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There is hardly a jukebox in the U.S. that will not disgorge one or two records by Guitarist Les Paul, alone or with his singing wife Mary Ford. So far this year, Paul and Ford have turned out about one bestseller a month.-If they keep it up, they will sell close to 6,000,000 records before the year is over-and that's tops in Tin Pan Alley's books. One secret of their success is a tape recorder on which Paul dubs multiple guitar and vocal passages, layer-cake style. The result is a reverberating...
...Said Red, as quiet and genial as ever: "One of us will just do something, and the others will dig it and remember. We've had only two rehearsals, and on the second one we did nothing but sit around and talk." With a feather-fingered young guitarist named Tal Farlow, who after two years plays as if he is reading Red's mind, and a bass player (Clyde Lombardy) who is always there with the beat, everything they touched sounded like softly accented conversation on a bench in the park...
Charley Christian, Jazz Immortal (Esoteric; 2 sides LP). A little of the disorganized noise from Minton's Playhouse in Harlem, where bop came into its own, plus some agile string-picking by the late great Goodman guitarist...
...assets include a suave platform manner perfected at innumerable Rotary lunches, nimble eyebrows, a vibrant voice that radiates sincerity. Seated at a circular table, looking like a cross between an older Fred Allen and the late O. O. Mclntyre, he recites his poems, listens contentedly to ballad-singing Guitarist Paul Arnold, or makes small talk with a wholesome-looking young woman named Rachel Stevenson, who occasionally pours coffee. Sometimes a guest sits in, but "we never have a celebrity, just some homey type with a warm, interesting human story...
Showtime . . . U.S.A. (Sun. 7:30 p.m., ABC). Comedienne Beatrice Kaye and Guitarist Andres Segovia...