When he said "August 2020" it freaked me out WTF!?

@Wargasm644

4 жыл бұрын

😳 me too. Only a few days away

@carrots2793

3 жыл бұрын

bruh. O.O

@garyhenderson1717

3 жыл бұрын

Wow got a new one

@Tomorrow646

3 жыл бұрын

Right!!!!

@Pattern51lover

3 жыл бұрын

Ditto. Like, now what are we gonna listen to?

You're watching and hearing the Future being invented.

Her voice was that of an Angel. She could keep up with Les on the Guitar as well. Miss them both😔

Les was such an innovator, way before his time. Inspiration not only to all guitarists but all music....

Pioneers in multi track recording ... what a fabulous couple

Les Paul and Mary Ford, thanks for the post. Les, one of the great guitarists of all time, his technique and tone is unequalled by anyone.

I am in utter fascination at the history and talent going on here.

In 1953 people were criticizing Les Paul and Mary Ford for using electronic recording methods to simulate a much larger musical sound - several guitars and 3 to 4 voice chorus. If they had only known the future with "loopers", MIDI wave tables, and sound synthesis, the fact that the same woman performed all three parts of a 3 part harmony stacked on a single recording seems trivial today. Just goes to show that even in the 50's a small group of people who didn't understand one bit of what they were talking about could create hate and discontent because of ignorance and petty jealousy.

@bafolabi7

3 жыл бұрын

Wow, just realised this is the famous Les Paul after whom Gibson Les Paul Guitars are named. I'm not sure if he designed them, or if they were just named after him. Amazing player. Way ahead of his time. Funnily enough, I came across this video because I'm looking for a guitar loop effects box to buy. How things have changed with chips and integrated circuits since 1953!

@CrossCuntryFranco

3 жыл бұрын

@@bafolabi7 He helped design it, yes, as well as also play it throughout his life :)

@CrossCuntryFranco

3 жыл бұрын

Les himself would use a looper for the remainder of his life.

@srglzrmj

3 жыл бұрын

To be fair, the people who hated multitrack recording would also be hating on live looping, MIDI wave tables and all things technology

@ericdreizen1463

3 жыл бұрын

Perhaps the most imitated guitarist of the 20th century. Natural genius!

"...to come through in August 2020." Whew! We're almost done!

@keithadams812

4 жыл бұрын

Watching this in August 2020 that statement freaked me out

@christophej4923

3 жыл бұрын

@@keithadams812 me too ! ha ha

@tomlyons7891

3 жыл бұрын

Yep. That was 67 years ago. Yikes!

@thehumanityoflife6460

3 жыл бұрын

I gotta' stop watching 'BACK TO THE FUTURE' movies!

They were great. Les Paul was an innovator in the recording business not only guitar design. Not to mention a great guitarist. Truth is she was a very good guitarist herself.

Getting close to 2020 and all this time later there've been very few musicians who've made tracks this gorgeous.

@clapton79

7 жыл бұрын

I was just saying the same to my wife while watching this video. They were way ahead of their time

@precisionbrown6829

6 жыл бұрын

clapton79 That's why we buy les Paul's. He was a genius in the music category

@artivalys

6 жыл бұрын

Paul Chandler great

@tracer740

3 жыл бұрын

@Paul Chandler - Mah dear you said a mouful!

Les Paul was so innovative.... Especially for that time and age! I grew up listening to his music. My mother was a big fan of his music. Then, I became one as a very young boy.... I still love listening to this particular song. His version is between Jazz and Rock N' Roll.

I think people watching this who don't know that Les Paul INVENTED most of the technology on display in this. NO ONE was really doing this stuff before him. Les was so awesome, and Mary was such a great singer.

@RonaldVaughan

9 жыл бұрын

Dean Esmay that's for sure

@Holkie

8 жыл бұрын

+Dean Esmay (CalvinHobbes) So true. 8-)

@LetArtsLive

8 жыл бұрын

+Dean Esmay I was looking for the video where he has a guitar with all the sounds built in.Like 6 footswitches in one axe so cool.Gotta love Les Paul.@slash

@StJoseph777

8 жыл бұрын

LetArtsLive Oh you mean the Les Paulverizer? Just search for "Les Paulverizer".

