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But he says the United States has an obligation "as a leader in the world" to hold countries accountable if they violate international norms.
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Despite a vote in Britain against taking action in Syria, Obama indicates that France is with him.
Obama's comments came as his administration made its intelligence case against the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad for a chemical attack against civilians earlier this month.

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From Judd Apatow's Funny People (2009).
The last shot of Funny People always troubled me. Apatow's daring and uncompromising portrayal of Adam Sandler's megalomaniac 'George Simmons' is neutered by a gesture of humility when he meets with Rogen's character on his own turf, a supermarket deli. However, even if Apatow's mise en scène isn't meticulous or the source of what's great in his cinema (as Richard Brody points out, his genius is to put funny people on camera), Funny People certainly reveals that at times he can be visually careful, and this last shot clearly is. I now realize the intention of this shot, as it it pulls back, minimizing the two comic leads, and figuring them within a frame where they become dominated by real life & real people. Apatow, on several levels, has spent the film explaining what it is to be a comic—the good, the bad, and the ugly side of it. Finally, he is able to situate these types of people he has distinguished back into the real world, into the background, just people.


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Friday, February 19, 2010
Friday Randoms
The nothing to see here folks, let's move it along crowd are telling us that Chinese demand is not waning using the British buying as support for their argument. This could be true but why the change? I posted a question on the EconomPic site; I asked if this is a political game of creating the appearance of less demand, did they really think they would fool anyone? Their previous activity reflected in the indirect bidding was what it was and it seems like it took ten minutes for the world to figure out that they routed their buying another way so what was the purpose if that is what happened?
Of course the conclusions about the UK could be correct but it does not make sense to me. The notion of China buying less in the future or letting what they have mature without rolling it over is something I've mentioned a few times as opposed to some sort of mass dumping which I think is unlikley. Lately it seems like the rhetoric from the Whitehouse has been that they plan to put more pressure on China to let the yuan float freely.
If you want to say that the yuan should have never been pegged I might agree (not sure) but it was pegged and maintaining the peg has required China to buy an awful lot of US debt at a time where the US is issuing increasingly more debt as far as the eye can see. The US needs all sorts of countries to buy its debt. If China actually gives the Whitehouse what it thinks it wants in terms of the exchange rate then it will be buying less US debt (maybe a lot less maybe not much less, I don't know) at exactly the time when the US needs more buyers with deeper pockets.
The table comes from Mike Shedlock. State pensions are in a world of hurt. PEW says the state pensions are collectively in the hole for $1 trillion. The assumed returns remind me of the online calculators people use to plug in 15% returns. I imagine the numbers on the tables come from consultants and the like and while maybe 7.25% might be right over certain long timeframes the per year numbers will be lumpier, that is just how markets work.
The lesson for individuals should be to leave a healthy margin for error in your plan. If you have to get 8% you may be in trouble.
On a lighter note Market Vectors launched the Egypt ETF (EGPT). Market Vectors along with GlobalX seem to really be trying to fill gaps in market coverage which I find encouraging. It should be no secret that I believe portfolio success in the new decade will require accessing "new" segments as was the case last decade. I will probably do a little more of a detailed write up for theStreet but here is a good recap of the story in Egypt (fundamentals of the country not how the fund integrates into a portfolio).
Egypt has plenty of risk factors to consider but not game over risk factors like the US, Western Europe or Japan. It seems pretty clear that life on the ground there will improve even if in fits and starts and I believe the country will become more important in the world economic order. We'll see.
The other bit of new ETF news is from EG Shares and its China Infrastructure ETF (CHXX). I'm turning in an article on that one to theStreet today so without frontrunning that I will say that it is light on things like roads, airports and sea ports (about 4% if I'm counting correctly) and heavier than I expected on solar stocks which looks like about 7.5% of the fund.
Maybe I am wrong but I think my thoughts about avoiding Chinese financials are gaining traction and so funds that offer the chance to do that should be a plus but I think the real estate exposure in CHXX needs to be taken into account and decided on by anyone interested in the concept.
16 comments:
- Anonymous said...
If you have to get 8% this coming decade you most likely are in trouble
- RW said...
China has been buying more debt from their other trading partners to maintain the same kind of trading advantage over them as it had with the US but this "beggar thy neighbor" policy is not going over well as you may imagine.
However one explanation for reduced purchases of US debt is the possibility that China might already be experiencing chronic hyperinflation and is edging towards a devaluation its currency rather than allowing it to float. Yeah, I know, crazy: Everyone knows the RMB should be higher against USD but this article at http://tinyurl.com/yg23f4s (ht naked capitalism) is causing me to (re)analyze my assumptions (usually a good exercise regardless).
Needless to add that a devaluation of the yuan, as unlikely as that may seem, would really put the cat among the global portfolio pigeons. - 8:04 AM
- Anonymous said...
How do you create a shortened (tin) url like RW did in the above post?
- Roger Nusbaum said...
the idea that the yuan could go down is also floating around out there as well. I don't think that argument wins out anytime soon.
anon to make a short url go to bit.ly and follow the instrux. VERY easy. - 8:35 AM
- Anonymous said...
Yuan going down makes no sense. If it happens a trade war becomes more likely. That would be totally horrible, but we may get one anyway.
- Anonymous said...
WSJ reports that the tracking error of ETFs missed their respective index by an average of 1.25 percentage points. This error is more than twice the .52 percent reported for 2008.
It seems to me large tracking errors of this sort diminish the appeal of trying to invest at the sector level. Any thoughts?
Here's the article http://bit.ly/9HQOCk
Thanks for the short url tip. - 9:43 AM
- Roger Nusbaum said...
maybe it would be a turn off for using sector funds but why investing at the sector level? one can use stocks.
unacceptable tracking error is in the eye of the beholder and so if that tracking error is too large for you then i can't disagree. however some funds barely trade and the extent to which those might skew the stats in the study are worth thinking about.
a rhetorical question; given that XLF dropped 80% or so would the extra basis points of tracking error have been worth it in avoiding the sector as it imploded? - 9:48 AM
- Anonymous said...
I understand. Reading the article made it seem like the broader the index, the lower the tracking error. The inference being that the narrower the index the greater the tracking error. My thinking is perhaps that underperformance at the sector level is worse than accepting the performance of the broad index and using your 200 DMA/inverted yield curve strategy. Individual stocks too dangerous/risky for my abilities.
Like many things in investing, these sorts of errors only appear in hindsight. - 10:22 AM
- Mike C said...
If you want to say that the yuan should have never been pegged I might agree (not sure) but it was pegged and maintaining the peg has required China to buy an awful lot of US debt at a time where the US is issuing increasingly more debt as far as the eye can see. The US needs all sorts of countries to buy its debt.
@Roger and really hoping RW will chime in:
U.S. government debt is completely, utterly IRRELEVANT.
