During the nineteen fifties, Les Paul and Mary Ford recorded many hit songs including "Mockingbird Hill" and "How High the Moon."

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By the nineteen sixties, Les Paul and Mary Ford's series of hits came to an end and they later ended their marriage.

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Mary Ford performed on Les Paul's radio show.

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" It was a triumph for secularism that, as Paul Leicester Ford wrote only half in jest, "should have made the true Puritan turn in his grave.

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May also shared vocals with Beck on songs like How High The Moon and Vaya con Dios, which were made famous by Paul and Mary Ford.

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Foundations created by Henry Ford and John Paul Getty bestow millions on good causes every year.

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