@LetArtsLive

8 жыл бұрын

thanks i found it

I'm lucky we're on august of 2020, I've been listening to their 15M records

Respect to the pioneers! LEs and Mary were real risk takers, really they were several steps ahead in their time, advanced in the history of music!. Rock simply never happened without them.

@Juliaflo

7 жыл бұрын

You said it! Who needs......well, I will think of it and get back to you.

16 years later the Beatles recorded Abby Road with only an 8 track machine. Less was way ahead of his time. He started multi-tracking around 1948 with tape and way before that using disk on disk. They did a documentary called "Chasing Sound" that can be easily found on You Tube. I highly recommend it.

@damariszehner4438

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you. The Beatles were good, but they do not deserve the credit many people give them for inventing everything. Truth is, the Beatles absorbed a lot of what was around them. Les Paul, on the other hand, was a real innovator.

@adrinathegreat3095

5 жыл бұрын

4 people in the Beatles plus George Martin often played piano, no need for multitrack if you have a enough musicians and you can play in time, it just makes the recording process easier. Eg 1 person playing 8 instruments, instead of 8 people playing 1 instrument each

@Marcel_Audubon

5 жыл бұрын

everything isn't about the Beatles, ferchrissakes!

@Leofiora

4 жыл бұрын

Beatles, sSones and so many other musicians are overrated bands that were late to sell a commercial product very well prepared by record companies. Les Paul and several others could demonstrate a true talent live that none of those other musicians had or in studio, much less live

@crazycat1345

2 жыл бұрын

The Beatles never wrote abby road it was the tavistock institute that wrote the majority of their stuff. As well as the stones, kinks, the who, Micheal Jackson etc...

One of the most amazing musicians and inventor of that era 👍

One of the greatest guitar albums of all time, Chester and Lester❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Just a bit of heaven that has lasted for decades....the tunes are so fine...

One of the most important pieces of footage in existence as far as a how to overdub, how to sing and how to play the guitar.Absolutely historic!

Oh man!! Having just discovered this video today, I had to listen twice when he said "August 2020" to make sure I wasn't hallucinating (today being August 11, 2020) :-o!! :-D Great watching Les & Mary at work like that. Very fond memories of seeing Les Paul perform live at the Iridium Jazz Club in NYC years ago with a meet & greet after the show d:-)b

@anironiccoolness

3 жыл бұрын

Same

Love Mary's voice.

Les and Mary kick the critics in the butt.

Guy says "August 2020" in the first 30 seconds of this 1953 clip. Today is August 3rd 2020 Whoa ! no more mushroom's for me.

@anironiccoolness

3 жыл бұрын

Watching this as of the morning of the 19th.

It's August 2020 right now, that's strange that I came upon this video now

ABSOLUTE LEGENDS !

Most likely there is no person on television today with a tenth of the class of Alistair Cooke. Miss his gravitas.

This is one video anyone would be hard pressed to make a negative comment about. Not only is the music and technology great but that couple seem to really enjoy each other and they make what they are doing look easy.

How good is this! Legends both... the world owes so much to Les Paul...

Pure genious at work.

@keitsumura6046

6 жыл бұрын

Rob Weiss 0

Just fabulous, many thanks.

Oh my god what a voice

What pioneers they were!

Still amazing and always will be. thanks Les i keep my 57 Special close at all times.

Les Paul is awesome. they both are

’In August 2020’ so right now

What a genius! Les Paul!

Che meraviglia avervi ritrovato!

2023 and still great

august 2020 is just 4 month away now... back then it was still 67 years away. that blows my mind tbh

They were way ahead of their time!

This is amazing

The four songs they perform are "In the Good Old Summertime", "The Kangaroo", "Don'cha Hear Them Bells", and "How High the Moon". "The Kangaroo" and "Don'cha Hear Them Bells" were written by Les Paul. It was their current Capitol Records single, "The Kangaroo", an instrumental, backed by "Don'cha Hear Them Bells", which featured lyrics. "The Kangaroo" reached no. 23 on the Cash Box chart. The flip side "Don'cha Hear Them Bells" reached no. 13 on the Billboard Jockey Chart and no. 28 on the Cash Box Chart. "In the Good Old Summertime" reached no. 15 on the Billboard chart and no. 23 on the Cash Box chart in 1952. "How High the Moon" reached no. 1 on Billboard and Cash Box in 1951. "How High the Moon" was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1979 and is part of the Rock and Hall Hall of Fame 500.