Did that grab your attention? :)
That seems to be what this guy's (Bill Mitchell, see link below) economic/monetary theory is:
Came across his blog last night from a Dr. Jeff post:
Spent about 90 minutes on his blog. I think the word radical views would be an understatement. I can't possibly summarize his theory. I'm not sure I fully understand it (MMT/Chartalist) yet myself but the upshot seems to be government debt DOESN'T MATTER, it is just a convenient political fiction as the government that issues its own fiat currency is the creator and source of all funding. They don't have to raise debt, they can simply "print/creat money" by crediting the bank accounts of whomever the government owes money to.
I must say on an initial pass much of what he argues seems logical, but something seems off. Why go through the machinations of raising debt if you can simply pay all expenses with newly created money? - 10:59 AM
- Roger Nusbaum said...
I read the same Jeff Miller article and spent far less time than you on Bilbo. I'm pretty sure that monetization has been done before in world history with bad results. The definition of inflation is increasing of the money supply which then causes higher prices. Mitchell's argument is one I have heard before at some point but it makes no intuitive sense to me that from the big picture it can be correct. Yes more money can be printed--this prevents a true default, I have said that before but the trade off is an effective default.
It is possible that Mitchell is, to quote an episode of Deadwood, having a conversation I cannot hear but from where I sit open ended monetization makes the US a less attractive investment destination and maybe even a less attractive place to live. - 11:13 AM
- Anonymous said...
Mike C
If you print money with no restraint inflation will go through the roof. The dollar will eventually trade at wheel barrow full for 1 euro. And Toyotas will cost a few million a piece.
Savers get penalized the most. TANSTAFL (There ain't no such thing as a free lunch). If you follow these individuals who believe there are no consequences to debt or printing money you could lose your shirt and in extreme cases your country. For example Germany's printing of excess money which made their currency worthless led to the rise of Hitler.
Greatest growth in an economy comes from low positive levels of inflation assuming you measure it correctly and do not ignore things like rising house prices Like the US did. - 12:12 PM
- RW said...
MikeC, it's quite logical and factually accurate as far as it goes but Roger's point is also valid: As I think I've commented before, a country that controls its own currency has much wider latitude WRT debt loads than any other entity so analogizing to the debt of households, corporations, states, etc is a misleading and largely pointless exercise except for generating the political talking points we can't seem to escape these days.
If federal deficit spending becomes structural (chronic and growing in good times or bad) then national debt inexorably rises over the years to a level where increasing numbers of investors no longer want to buy it unless the risk of holding it is compensated for by a greater return which means interest rates have to rise. Keep that up long enough and carry cost chews up so much GDP that, even if deficits are brought under control, investors start to worry that a country cannot grow fast enough to keep default at bay.
When the currency in question is a major global trading and reserve currency like the US then that "point" is probably very far out* even from these levels but perhaps not as far out as we would like if our growth rate remains sub-par.
*When I say "far out" I mean much further on the time horizon than fear-mongers would have it -- e.g., real interest rates are currently still negative even though the longer end is showing steepeners -- but unlike the days when the country was growing fast and the horizon could be treated as virtually infinite I would say it is possible to see the curve of the US's economic earth now (that was one reason I recommended the "End of Influence" book a couple posts ago). JMO - 1:05 PM
- Anonymous said...
When rational cool heads prevailed the European Union decided national debt could not be increased by more than 3% a year maximum. That debt levels must be kept in check by expected growth in an economy and not allowed to grow wildly.
Now you here a bunch of BS as to why it is ok for the US to go very deeply in to debt. In the short run you can run up debt, but in the long run it will strangle a country and leave it with few options, stagnated growth, or worse.
Think about it. If debt was a free lunch for nations everyone would have been doing it for decades. - 2:09 PM
- Anonymous said...
......Think about it. If debt was a free lunch for nations everyone would have been doing it for decades.......
Huh??? Everyone has been doing it for decades. furthermore, everyone will continue to do it for decades. The trick has been and will be to not make it look like that. - 2:19 PM
- Anonymous said...
A perhaps naive question: Why does a return of 6-8% seem OK for a pension portfolio, while 4% is the expected return for a personal portfolio?
- Anonymous said...
because pension portfolio pays no tax?


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Critically examining equality of belligerents in non-international armed conflicts
[Editor's Note: In its efforts to enrich professional dialogue on contemporary challenges of humanitarian law and policy, the Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research (HPCR) at Harvard University invites experts in international humanitarian law, humanitarian action, and associated fields to contribute their insights to relevant discussions. HPCR is pleased to welcome the contribution below from Dr. Marco Sassòli, Professor in the Department of Public International Law and International Organizations, University of Geneva. Professor Sassòli will be one of the expert panelists at the April 5, 2012 Live Web Seminar co-hosted by HPCR and the International Review of the Red Cross on "Understanding Armed Groups and the Applicable Law."]
By Marco Sassòli
The questions I raise in this blog arose both during my teaching, research, and drafting of publications on IHL, and out of my practical experience working for 13 years for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and chairing the board of Geneva Call, an NGO engaging armed groups to respect humanitarian norms. For the following reasons, in the discussion with Yuval Shany published in the issue of the International Review of the Red Cross on understanding armed groups, I take the position that the principle of equality of belligerents in non-international armed conflicts limits the impact of international humanitarian law (IHL) on the conduct of non-state armed groups and their compliance with key provisions. We should, therefore, consider abandoning this principle, or at least modifying it, in non-international armed conflicts.
As with all law, IHL has to take into account the social reality it seeks to govern. Non-international armed conflicts are by definition fought as much by armed groups as by governmental armed forces. If the law takes the needs, difficulties, and aspirations of only the latter into account, it will be less realistic and effective. In my view, for all existing, claimed, and newly suggested rules of IHL, or whenever we interpret IHL, we have therefore to assess whether an armed group with the necessary will is able to comply with the identified rule, without necessarily losing the conflict. If this is not the case, the armed group will likely not comply with the rule, and the impression, by the armed group, that IHL is not realistic will undermine the credibility and protective effect of other rules, including rules that an armed group is able to comply with.
At least three examples raise doubts in this respect. First, the current tendency of international criminal tribunals, the ICRC, and scholars to bring IHL of non-international armed conflicts closer to that of international armed conflicts, mainly via alleged customary rules, may have the negative side effect that armed groups are claimed to be bound by rules that only States can comply with. Second, the increasing integration of human rights standards into IHL may lead to a similar result. Third, the combination of a minimum age of 18 to participate in hostilities and a broad concept of (prohibited) involvement of children with armed groups results in requirements that largely make it impossible for members of armed groups to remain together with their families and to be supported by the whole population.
