Editing Les Paul (section)

===Les Paul and Mary Ford===
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[[File:Les Paul and Mary Ford 1954.jpg|thumb|Paul and Mary Ford in 1954]]
In the summer of 1945, Paul met country-western singer Iris Colleen Summers. They began working together on Paul's radio show, as Rhubarb Red and The Ozark Apple Knockers with Mary Lou. Later Paul suggested the stage name [[Mary Ford]]. They married in Milwaukee in 1949.

Their hits included "[[How High the Moon]]", "[[Bye Bye Blues (song)|Bye Bye Blues]]", "Song in Blue", "Don'cha Hear Them Bells", "[[The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise]]", and "[[Vaya con Dios (song)|Vaya con Dios]]". The songs were recorded with multiple tracks where Ford harmonized with herself and Paul played multiple layers of guitars.

They used the recording technique known as [[close miking]]<ref name=Garage/> where the microphone is less than {{convert|6|in|cm|0}} from the singer's mouth. This produces a more intimate, less reverberant sound than when a singer is {{convert|1|ft|cm|-1}} or more from the microphone. When using a pressure-gradient (uni- or bi-directional) microphone, it emphasizes low-frequency sounds in the voice due to the microphone's [[Proximity effect (audio)|proximity effect]] and gives a more relaxed feel because the performer is not working as hard. The result is a singing style which diverged from the unamplified theater style of the musical comedies of the 1930s and 1940s.

They also performed music-hall style semi-comic routines with Mary mimicking whatever line Les decided to improvise.<ref>{{Citation|title=Les Paul & Mary Ford Absolutely Live|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awjTKeS9Wvo| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211107/awjTKeS9Wvo| archive-date=2021-11-07 | url-status=live|date=June 27, 2014|language=en|access-date=2021-08-11}}{{cbignore}}</ref>