recreationally for 40 yrs. My rules were eat, sleep, work and then fun. You have to know when to STOP! If you don't there's a law called natural selection.
@whemadre you are absolutely wrong....suddenly people I knew since childhood were coming down real hard on me because I did not use drugs.....at 15 years old I think they would know I wasn't a cop. I think you have been watching too many "Mod Squad" reruns
@inkey2 The 60s and 70s only added a few more drugs to a variety of drugs that had been around for centuries such as alcohol and tobacco which kill more people than all the other illegal drugs together, opium , heroin, marijuana and a variety of psychoactive plants. The only new drugs were chemical psychedelics and speed. The problem isn't the drugs it's the people's upbringing.
The sixties weren't worse than now whemadre. They made the ruin of "now" possible. I agree with inky when he or she said that hippie movement ruined an orderly society. Morals existed then...right and wrong were clearly defined. Look what our sexual "liberation" has gotten us. Too many children having children who can't or won't raise them.. The new millenium is no better at all.
les paul was quoted as to he never got into drugs as the others did. here he's using the lespaulverizer i think. i just picked up the 90th birthday cd and he talks about it. its like a '50's midi sequencer
@Guitardude8794 People have gotten high since beginning of time. In the 50s musicians used heroin like it was candy and everybody else drank constantly. Today people use all the drugs of the 60s plus cocaine, extasy, meth and crack. What makes the 60s worse?
@whemadre I'll tell you what made the 60s worse.....illegal drug use finally morphed into the main stream,bigger population of surbuban America. What was once only the habit of the isolated inner cities turned into a pandemic. Also in the 1950s it wasn't glorified in the movies like it was in the 60s and early 70s.....suddenly if you weren't a drug user you were as they said back then "un-cool". People would actually shun you if you did not use drugs....I remember it all too well
@Guitardude8794 well what i meant was that back then, the world was so uptight and the hippies revolutionized the sexual world and liberated people of their sexuality
@MyGodzilla99 i lived through the 50s, 60s etc.......looking back at it all from the advantage of time the 60s were a total waste.....so much of the hippy movement was mired in "drug worship", destroying an orderly society and "ripping off the man"......"the man" being anything from corporate America to the guy who was barely making it who owned a small music shop or ice cream shop. Being stinkey, stoned and messy was the badge of honor for them......I remember it well
@MyGodzilla99 were you even alive during the hippy era?......you can't go by the idylistic propaganda shown in documentaries on youtube. The hippy era was an era of skyrocketing teen pregnancy, sexually transmitted disease, drug over doses, kids abandoning their education to live in filthy unorganized communes many of which were run by either crazy or unscrupulous cult leaders.......I saw many, many lives ruined and "ended"
Les is such a funny guy. He used to like to pull the guitar cord out of the amp of people he was on stage with while they were playing a solo. He did it to Jeff Beck the first time they played together. Such a great sense of humor.
Wow...
chg657 1 day ago
Smokin'!
solemoose 1 week ago
2:30 coolest fucking thing I've ever seen.
zplnrlz 1 week ago
So incredible. History captured on video. The double-tracking on this tune is just amazing. The way Mary's voice sails over Les' guitars at 1:48 is absolutely awesome and blows my mind every time I hear it. I feel like I'm in heaven. I'm in love.
markybgoode 1 week ago
Wow!!!Nervous! (Had to be to keep that tempo) We all know what they did (but maybe not how)...All I can say is...Thanx.
WaldoJeffers10 1 week ago
what amazes me about this is, yes Les has to be the greatest guitarist, but Mary is singing to it and doing a great job. Most singers couldn't do that!
califdad4 2 weeks ago
Shredding licks in the fifties.
Smooth0vibrations 3 weeks ago
@1:16 Les begins to show the world how it's gonna be done for the next 4, 5, 6? decades. He is THE GUITAR MAN! RIP Les.
brotherWes 3 weeks ago
Buddy Holly got the idea of Over Dubbing from Les Paul and used it on many of his albums..
Les Paul, Innovator, Inventor, Musician... Played Harmonica, Banjo, and Guitar
sixtiesforever1966 3 weeks ago
Les Paul played music for 81 of his 94 years and started playing Harmonica at age 13 and then the guitar around the age of 15. Cant beat that for a career in music...
Read his Biography on Wikipedia
His later years he played at a club in New York every week.
sixtiesforever1966 3 weeks ago
No like they said it was the overdubs!! They played again, so now they had a total of 26 recording, the 12 of Mary and the 12 of Les then the two they just performed her.