These and other examples may lead to the conclusion that IHL should apply to armed groups according to a sliding scale of obligations that will increase according to the intensity of violence and the degree of organization of the group. Such a sliding scale of obligations would not be revolutionary. The threshold of application of Additional Protocol II, which is much higher than that of Article 3 common to the Conventions, already results in such a sliding scale. AP II's relatively higher threshold is perhaps realistic for armed groups, because only those groups that control territory (which is one of the conditions for the Protocol, but not for Common Article 3, to apply) may be able to respect certain rules of the Protocol.
Such a sliding scale of obligations will in turn lead to the question of whether the principle of equality of belligerents under IHL is appropriate in non-international armed conflicts (because it is not objectively needed for governmental forces and is only due to the (in)ability of the armed group). On the one hand, equality of belligerents is a cardinal principle of international humanitarian law, and there are good theoretical and even more compelling practical reasons to apply it equally in non-international armed conflicts, however morally justified a conflict may be, as in rebellions against a dictatorial government, the battle between a democratic government and a terrorist group, or efforts to combat an armed group seeking to loot natural resources or engaged in drug trafficking. The victims of the conflict on both sides need the same protection. On the other hand, the principle of equality of belligerents combined with the need to keep IHL rules realistic for armed groups would lead to the result that well-organized governmental forces would be bound by more rudimentary IHL rules if their enemy is not well organized, even though the governmental forces could perfectly comply with more demanding rules. This result is, however, unsatisfactory only when one looks at IHL alone. If one includes international human rights law (IHRL) into the picture — given that States are bound by IHRL while armed groups are not (or, according to more progressive theories, at least not bound to the same extent) — war victims would nevertheless benefit from full, if not better, protection from governmental forces, because when IHL does not apply as lex specialis, IHRL fully applies.
There is another way out of the finding that some developed rules of IHL may be unrealistic for armed groups to comply with: abandon the principle of equality of belligerents and require from the government full respect of customary and conventional rules of IHL while requiring from their enemies respect according only to their objective ability to respect certain rules. The better organized an armed group is and the more stable control the group has over territory, the more similar the applicable rules would be to the full international humanitarian law of international armed conflicts. In my debate with Yuval Shany published in the latest issue of the International Review of the Red Cross, I defend this position.
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"Older carpets look great with everything," Otsea said. "They add great warmth by their color and design. Older carpets have a wonderful patina and character that you can't capture in a new piece. Each one is different. You're not going to see the same thing when you go into everyone's house."
Doris Athineos, the arts and antiques editor for Traditional Home magazine, said the sale of the Clark Sickle-Leaf carpet may inspire people to look at the carpets with a new eye, mindful that an eight-figure sum was just shelled out for one of the finest examples.
"It gives them confidence to pull the trigger on something they may be eying, and confidence if they've inherited them from a great aunt or have them rolled up and stored. They might think, 'Hey maybe I should put that out,'" Athineos said.
Whether antiques or reproductions, the carpets work well in any kind of house or with any kind of decor, she said.
"I can't imagine where a beautiful antique carpet wouldn't work," Athineos said. "I have seen them in every kind of home from minimalist to maximalist, where there's lot of decoration in the house. They add warmth to very pristine, minimalist spaces."
Try one in any room except the kitchen, Athineos recommends, especially the space where people spend the most time, perhaps the media room.
"That's the kind of wear those carpets can take," she said. "They're meant to be walked on."
With so many styles of design -- florals, geometrics, abstracts -- Otsea recommends browsing through as many carpets as possible to find out what you like. A great carpet, she said, is the right combination of color, design, technique and tradition.


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The real problem isn't, and never has been, the subsidies and tariffs, even though they distort the market. It's the mandates that require certain performance by market participants that they probably wouldn't do if they were left to their own devices. Once again, it's government interference in the natural order of things in order, according to publicly expressed intentions, to improve the operation of the market and accomplish ends the market wouldn't accomplish otherwise. In other words, we're back to the outrageous hubris of the social planners who think they are smarter than the market and its participants.
The recent attempt to terminate both the ethanol subsidies of $.45 a gallon and the $.54-per-gallon import tariff on Brazilian sugar-based ethanol by the Senate failed because it was an amendment attached to a bill that was doomed to failure anyway. Both will cease on December 31 automatically, ending 33 years of subsidizing the ethanol industry; however, food prices are likely to stay high anyway. The main reason is neither the subsidy nor the tariff, but the mandate by the government requiring gasoline refiners to continue to increase their usage of ethanol when blending their gasoline products. Under the 2007 Renewable Fuels Standard, the United States is required to use 12.6 billion gallons of ethanol this year, increasing to 15 billion in 2015, and 36 billion gallons by the year 2022.
The ethanol producers have largely accepted the reality saying that those subsidies of $6 billion a year aren't needed anymore. With oil prices at $100 a barrel, the fuel blenders such as Valero, Archer Daniels Midland, and POET haven't needed the subsidies to make a profit, because ethanol costs less than gasoline in many of their markets. Even Bob Dinneen, president of the Renewable Fuels Association, has changed his mind. A year and a half ago he argued that ending the subsidies would cost 112,000 jobs; but now, when asked if the industry needs them, he replied, "No, you don't. In today's environment, no, you don't need it." Bob Buis, an associate with Growth Energy, an ethanol industry association, agrees: "The industry wouldn't have happened without it, but we're in a different position today."
The real battleground is over continuing the mandates. Sold to the public as a way to reduce the country's dependency on foreign oil, the effect has been to shift agricultural land from growing food to growing fuel. In 2005, 16 million acres were devoted to growing "biofuels" but by 2010 it took 46 million acres to meet the mandates. That huge shift has contributed to less acreage committed to growing commodities, and higher prices as a result.
At least that's the conclusion reached by a study just published for the Farm Foundation which stated that the current
[b]iofuels policy has brought about a large, persistent and non-price responsive [sticky price] demand for corn. The combination of mandates and blending limitations…set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulations determine the corn demand for ethanol, regardless of the corn price…
This shift [to growing corn for ethanol has] contributed to lower production and much higher prices for commodities, such as cotton…
There is little doubt that biofuels play a role in the corn price level…and this has spilled over into other commodity markets.
The logic behind such increases appears, on the surface at least, to be sound. When the supply of something is restricted, the price in a free market will increase, if the demand stays the same. That higher price then eventually brings additional supplies to the market, which brings down the price. It's classical economic thinking. Bill Lapp, president of Advanced Economic Solutions in Omaha, Nebraska, agrees: "Livestock producers, restaurants, food manufacturers and consumers at the grocery store are all being penalized by this…biofuel policy." And a recent poll from Rasmussen confirms that people are paying more for their groceries.
But a study from Informa Economics provides a much more comprehensive analysis of the link between high corn prices and resulting high food prices. In fact, according to this study, the link is much more tenuous than originally thought. Renewable Fuels Association president Dinneen says that the study shows "that no statistical evidence exists demonstrating a significant link between ethanol, corn prices, and rising food costs." The study points out the impact of other factors involved in bringing commodities to market, including labor, packaging, transportation, energy, profits, advertising, depreciation, rent, interest, repairs, and business taxes.