The only video I've watched on KZread where leaving the comment "watching in august 2020" doesn't make you a tedious git

@thehumanityoflife6460

3 жыл бұрын

I wonder why the host said that?

Oh the irony. The sound of this show was better in 1953 than it is reproduced on you tube in 2017. Data compression ruins it.

@inglepropnoosegarm7801

4 жыл бұрын

@SaveBlueEyes Wrong. Nyquist proves you WILL capture everything within a bandwidth defined by the sampling frequency. Every nuance at 24-bit resolution. Far better than any analogue recorder can. Lossy compression is what ruins sound quality. Modern digital audio recording is essentially perfect. These are facts, not opinions.

@nodreb123

4 жыл бұрын

1953? I thought this song came out in 1951.

Les was such a shredder dude gosh

She seems such a lady🌸 ... how pleasant‼️🌸they are great and what a fantastic way of taping😱👍🏻🌸‼️

Les and Mary were so ahead of their time, it’s uncanny and scary. And Mary was not only a hell of a vocalist but was also a fine guitarist. Les just continued to innovate.

This is very cool to see how they did some of their material!

We only have a couple months left until they’re done listening back to back...

Les Paul probably had no idea at the time that his recording techniques & the recording technology of that day would never get any (much) better than it was at the time they did this show.

@mr.3camerasman59

9 жыл бұрын

I hope he's reincarnated. Then music might possibly improve.

@MrPyroguru

9 жыл бұрын

Classic Junk Reincarnation is a lie. He is Heaven with Jesus Christ.

@mr.3camerasman59

9 жыл бұрын

Michael Williams Then somebody lied when they said Jesus walked the earth after his death. "Fear not ye; for I know that ye seek Jesus, who was crucified. He is not here, for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay. And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him; lo, I have told you."

@MrPyroguru

9 жыл бұрын

Classic Junk Nobody lied about anything. He rose and walked the Earth after his death on the Cross but he is no longer here. Jesus Christ is now seated at the right hand of God the Father in Heaven until his return. You didn't read everything. Failure to believe in Jesus Christ leads to eternal condemnation in an everlasting fire. John 3:16 & 36.

@schube9891

7 жыл бұрын

How this music lead to a stuffy religious debate is the true miracle/ question.

Les was "The Fire Chief" of the low frets. I also think it's wonderful Mary Ford always had her own billing and wasn't know as Mary Paul. This clip is indeed and important part of music history on many levels. Looks like he's playing a Gibson guitar here, a rather advanced electric for 1953. Their rendition of " How High The Moon" at 5:12 is stunning.

smooth as silk

Whoa... did the host just say "... You'd be lucky play them all through by AUGUST 2020?!? Guess we're finally done listening!

This brings a tear to my fucking eye. When people mention America, this time, era, and new York is what comes to mind.

It's already August 2020!!! 😲😳😲😳😲

y'll realize there were no do-overs. in this first generation of sound-on-sound you got one pass (try) on your overdub. that was it. not like today when you can do your new part to death if wanted. THAT is what makes it friggin' amazing about those recordings.

Mary Ford came from a country background. She was recommended to Les by Gene Autry. She was a very talented singer who could harmonize to herself multiple times. She could do anything Les Paul asked of her and she was a very good rythm guitar player. No doubt taught by Les. Ken, Toronto

@cityzen2717

5 жыл бұрын

SHE COULD SING VERY WELL!

@philiphoward1731

5 жыл бұрын

I think she could play league guitar really good too I’ve seen videos of her doing that

@ignorecorporatenews

5 жыл бұрын

@@philiphoward1731wtf is league guitar

@musichistorynut

4 жыл бұрын

Actually, according to the book "The Birth of Loud," Mary had been playing guitar since she was in her teens. And she was amazing. She could match him note-for-note nearly all the time.

