Chords for Les Paul & Mary Ford on "Omnibus" (1953)

[B] today by learning the tricks of a rather special trade, _ that [Gm] of two of America's most fabulous
[Bb]
music makers.
Now this couple, they are man and wife, _ started making records three years ago
and since then they have sold 15 million records.
If you started playing their records,
_ after Omnibus of course, if you started and played them one right after another, _
you'd be lucky to come [Am] through in August 2020.
You'd [Ab] be lucky and you might help.
This is their [C] music. _ _
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[Gm] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
Now if [N] the sales figures are on the level, I think there's no question that two out of three
of you at least know that this is the music [Fm] of Les Paul [C] and Mary Gordon.
Here they are.
Mary,
good to see you.
[Bb] Les, thank you.
There is a widespread belief that they use this
electronic machine that is about as simple as a cyclotron and we have a model here just to
show you what this popular conception is of their music.
This for instance here, that cuts off the
600 ohm line.
[F] This is frequency control here and this high and low pass filter _ and you have to have
a tweeter and whopper speaker to hear it played back _ and if you got a cinema fuzzer of course you
can raise and lower each end and do anything you want with it.
Well, let's see what comes out.
Well it's just about [Bb] ready here. _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
Got it?
[Bbm] Got it.
What does the machine do to it?
All right, now
if you want to hear that back in five parts, _ _ set this here. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Uh, just long as there isn't smoke.
Now _ [Bb] that should _ do it. _ _ _ _ _ _
[Ab] _ Hear [Db] _ [Ebm] _ _ [Gm] _ [E] _
[Db] _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [Bbm] _
_ _ [Dbm] _ _ [Fm] _ _ [Bb] _ _
them bells, don't you [N] hear them bells, they are ringing out the glory of the land. _
Hear them bells, don't you hear them bells, they are ringing out the glory of the land. _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
[A] _ _ This is a fake, this whole thing.
Yes it is.
Well you see ladies and gentlemen, _ [Bb]
this is the final demolition
of this popular and ignorant rumor that the basis of Les Paul and Mary Forrest's music is electronics.
They make music the way people have made music since the world began.
First of all they are
musicians.
They have an accurate ear for harmony.
They work very hard.
They have a lot of patience
and they take advantage of the trick which granted electronics makes possible.
That you can record
one part of a song and then you can play it back to yourself and then you can accompany that part
and keep on recording.
That I think is the basis now quite seriously.
They work, they have a setup
which is nothing more than tape recorders in their own home and in fact they are working day and night.
We just grabbed them because they have their own television show but maybe they've got time to tell us
how you really make your record.
Starting at A and moving slowly on to B.
Seriously.
Seriously, on the level.
We turn the tape machines on.
They're just a standard regular _ Ampex tape machine _ and _
we play the first part on the guitar.
This is the rhythm part. _
[A] _ _ [D] _ [N] _ _ _ _ _
Now you put your earphones on
and you play another part to it.
Is that right?
That's right.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [C] Got it?
I get the idea now of the [F] background.
That's the background.
That's the background.
You play this, all this to Mary.
Is that right or does she
do it separately?
Well Mary will hear the part that's already made and then she sings on to it.
I see.
[E] First I'll make the first part first.
Okay.
Want to set Mary?
Give me a G chord.
[Bb] _ _ [C] Somewhere there's music, [Bbm] how faint the tune.
_ [C] Somewhere there's heaven, how high the moon.
_ _ _ Now I'll add a tenor part to that.
Wait a minute. _ _ _
You're on.
Okay.
[Eb] Somewhere there's music, [Bb] how faint the tune.
_ [N] Somewhere there's heaven, how high the moon.
What's the most tracks you've ever made?
Well the most that we've
put out on the market is 12 guitars and 12 of Mary singing.
Does that mean _ 24 tracks?
Very good. _ _ _ _
Well, _ could you play that back to us and maybe put in a 25th?
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_ _ [D] _ _ [Gbm] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bm] _
[Gbm] _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ [Ab] _ [A] _ _ Until you will know my heart I'll hide.
[B] _ [C] _
[A] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _
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[A] _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] _
[A] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _
[Em] _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ [A] Somewhere _ _ _
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_ [A] there's _ [Gbm] music,
[A] _ _
[Gbm] _ _ [C] _ _ [Gb] _ _ [Am] _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ [Em] _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ _ [D] how _ [A] faint the tune.
[Gbm] _ _ _ Until [Dbm] you will [Cm] know my [Bm] heart. _
[E] _ _ _ [A] _ _ [D] _ [F] _ [A] _
_ [Em] _ _ _ [A] _ _ [G] _ _