The study also notes that just 16 percent of the cost of a retail food item goes for the raw material "farm value," with the remaining 84 percent going for the costs involved in bringing that item to market. The study concludes:
While an increase in corn prices will affect certain industries—for example, causing livestock and poultry feeding margins to be lower than they otherwise would have been—the statistical evidence does not support a conclusion that there is a strict "food-versus-fuel" tradeoff that is automatically driving consumer prices higher.
Such an analysis should help in understanding the complexities in the modern retail marketplace, and how interference in that marketplace continues to distort prices. Once ethanol subsidies and tariffs disappear, the next battle will be over the continuing mandates requiring growing food for fuel in the name of oil independence and clean air. In the meantime, those distortions in the market will certainly show up as higher prices at the grocery store, thanks not only to Federal Reserve policies of creating money out of nothing, but also to the government's continuing efforts through mandates to impose its will on the market.
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"Consider a future date when gasoline is no longer available. Which of the following do you think would be the best fuel for use in personal vehicles: electricity, ethanol, or hydrogen?"
Respondents to both surveys chose electricity more often than any other fuel type. The share of respondents choosing hydrogen as the best fuel increased from 15% in 2000 to 28% in 2004.
Source: Opinion Research Corporation for National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Study #709489 (N = 1,000), December 1, 2000, and Study #713359 (N = 1,041), August 27, 2004.
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Les Paul | |
Les Paul playing a Gibson Les Paul in a live show at Iridium Jazz Club in New York City, 2008. | |
Background information | |
Birth name | Lester William Polsfuss[1] |
Born | Waukesha, Wisconsin, US | June 9, 1915
Died | August 12, 2009 White Plains, New York, US[2][3] | (aged 94)
Genres | Jazz, country, blues, rock and roll |
Occupations | Innovator, Inventor, Musician, Songwriter |
Instruments | Guitar, Banjo, Harmonica, Piano |
Years active | 1928–2009 |
Website | lespaulfoundation.org |
Notable instruments | |
Gibson Les Paul |
Les Paul | |
Les Paul playing a Gibson Les Paul in a live show at Iridium Jazz Club in New York City, 2008. | |
Background information | |
Birth name | Lester William Polsfuss[1] |
Born | Waukesha, Wisconsin, US | June 9, 1915
Died | August 12, 2009 White Plains, New York, US[2][3] | (aged 94)
Genres | Jazz, country, blues, rock and roll |
Occupations | Innovator, Inventor, Musician, Songwriter |
Instruments | Guitar, Banjo, Harmonica, Piano |
Years active | 1928–2009 |
Website | lespaulfoundation.org |
Notable instruments | |
Gibson Les Paul |
Lester William Polsfuss (June 9, 1915 – August 12, 2009)[4][5][6][3] —known as Les Paul—was an American jazz, country and blues guitarist, songwriter, luthier and inventor. He was one of the pioneers of the solid-body electric guitar, which made the sound of rock and roll possible. Voices from the Smithsonian Associates. Les Paul, Musician and Inventor. He is credited with many recording innovations. Although he was not the first to use the technique, his early experiments with overdubbing (also known as sound on sound),[7] delay effects such as tape delay, phasing effects and multitrack recording were among the first to attract widespread attention.[8]
His innovative talents extended into his playing style, including licks, trills, chording sequences, fretting techniques and timing, which set him apart from his contemporaries and inspired many guitarists of the present day.[9][10][11][12] He recorded with his wife Mary Ford in the 1950s, and they sold millions of records.
Among his many honors, Paul is one of a handful of artists with a permanent, stand-alone exhibit in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.[13] He is prominently named by the music museum on its website as an "architect" and a "key inductee" along with Sam Phillips and Alan Freed.[14]
Les Paul was born Lester William Polsfuss outside Milwaukee, in Waukesha, Wisconsin, to George and Evelyn (1888–1989) (née Stutz) Polsfuss. His family was of German ancestry.[15] Paul's mother was related to the founders of Milwaukee's Valentin Blatz Brewing Company and the makers of the Stutz automobile.[16] His parents divorced when he was a child.[17] The Prussian family name was first simplified by his mother to Polfuss before he took his stage name of Les Paul. He also used the nicknames Red Hot Red[18] and Rhubarb Red.[19]
While living in Wisconsin, he first became interested in music at age eight when he began playing the harmonica. After an attempt at learning the banjo, he began to play the guitar. It was during this time that he invented a neck-worn harmonica holder, which allowed him to play the harmonica hands-free while accompanying himself on the guitar. Paul's device is still manufactured using his basic design.[20] By age thirteen, Paul was performing semi-professionally as a country-music singer, guitarist and harmonica player. While playing at the Waukesha area drive-ins and roadhouses, Paul began his first experiment with sound. Wanting to make himself heard by more people at the local venues, he wired a phonograph needle to a radio speaker, using that to amplify his acoustic guitar.[21] At age seventeen, Paul played with Rube Tronson's Texas Cowboys, and soon after he dropped out of high school to join Wolverton's Radio Band in St. Louis, Missouri, on KMOX.
Paul moved to Chicago in 1934, where he continued to perform on radio, and met pianist Art Tatum, whose playing influenced him to a career devoted to guitar rather than original plans of taking on the piano.[22] His first two records were released in 1936. One was credited to "Rhubarb Red", Paul's hillbilly alter ego, and the other was as an accompanist for blues-artist Georgia White. It was during this time that he began playing jazz and adopted his stage name.[23]
Paul's jazz-guitar style was strongly influenced by the music of Django Reinhardt, whom he greatly admired. Following World War II, Paul sought out and befriended Reinhardt. After Reinhardt's death in 1953, Paul furnished his headstone.[citation needed] One of Paul's prize possessions was a Selmer Maccaferri acoustic guitar given to him by Reinhardt's widow.[18]
Oral History, Les Paul shares moments of his life story and career. interview date November 13, 2001, NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants) Oral History Library |
Paul formed a trio in 1937 with singer/rhythm guitarist Jim Atkins[24] (older half-brother of guitarist Chet Atkins) and bassist/percussionist Ernie "Darius" Newton. They left Chicago for New York in 1939, landing a featured spot with Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians radio show. Chet Atkins later wrote that his brother, home on a family visit, presented the younger Atkins with an expensive Gibson archtop guitar that had been given to Jim Atkins by Les Paul. Chet recalled that it was the first professional-quality instrument he ever owned.[25]
Paul was dissatisfied with acoustic-electric guitars and began experimenting at his apartment in Queens, NY with a few designs of his own. Famously, he created several versions of "The Log", which was nothing more than a length of common 4x4 lumber with a bridge, guitar neck and pickup attached. For the sake of appearance, he attached the body of an Epiphone hollow-body guitar, sawn lengthwise with The Log in the middle. This solved his two main problems: feedback, as the acoustic body no longer resonated with the amplified sound, and sustain, as the energy of the strings was not dissipated in generating sound through the guitar body. These instruments were constantly being improved and modified over the years, and Paul continued to use them in his recordings long after the development of his eponymous Gibson model. In 1945, Richard D. Bourgerie made an electric guitar pickup and amplifier for professional guitar player George Barnes. Bourgerie worked through World War II at Howard Radio Company making electronic equipment for the American military. Barnes showed the result to Les Paul, who then arranged for Bourgerie to have one made for him.