@Wargasm644

4 жыл бұрын

TheEternalNow Ain’t you ever heard of a league guitarist 😂

Les Paul...An absolute genius!

Great team!

Amazing talent.

Such talent , true artists !!

Awesome!

A Les Paul being played by Les Paul. How poetic

@TheMcstevester

5 жыл бұрын

It's almost like he designed it

@GrimYak

5 жыл бұрын

@@TheMcstevester he didn't designed it. Gibson did.The design was ready by the time Les Paul was brought in.

He was to music what Einstein was to physics!

@joesteals

4 жыл бұрын

@@ErinIsReal BAM!!!

@gregd6022

3 жыл бұрын

Ahhh i think that would be the Engineers at Ampex, and they got it from German war tech. Les Paul was a user of the tech, a lot different.

@markberryhill2715

3 жыл бұрын

As the old saying goes. He was so far ahead of his time we still haven't caught up with him yet.

this is legend

Wow, I just finished listening to all their records, took me a while but it was worth it I guess

impressionnant !!!! Le génie est dans l’air !!!!!! Deux sacrés musiciens !!!!

Brilliant!

And now I’m watching this in 2020!

les and mary were so beautiful together

nuthin but WOW!

Les Paul, the original loop master.

This guy is a monster when it comes to music!!

Only seven more months and I’ll be finished listening to all the records.

If (Alistair Cooke suggests) you gathered together all the records Les Paul and Mary Ford sold pre-1953 and played them end to end, you wouldn't conclude until August 2020 - and I come upon this clip in March 2020. That's some coincidence . . .

2 pairs of razor sharp ears and a guitar/mic/tape machines produced a sound a million times more imaginative than any computer could ever manage.

What a lotta people don't know is that Mary Ford could also hold her own, on guitar with Les.

i think i'd rather be listening to every les paul + mary ford record sold one after another than relive august 2020

God bless LP

GENIUS

he did an interview and gave some credit to bing crosby because at the time he was in bing crosbys orchestra back in the 40,50s and wanted to electrafi so he invented a electric guitar from some old tape machine pickups he got from bing and used it in some recordings with nat king coles music show and of course with bings orchestra how inventive this guy was

@Finallybianca

4 жыл бұрын

sheddski lol nope go watch interview’s with les and come back when you learn the truth.

For those who are confused by this, he is doing this without a multitrack recorder, he is using two single-track machines. So this is all overdubbing, rather than multitrack recording. The playback and the new part are mixed down to a single track for the new recording. Then repeat. One part at a time. It was later, in 1957, that Paul acquired one of the first 8-track recorders from Ampex.

@Magnetron33

4 жыл бұрын

You are correct Luckily they had been doing that for a couple of years, so they were right on the money with the timing. Perfect live track

no wonder Alistair Cooke seemed vaguely familiar on Masterpiece Theater ! Les Paul and Mary Ford were incomparable.

He was more like a guitar scientist than just an instrumentalist.

LoL....This is April, 2020.....I will be back to this spot on August 2020....a nifty, unintended bit of 'prophecy'..

Genios! 😀👍

Wow👍🏽

Year I was born. 15 million records take until Aug 2020 to hear. OK

0:29 It's Aug 2019 now, just one more year till the 15 million records finish playing haha!

Boy what a pair.

Die beiden waren ihrer Zeit weit voraus.

wow! all this so long ago.

watching this July 2020 ;)

Les was awesome -- I started experimenting with tape recorders in 1960, so Les was my kinda guy! These days multi tracking with video is used, and you'd be able to SEE 12 Mary Fords singing with herself as a choir!

rock'n roll before rock'n roll

@markmmv

Жыл бұрын

This is October 23, 1953. Rock and Roll already was in music charts and national TV (in same Omnibus) Who am I talking about? About Bill Haley and his 2 hits - "Crazy Man Crazy" and "Fractured"

This is really spooky to me but I don’t know why. Her voice has always given me the shivers in a strange way

@pardyhardly

Жыл бұрын

It sounds like a gorgon singing.

I'm glad that effect units have downsized over the years. That thing looks like the goggle mainframe. These two awesome people have done more for modern music in just a few short years than anyone in the past 70.

Coming up to August 2020!

Love the guitar trickery at 7:06