CSchneible08 4 weeks ago
Never mind, on second watch it was faked. Haha
loganarchermusic 4 weeks ago
I don't think this was faked. They had the tape deck with them, it's essentially like playing along to the track, which had tons of overdubs.
loganarchermusic 4 weeks ago
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consider the cars were mostly 6 cylinders and low compression without any safety provisions when this was made.jets had just been presented.almost no computers(the USA had an experimental),dial phones,black and white TV.no remotes,no satellites or GPS.then here comes Les Paul who actually made his first electric guitar out of a hunk of 4x4.and then hooked up with this great voice(Mary Ford).for this time frame it was way futuristic.very kool!
nomiclas 1 month ago
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nomiclas 1 month ago
Les Paul in person! What a privilege to see this man making musical history....
jukeboxboy78 1 month ago
Pretty much all soundies were lip synced and faked...but still ...you got to see the artist preform. Its common knowledge that Marys sister sang back stage on many live shows a lot of the time to help simulate the recordings live.
23L 1 month ago
Mary was lip synching this whole song. She couldn't fake it good at all; so apparent at the very end.
lannlann 1 month ago
When you think about it, Ella Fitzgerald's Hit Version of 'How High the Moon' comes from Mary and Les. Moreover, the multi-tracking and live layering we see in Rock (think the 6 guitars on Lalya) as well as the substantive layering we see in bee-bop (Bird's Ah Lew -Cha), and the studiio art of producer-performers like Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits) all have seminal histories in this track. Sometimes we are blessed with sheer Genius. Les Paul was such a blessing.
GayatriMantra108 1 month ago
Rick Harrison from Porn stars just bought one of the most earliest LES PAULS GUITARS from MARRY FORDS NEPHEW with all the proof you need for a staggering 95,000 and it looks nothing like the guitar we see them using because in the written document from gibson it states LES didnot like the design
sheddski 1 month ago
@sheddski I saw that episode. I have my doubts about that show; because who would bring Mary Ford's guitar to a pawnshop? Try Sotheby's or Christie's, and you'd be making well into the six figures. Or fro that matter the Hard Rock guys, they'd have to be given valium.
dennykdoe 1 month ago
i am so sorry that was a typo ...it has an 8 " speaker ! and silver woven cloth across the front ! my apologies !
dturner5923 1 month ago
I have a Ford Amp named after Mary Ford ...era 1954 ... it is worth alot !! And I won't sell it unless the right pricer comes along .. It has 1 8" speaker and tremelo and thats it oh and a volume button and of course Ford written in template across the front with the old weave screening !
dturner5923 1 month ago
Make Lady Gagme do this shit live without the "editiing"...FAIL!
spahjrp 2 months ago
this was LIVE...no editing...no video bullshitting
spahjrp 2 months ago
so many echoes of Rockabilly/Rocknroll in Les's Guitar playing..such an innovator!
johnnyweep59 3 months ago
is that Alistair Cookie?
issurchaim 4 months ago
@inkey2 Sorry. Didn't watch tv then. Much less Mod Squad. Too busy surfing, camping etc. I was in my early 20s. Didn't know your age either. At that age they'll shun you for wearing the wrong shoes. Lol
whemadre 5 months ago
Whats Les on about with the 24 parts? are they over dubbling the track 24 times?
kellycalk 6 months ago
@kellycalk they prerecorded 12 tracks of mary's singing, and 12 tracks of guitar playing, which is 24 tracks, or parts. all have a slight difference, because they haven't made double tracking or chorus, but i guess its overdubbing but not really.
azninfernostudios 5 months ago
@kellycalk yep
JustMrVBS 5 months ago
Wow! Didn't know that in-ear monitoring is already vintage!
MiipToop 6 months ago
@inkey2 You probably weren't shunned for being uncool but because you made people nervous. Is he a cop? I used drugs recreationally for 40 yrs. My rules were eat, sleep, work and then fun. You have to know when to STOP! If you don't there's a law called natural selection.
whemadre 7 months ago
@whemadre you are absolutely wrong....suddenly people I knew since childhood were coming down real hard on me because I did not use drugs.....at 15 years old I think they would know I wasn't a cop. I think you have been watching too many "Mod Squad" reruns
inkey2 5 months ago
@inkey2 The 60s and 70s only added a few more drugs to a variety of drugs that had been around for centuries such as alcohol and tobacco which kill more people than all the other illegal drugs together, opium , heroin, marijuana and a variety of psychoactive plants. The only new drugs were chemical psychedelics and speed. The problem isn't the drugs it's the people's upbringing.
whemadre 7 months ago
That´s music! and the way they made records .. that was the music MUSIC itself and not the rubbish they make today!