While experimenting in his apartment in 1940, Paul nearly succumbed to electrocution. During two years of recuperation, he relocated to Hollywood, supporting himself by producing radio music and forming a new trio. He was drafted into the US Army shortly after the beginning of World War II, where he served in the Armed Forces Network, backing such artists as Bing Crosby, the Andrews Sisters, and performing in his own right.[26]
As a last-minute replacement for Oscar Moore, Paul played with Nat King Cole and other artists in the inaugural Jazz at the Philharmonic concert in Los Angeles, California, on July 2, 1944. The recording, still available as Jazz at the Philharmonic- the first concert- shows Paul at the top of his game, both in his solid four to the bar comping in the style of Freddie Green and for the originality of his solo lines. Paul's solo on 'Blues' is an astonishing tour de force and represents a memorable contest between himself and Nat 'King' Cole. Much later in his career, Paul declared that he had been the victor and that this had been conceded by Cole.[citation needed] His solo on Body and Soul is a fine demonstration both of his admiration for and emulation of the playing of Django Reinhardt, as well as his development of some very original lines.
Also that year, Paul's trio appeared on Bing Crosby's radio show. Crosby went on to sponsor Paul's recording experiments. The two also recorded together several times, including a 1945 number-one hit, "It's Been a Long, Long Time." In addition to backing Crosby, The Andrews Sisters and other artists, Paul's trio also recorded a few albums of their own on the Decca label in the late 1940s. Paul was particularly enamored by the famous Andrews Sisters, who hired The Les Paul Trio as their opening act while they toured in 1946. Lou Levy, the sisters' manager and a music publishing giant of the big band era and beyond, once said, "Watching his fingers work was like watching a locomotive go."[27] The trio's longtime conductor, Vic Schoen, said of Les, "You could always count on him to come up with something no one else had thought of,"[27] while Maxene Andrews once remembered, "It was wonderful having him perform with us. He'd tune into the passages we were singing and lightly play the melody, sometimes in harmony. We'd sing these fancy licks and he'd keep up with us note for note in exactly the same rhythm...almost contributing a fourth voice. But he never once took the attention away from what we were doing. He did everything he could to make us sound better."[27] Two Decca recordings from 1946 pairing Paul with The Andrews Sisters ("Rumors Are Flying" and "It's a Pity to Say Goodnight") exist today to well affirm such comments. Paul's many hits with wife Mary Ford recording her vocals in triplicate in the 1950s produced a sound eerily similar to the harmonious blend of The Andrews Sisters.[27] As Les Paul biographer Mary Alice Shaughnessy noted of Paul's association with The Andrews Sisters, "Les welcomed the opportunity to study them in full flight."[27]
In January 1948, Paul shattered his right arm and elbow in a near-fatal automobile accident on an icy Route 66 just west of Davenport, Oklahoma. Mary Ford was driving the Buick convertible, which rolled several times down a creek bed; they were on their way back from Wisconsin to Los Angeles after performing at the opening of a restaurant owned by Paul's father. Doctors at Oklahoma City's Wesley Presbyterian Hospital told him that they could not rebuild his elbow so that he would regain movement; his arm would remain permanently in whatever position they placed it in. Their other option was amputation. Paul instructed surgeons, brought in from Los Angeles, to set his arm at an angle—just under 90 degrees—that would allow him to cradle and pick the guitar. It took him nearly a year and a half to recover.[28]
Paul's innovative guitar, "The Log", built after-hours in the Epiphone guitar factory in 1940, a 4" × 4" chunk of pine with strings and a pickup, was one of the first solid-body electric guitars.[29][30] Paul Tutmarc of Audiovox Manufacturing Co. built a solid body electric bass in 1935 and Adolph Rickenbacker had marketed a solid-body guitar in the 1930s and Paul A. Bigsby had built one for Merle Travis in 1948 and Leo Fender also independently created his own (the Fender "Esquire," a single pickup model) in 1948. Although Paul approached the Gibson Guitar Corporation with his idea of a solid body electric guitar, they showed no interest until Fender began marketing its Esquire which later had a second pick-up added and became known as the Broadcaster (Renamed Telecaster in 1952).
The arrangement persisted until 1961, when declining sales prompted Gibson to change the design without Paul's knowledge, creating a much thinner, lighter and more aggressive-looking instrument with two cutaway "horns" instead of one. Paul said he first saw the "new" Gibson Les Paul in a music-store window, and disliked it.[citation needed] Problems with the strength of the body and neck made Paul dissatisfied with the new guitar. This, and a pending divorce from Mary Ford, led to Paul ending his endorsement and use of his name on Gibson guitars until 1966, by which time his divorce was completed.[31] At Paul's request, Gibson renamed the guitar "Gibson SG", which stands for "Solid Guitar", and it also became one of the company's best sellers.[citation needed]
The original Gibson Les Paul design regained popularity when Eric Clapton began playing the instrument a few years later, although he also played an SG and an ES-335. Paul resumed his relationship with Gibson and endorsed the original[citation needed] Gibson Les Paul guitar from that point onwards[citation needed]. His personal Gibson Les Pauls were much modified by him: Paul always used his own self-wound pickups and customized methods of switching between pickups on his guitars[citation needed]. To this day, various models of Gibson Les Paul guitars are used all over the world by both novice and professional guitarists. A less-expensive version of the Gibson Les Paul guitar is also manufactured for Gibson's lower-priced Epiphone brand.[32]
Paul continued to seek technical improvements, although they were not always successful commercially. For example, in 1962 Paul was issued US Patent No. 3,018,680, for a pickup in which the coil was physically attached to the strings.[33]
Paul had never been happy with the way his records sounded. During a post-recording session talk with Bing Crosby, the crooner suggested Paul try building his own recording studio so he might be able to get the sound he wanted. At first Paul discounted the idea only to give it a few more minutes thought before deciding Crosby was right. Paul started his own studio in the garage of his home on Hollywood's North Curson Street. The studio drew many other famous vocalists and musicians who wanted the benefit of Paul's expertise. The home and studio are still standing, but both had been moved to Pasadena at some point after Paul no longer owned the home.[34]
In 1948, Les Paul was given one of the first Ampex Model 200A reel-to-reel audio tape recording decks by Crosby and went on to use Ampex's eight track "Sel-Sync" machines for Multitrack recording. Capitol Records released a recording that had begun as an experiment in Paul's garage, entitled "Lover (When You're Near Me)", which featured Paul playing eight different parts on electric guitar, some of them recorded at half-speed, hence "double-fast" when played back at normal speed for the master. ("Brazil", similarly recorded, was the B-side.) This was the first time that Les Paul used multitracking in a recording (Paul had been shopping his multitracking technique, unsuccessfully, since the '30s. Much to his dismay, Sidney Bechet used it in 1941 to play half a dozen instruments on "Sheik of Araby"). These recordings were made not with magnetic tape, but with acetate discs. Paul would record a track onto a disk, then record himself playing another part with the first. He built the multitrack recording with overlaid tracks, rather than parallel ones as he did later. By the time he had a result he was satisfied with, he had discarded some five hundred recording disks.
