Search Details

Word: les (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The New Sound | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

Just One More Chance (Les Paul and Mary Ford; Capitol). An oldtimer, given the Paul-Ford "new sound" treatment (see above). On the second side, Paul's instrumental version of Jazz Me Blues seems to have enough guitars to outfit the King Ranch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Oct. 29, 1951 | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

...Degas & Les Petits Rats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 22, 1951 | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

...LES BARNARD...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 15, 1951 | 10/15/1951 | See Source »

...Record of the Year": How High the Moon (The Les Paul-Mary Ford version...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Disk Jockey Poll | 9/24/1951 | See Source »

Previous | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 77 | 78 | 79 | 80 | 81 | 82 | 83 | 84 | 85 | 86 | Next