MANUELFARINELLI 7 months ago
The sixties weren't worse than now whemadre. They made the ruin of "now" possible. I agree with inky when he or she said that hippie movement ruined an orderly society. Morals existed then...right and wrong were clearly defined. Look what our sexual "liberation" has gotten us. Too many children having children who can't or won't raise them.. The new millenium is no better at all.
tchrbaby 8 months ago
I love his fancy show-off slide over the top near the end!
2fellini 9 months ago
if anyone watches the tom and jerry cartoon pecos pest you will hear a little of how high the moon
cavalierfan1995 10 months ago
the TESLA of MUSIC ;)
djrichierich706 10 months ago
THANK YOU LES PAUL for your innovation and musicality.
You are the Father of Modern Recording.
stillphil 10 months ago
les paul was quoted as to he never got into drugs as the others did. here he's using the lespaulverizer i think. i just picked up the 90th birthday cd and he talks about it. its like a '50's midi sequencer
TheMaceymacreary 11 months ago
@Guitardude8794 People have gotten high since beginning of time. In the 50s musicians used heroin like it was candy and everybody else drank constantly. Today people use all the drugs of the 60s plus cocaine, extasy, meth and crack. What makes the 60s worse?
whemadre 11 months ago
@whemadre I'll tell you what made the 60s worse.....illegal drug use finally morphed into the main stream,bigger population of surbuban America. What was once only the habit of the isolated inner cities turned into a pandemic. Also in the 1950s it wasn't glorified in the movies like it was in the 60s and early 70s.....suddenly if you weren't a drug user you were as they said back then "un-cool". People would actually shun you if you did not use drugs....I remember it all too well
inkey2 7 months ago
Loved this song ever since I first heard it as a kid in the 50s. Les was a genius and a nice guy. Just the opposite of today's music.
whemadre 11 months ago
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am i the only one here that finds the 30s-50s kinda creepy? i mean the music, WWII, black and white!? man, i'm glad the hippies showed up :)
MyGodzilla99 1 year ago
@MyGodzilla99 Fuck the hippes they were nothing but druggies and idiots. The 60's was horrible. This is WAY better
Guitardude8794 11 months ago
@Guitardude8794 well what i meant was that back then, the world was so uptight and the hippies revolutionized the sexual world and liberated people of their sexuality
MyGodzilla99 11 months ago
@MyGodzilla99 i lived through the 50s, 60s etc.......looking back at it all from the advantage of time the 60s were a total waste.....so much of the hippy movement was mired in "drug worship", destroying an orderly society and "ripping off the man"......"the man" being anything from corporate America to the guy who was barely making it who owned a small music shop or ice cream shop. Being stinkey, stoned and messy was the badge of honor for them......I remember it well
inkey2 10 months ago
@inkey2 well that's just my opinion :D
MyGodzilla99 10 months ago
@MyGodzilla99 were you even alive during the hippy era?......you can't go by the idylistic propaganda shown in documentaries on youtube. The hippy era was an era of skyrocketing teen pregnancy, sexually transmitted disease, drug over doses, kids abandoning their education to live in filthy unorganized communes many of which were run by either crazy or unscrupulous cult leaders.......I saw many, many lives ruined and "ended"
inkey2 10 months ago
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MyGodzilla99 1 year ago
they were great
Prancer1231 1 year ago
"Very good."
lol
Les is such a funny guy. He used to like to pull the guitar cord out of the amp of people he was on stage with while they were playing a solo. He did it to Jeff Beck the first time they played together. Such a great sense of humor.
DwayneJKing 1 year ago
Sweeeeet!
RobRobertTheMusicMan 1 year ago
Les was definately influenced by Django Reindhart
70marco80 1 year ago 3
If I could be reincarnated, I'd like to come back as Les Paul and play this song for the rest of my life ...
GregDad100 1 year ago
You mean to tell me this is is the only surviving track on the tube of Les and Mary doing 'How High the Moon' ?
I hope the greedy bastards that whined about copyright infringement choke on a page or two of bloodred ink filled ledgers.
louswire 1 year ago
fabulous!
sreneezig 1 year ago
Real Talent! And the GREAT LES PAUL!!! Great inventor and great great guitarist! WOW
ke1mc2 1 year ago
Mary Ford was sweet.
Barnekkid 1 year ago
Utterly enchanting! I am in LOVE with Mary!
thomasmoredamian 1 year ago
Heavenly!
thomasmoredamian 1 year ago
LesPaul was so far ahead of his time....like he leaped 50 years into the future of recording is a few years
inkey2 1 year ago 25
@inkey2 You got that right!
spahjrp 1 year ago
Les IS the father of rock!!
ILOVEYOUTOOUBE 1 year ago 20