Paul even built his own disc-cutter assembly, based on automobile parts. He favored the flywheel from a Cadillac for its weight and flatness. Even in these early days, he used the acetate-disk setup to record parts at different speeds and with delay, resulting in his signature sound with echoes and birdsong-like guitar riffs. When he later began using magnetic tape, the major change was that he could take his recording rig on tour with him, even making episodes for his fifteen-minute radio show in his hotel room. He later worked with Ross Snyder on the design of the first eight-track recording deck (built for him by Ampex for his home studio.)[34][35]
Electronics engineer Jack Mullin had been assigned to a U.S. Army Signal Corps unit stationed in France during World War II. On a mission in Germany near the end of the war, he acquired and later shipped home a German Magnetophon (tape recorder) and fifty reels of I.G. Farben plastic recording tape. Back in the U.S., Mullin rebuilt and developed the machine with the intention of selling it to the film industry, and held a series of demonstrations which quickly became the talk of the American audio industry.
Within a short time, Crosby had hired Mullin to record and produce his radio shows and master his studio recordings on tape. Crosby invested US$50,000 in a Northern California electronics firm, Ampex. With Crosby's backing, Mullin and Ampex created the Ampex Model 200, the world's first commercially produced reel-to-reel audio tape recorder. Crosby gave Les Paul the second Model 200 to be produced.[citation needed]
Les Paul invented Sound on Sound recording using this machine by placing an additional playback head, located before the conventional erase/record/playback heads. This allowed Paul to play along with a previously recorded track, both of which were mixed together on to a new track. This was a mono tape recorder with just one track across the entire width of quarter-inch tape; thus, the recording was "destructive" in the sense that the original recording was permanently replaced with the new, mixed recording. He eventually enhanced this by using one tape machine to play back the original recording and a second to record the combined track. This preserved the original recording[36]
Les Paul bought the first Ampex 8-track recorder in 1957.[36] Rein Narma built a custom 8-channel mixing console for Les Paul.[37] The mixing board included in-line equalization and vibrato effects The recorder was named "the octopus" and the mixing console was named "the monster".[38] The name octopus was inspired by W. C. Fields who was the first person Les Paul played a multi-track recording to. Upon hearing the recording W. C. Fields said: 'My boy, you sound like an octopus."[39]
Paul met country-western singer Iris Colleen Summers in 1945. They began working together in 1948, at which time she adopted the stage name Mary Ford. They were married in 1949. The couple's hits included "How High the Moon", "Bye Bye Blues", "Song in Blue", "Don'cha Hear Them Bells", "The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise", and "Vaya con Dios". These songs featured Ford harmonizing with herself.
Like Crosby, Paul and Ford used the now-ubiquitous recording technique known as close miking,[34] where the microphone is less than 6 inches (15 cm) from the singer's mouth. This produces a more-intimate, less-reverberant sound than is heard when a singer is 1 foot (30 cm) or more from the microphone. When implemented using a cardioid-patterned microphone, it emphasizes low-frequency sounds in the voice due to a cardioid microphone's proximity effect and can give a more relaxed feel because the performer isn't working so hard. The result is a singing style which diverged strongly from unamplified theater-style singing, as might be heard in musical comedies of the 1930s and 1940s.
Paul had hosted a fifteen-minute radio program, The Les Paul Show, on NBC Radio in 1950, featuring his trio (himself, Ford and rhythm player Eddie Stapleton) and his electronics, recorded from their home and with gentle humor between Paul and Ford bridging musical selections, some of which had already been successful on records, some of which anticipated the couple's recordings, and many of which presented re-interpretations of such jazz and pop selections as "In the Mood", "Little Rock Getaway", "Brazil" and "Tiger Rag". Over ten of these shows survive among old-time radio collectors today.[40]
The show also appeared on television a few years later with the same format, but excluding the trio and retitled The Les Paul & Mary Ford Show (also known as Les Paul & Mary Ford at Home) with "Vaya Con Dios" as the theme song. Sponsored by Warner Lambert's Listerine mouthwash, it was aired on NBC Television during 1954-1955, and then syndicated until 1960. The show was only five minutes (one or two songs) long, and therefore used as a brief interlude or fill-in in programming schedules. Since Paul created the entire show himself, including audio and video, he maintained the original recordings and was in the process of restoring them to current quality standards until his death.[41]
During his radio shows, Paul introduced the fictional "Les Paulverizer" device, which multiplies anything fed into it, like a guitar sound or a voice. Paul has stated that the idea was to explain to the audience how his single guitar could be multiplied to become a group of guitars. The device even became the subject of comedy, with Ford multiplying herself and her vacuum cleaner with it so she could finish the housework faster.
In 1965, Paul went into semi-retirement, although he did return to the studio occasionally. He and Ford had divorced in December 1962, as she could no longer cope with the traveling lifestyle their act required of them.[citation needed] Paul's most-recognizable recordings from then through the mid-1970s were an album for London Records/Phase 4 Stereo, Les Paul Now (1968), on which he updated some of his earlier hits; and, backed by some of Nashville's celebrated studio musicians, a meld of jazz and country improvisation with fellow guitar virtuoso Chet Atkins, Chester and Lester (1976), for RCA Victor.
In 1987, Paul underwent heart surgery. He then returned to active live performance, continuing into his 80s even though he often found it painful to play the guitar because of arthritis in his hands. In 2006, at age 90, he won two Grammys at the 48th Annual Grammy Awards for his album Les Paul & Friends: American Made World Played. He also performed every Monday night, accompanied by a trio which included guitarist Lou Pallo, bassist Paul Nowinksi (and later, Nicki Parrott) and pianist John Colaianni, originally at Fat Tuesdays, and later at the Iridium Jazz Club on Broadway in the Times Square area of New York City.[42][43][44]
Les and his trio held court at the Iridium Jazz Club in midtown Manhattan for many years, playing every Monday night. Often, a wide array of other artists would appear and sit in with or sing in front of the trio. A tribute trio still plays the Monday dates.
