A Trip Down Guitar Memory Lane

My favorite part of the Lawrence Welk Show, back in the black and white TV era, before the pastel leisure suit band uniforms, was when Buddy Merrill would do a guitar number. Here is Buddy doing a little tribute to Les Paul.



Speaking of Les Paul, here is a video of Les and his wife, Mary Ford, singing and playing along with 24 tracks of music history. I remember the first time that I heard this song on the radio. I had a feeling similar to the one that I had the first time I heard the Beatles. Sort of like, "Did this music come from Earth or from some other galaxy?"

You know that you're pretty good when the guitar model is YOUR NAME!