Composer Richard Stein (1909–1992) sued Paul for plagiarism, charging that Paul's "Johnny (Is the Boy for Me)" was taken from Stein's 1937 song "Sanie cu zurgălăi" (Romanian for "Sleigh with Bells").[citation needed] A 2000 cover version of "Johnny" by Belgian musical group Vaya Con Dios that credited Paul prompted another action by the Romanian Musical Performing and Mechanical Rights Society.[45][46]
For many years Les Paul would sometimes surprise radio hosts Steve King and Johnnie Putman with a call to the "Life After Dark Show" on WGN (AM) in Chicago. These calls would take place in the wee hours of Tuesday Morning following his long-running Monday evening show at the Iridium Jazz Club in Manhattan. Until they ended their show on WGN, Steve and Johnnie continued to honor Les on Tuesday Mornings at 2:35 AM with their segment "A Little More Les" drawing from around 30 hours of recorded conversations with Les.
On August 12, 2009,[5][6][3] Paul died of complications from pneumonia at White Plains Hospital in White Plains, New York.[47] His family and friends were by his side.[48] Paul is survived by his four children and his companion Arlene Palmer.[49] His attorney told the media that he had made several hospital stays over the previous few months.[50] His last concert took place a few weeks before his death.
Upon learning of his death many artists and popular musicians paid tribute by publicly expressing their sorrow. After learning of Paul's death, former Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash called him "vibrant and full of positive energy.", while Richie Sambora, lead guitarist of Bon Jovi, referred to him as "revolutionary in the music business". U2 guitarist The Edge said, "His legacy as a musician and inventor will live on and his influence on rock and roll will never be forgotten." [51][52][53]
On August 21, 2009, he was buried near Milwaukee in Waukesha, Wisconsin at Prairie Home Cemetery which indicated that his plot would be in an area where visitors can easily view it.[54][55] Like his funeral in New York on August 19, the burial was private, but earlier in the day a public memorial viewing of the closed casket was held in Milwaukee at Discovery World with 1,500 attendees who were offered free admission to the Les Paul House of Sound exhibit for the day.[56]
Paul was initiated into the Gamma Delta chapter of the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity at the University of Miami in 1952.[57] He has earned the Presidential award from the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity.[58]
Les Paul has been acknowledged by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (aka The Recording Academy and NARAS) with various Grammy Awards. In 1979, Paul and Ford's 1951 recording of "How High the Moon" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.[59] Paul received a Grammy Trustees Award for his lifetime achievements in 1983, and in 2001 Paul was honored with the Special Merit/Technical Grammy Award, which recognizes "individuals or institutions that have set the highest standards of excellence in the creative application of audio technology," a select award given to masters of audio innovation including Thomas Alva Edison, Leo Fender, and Beatles recording engineer Geoff Emerick.[60]
In 1988, Paul was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by Jeff Beck, who said, "I've copied more licks from Les Paul than I'd like to admit." In 1991, the Mix Foundation established an annual award in his name; the Les Paul Award which honors "individuals or institutions that have set the highest standards of excellence in the creative application of audio technology".[61] In 2005, he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame for his development of the solid-body electric guitar.[62] In 2006, Paul was inducted into the National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame. He was named an honorary member of the Audio Engineering Society.[63] In 2007, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts.[64]
A one-hour biographical documentary film The Wizard of Waukesha was shown at the Los Angeles International Film Exposition (FILMEX) March 4–21, 1980, and later on PBS television. A biographical, feature-length documentary titled Chasing Sound: Les Paul at 90 made its world première on May 9, 2007, at the Downer Theater in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Paul appeared at the event and spoke briefly to the enthusiastic crowd. The film is distributed by Koch Entertainment and was broadcast on PBS on July 11, 2007, as part of its American Masters series[65][66] and was broadcast on October 17, 2008, on BBC Four as part of its Guitar Night. The première coincided with the final part of a three-part documentary by the BBC broadcast on BBC One The Story of the Guitar.
In June 2008, an exhibit showcasing his legacy and featuring items from his personal collection opened at Discovery World in Milwaukee.[67] The exhibit was facilitated by a group of local musicians under the name Partnership for the Arts and Creative Excellence (PACE).[68] Paul played a concert in Milwaukee to coincide with the opening of the exhibit.[69]
Paul's hometown of Waukesha is planning a permanent exhibit to be called "The Les Paul experience."[70]
In July 2005, a 90th-birthday tribute concert was held at Carnegie Hall in New York City. After performances by Steve Miller, Peter Frampton, Jose Feliciano and a number of other contemporary guitarists and vocalists, Paul was presented with a commemorative guitar from the Gibson Guitar Corporation.[71]
On November 15, 2008, he received the American Music Masters award through the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at a tribute concert at the State Theater in Cleveland, Ohio. Among the many guest performers were Duane Eddy, Eric Carmen, Lonnie Mack, Jennifer Batten, Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, Dennis Coffey, James Burton, Billy Gibbons, Lenny Kaye, Steve Lukather, Barbara Lynn, Katy Moffatt, Alannah Myles, Richie Sambora, The Ventures and Slash.
In February 2009, only months prior to his death, Les Paul sat down with Scott Vollweiler of Broken Records Magazine, in which would be one of Les Paul's final interviews. His candid answers were direct and emotional. Broken Records Magazine had planned to run that cover feature the following month but due to delays was held until the summer. 3 days before the release, Les Paul died. The issue would be his final cover feature of his storied career.[72]
In April 2009, Gerbren Deves did an extensive interview with him, which was published in the English Guitar Magazine just after his death.[citation needed]
In August, 2009, Paul was named one of the ten best electric guitar players of all-time by Time magazine.[73]
On June 9, 2010, which would have been Les Paul's 95th birthday, a tribute concert featuring Jeff Beck, Imelda May, Gary U.S. Bonds and Brian Setzer among others, was held at the Iridium Jazz Club where Les Paul played nearly every week almost to the end of his life. The concert was released on the live album Rock 'n' Roll Party (Honoring Les Paul) in 2011.
On June 9–10, 2011 Google celebrated what would have been Paul's 96th birthday with a Google doodle of an interactive guitar.[74]
On November 23, 2011, Paul was ranked at #18 on Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".[75]
In 2010, Paul was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame.[76]
Paul married Virginia Webb in 1938. They had two children, Gene (Lester Jr.), born in 1941 and named after actor-songwriter Gene Lockhart, and Russell (Rusty), born 1944, before divorcing in 1949. Later that year, Paul and Mary Ford (born Iris Colleen Summers) were married. They adopted a girl, Colleen, in 1958 and their son Robert (Bobby) was born the following year. They had also lost a child, who was born prematurely and died only four days old. Les Paul and Mary Ford divorced in 1963.[77]
Paul was the instructor of rock guitarist Steve Miller of the Steve Miller Band, to whom Paul gave his first guitar lesson.[78] Miller's father was best man at Paul's 1949 wedding to Mary Ford.
Paul resided for many years in Mahwah, New Jersey.
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1945 | "It's Been a Long, Long Time"(with Bing Crosby) | 1 | |||
1946 | "Rumors Are Flying"(with Andrews Sisters) | 4 | |||
1948 | "Lover" | 21 | |||
"Brazil" | 22 | ||||
"What Is This Thing Called Love?" | 11 | ||||
1950 | "Nola" | 9 | |||
"Goofus" | 21 | ||||
"Little Rock Getaway" | 18 | ||||
"Tennessee Waltz" | 6 | ||||
1951 | "Jazz Me Blues" | 23 | |||
"Mockin' Bird Hill"(gold record) | 2 | 7 | |||
"How High the Moon"(gold record) | 1 | 2 | |||
"Josephine" | 12 | ||||
"I Wish I Had Never Seen Sunshine" | 18 | ||||
"The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise"(gold record) | 2 | ||||
"Whispering" | 7 | ||||
"Just One More Chance" | 5 | ||||
"Jingle Bells" | 10 | ||||
1952 | "Tiger Rag" | 2 | |||
"I'm Confessin'" | 13 | ||||
"Carioca" | 14 | ||||
"In the Good Old Summertime" | 15 | ||||
"Smoke Rings" | 14 | ||||
"Meet Mr. Callahan" | 5 | ||||
"Take Me In Your Arms and Hold Me" | 15 | ||||
"Lady of Spain" | 8 | ||||
"My Baby's Comin' Home" | 7 | ||||
1953 | "Bye Bye Blues" | 5 | |||
"I'm Sittin' On Top of the World" | 10 | ||||
"Sleep" | 21 | ||||
"Vaya Con Dios"(gold record) | 1 | 7 | |||
"Johnny" | 15 | ||||
"The Kangaroo" | 25 | ||||
"Don'cha Hear Them Bells" | 13 | ||||
1954 | "I Really Don't Want To Know" | 11 | |||
"I'm a Fool To Care" | 6 | ||||
"Wither Thou Goest" | 10 | ||||
"Mandolino" | 19 | ||||
1955 | "Hummingbird" | 7 | |||
"Amukiriki" | 38 | ||||
"Magic Melody" | 96 | ||||
1956 | "Texas Lady" | 91 | |||
"Moritat" | 49 | ||||
"Nuevo Laredo" | 91 | ||||
1957 | "Cinco Robles" | 35 | |||
1958 | "Put a Ring On My Finger" | 32 | |||
1961 | "Jura" | 37 | |||
"It's Been a Long Long Time" | 105 |
Paul was also a prolific composer. Some of the songs he wrote were "Song in Blue", "Cryin'", "Hip-billy Boogie", "Suspicion", "Mandolino", "Magic Melody", "Don'cha Hear Them Bells", "The Kangaroo", "Big-Eyed Gal", "All I Need is You", "Mammy's Boogie", "Pacific Breeze", "Mountain Railroad", "Move Along, Baby (Don't Waste My Time)", "Dry My Tears", "Deep in the Blues", "I Don't Want You No More", "Doing the Town", "Les' Blues",[80] "No Strings Attached", "Subterfuge", "Lament For Strings", "Five Alarm Fire", "You Can't Be Fit as a Fiddle (When You're Tight as a Drum)", and "Walkin' and Whistlin' Blues".


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I am in the UNI Dome right now awaiting the NDSU-UNI game. This is the season opener for UNI, where as NDSU has a game and a win, a big win over a BCS conference foe in Kansas. I just saw the score that Kansas defeated Georgia Southern, who was ranked in the FCS Top 25.
I will take that with a grain of salt for this one as UNI has won the two MVFC games played between these two teams so I think I am in for a good contest tonight.
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Badgers added 2 walk-ons, including grandson of Alvarez
Madison - Wisconsin coach Gary Andersen on Thursday officially added two more walk-ons to bring the total for the 2013 class to four, with more expected.
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Madison Memorial quarterback Joe Ferguson, the grandson of athletic director Barry Alvarez, and offensive lineman Ben Hemer, who is from Medford and the brother of UW defensive tackle Ethan Hemer.
Ferguson, 6-foot-1 and 185 pounds, passed for 1,454 yards and 13 touchdowns and rushed for 406 yards and 11 touchdowns as a senior. However, because UW should have six scholarship quarterbacks in camp Ferguson is expected to be tried at a different position.
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MASSENA - The 90 golfers due to compete at the 76th annual Northern New York Six-Man Team Championship can expect ideal conditions at the Massena Country Club this Friday and Saturday.
The course is in phenomenal shape. Ive been playing golf here for a long time now. I still play six or seven times a week and Ive never seen the course in better shape, said Max Pelifian, who is serving as captain of the Massena six-man team. Were expecting to see a lot of great golf this weekend.
Led by individual medalist Tyler Woodward, Ives Hill Country Club of Watertown used a record-setting performance at the Watertown Golf Club to reclaim the team championship last summer. Also expected to be competing this weekend are teams from the Potsdam Town and Country Club, the St. Lawrence University Golf Course in Canton, the Malone Country Club, the Tupper Lake Country Club, the Gouverneur Country Club, the Watertown Golf Club and the Carlowden Country Club.
This year marks the first time in 10 years that the tournament is being held at the Massena Country Club and the host team is looking to end a 10-year drought.
The last time it was here was the last time we won it, noted Pelifian, who is the second man in the Massena lineup behind reigning club champion Justin Tyo.
The rest of the six-man team from Massena includes Tom Post, Matt Supernault, Anthony Viskovich and Lenny Garrow. Don LaBaff is the Senior Division representative and Omer St. Louis is the Super Senior Division rep.
Weve got a real nice team, said Pelifian. We have three golfers who played in college - Justin Tyo at St. John Fisher, Matt Supernault at SUNY Potsdam and Anthony Viskovich at LeMoyne.
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The newly enhanced program features the following for official city travel:
A complete list of all contracts and information may be seen on the Department of General Services Statewide Travel Program Web page: http://www.dgs.ca.gov/travel.
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In these challenging economic times, government entities are taking a hard look at managing their business travel and reducing travel spending. The State of California, DGS, Statewide Travel Program offers efficient and cost-effective travel management services to government entities and provides the most economical rates and fares available through the use of State negotiated contracts for airlines, car rentals, travel management services, and travel payment system. By leveraging the State's total travel spending, the Statewide Travel Program gains the advantage of the best pricing model available.
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How does the billing work? Will AMEX be billing monthly for the BTA?
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