Album Review:
The New Sound/Les Paul's New Sound, Vol. 2
- Release Date: 2000
- Genre: Vocal Music
- Label: Collectables
- Artist: Les Paul
- Flags: Compilation (best of)
- Type: Compilation
- Rating:
Review
Despite the joint billing, Mary Ford is only a minor presence on this CD reissue of two original albums. She doesn't appear at all on The New Sound, a 1950 album of guitar instrumentals featuring Les Paul's pioneering tape manipulations that combine breakthrough multi-track recording with frenetic sped-up guitar playing. Les Paul's New Sound, made the following year, is subtitled "The New Sound, Vol. 2" and features Ford's vocals on about half of the tracks, usually accompanied only by Paul's multi-tracked guitar. The gospel song "Don't Cha Hear Them Bells" is the one exception, with the fullest and most conventional-sounding arrangement on the album. New Sound is packed with Paul's instrumental hits, but it wouldn't be until the following year that his collaborations with Mary Ford would really start to click with record-buyers. ~ Greg Adams, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | iTunes | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Brazil | Bob Russell, |
Les Paul & Mary Ford | (2:36) | |
| Hip-Billy Boogie | Les Paul | Les Paul & Mary Ford | (2:32) | |
| Swiss Woodpecker | Traditional | Les Paul & Mary Ford | (2:20) | |
| Caravan |  |
Irving Mills, Duke Ellington, Juan Tizol | Les Paul & Mary Ford | (3:00) |
| Sleep | Earl Lebieg | Les Paul & Mary Ford | (2:03) | |
| Lady of Spain | Stanley Damerell, Tolchard Evans, Robert Hargreaves, Henry Tilsley | Les Paul & Mary Ford | (1:52) | |
| Lover | Les Paul & Mary Ford | (2:48) | ||
| The Man on the Flying Trapeze | George Leybourne | Les Paul & Mary Ford | (2:45) | |
| By the Light of the Silvery Moon | Edward Madden, |
Les Paul & Mary Ford | (3:06) | |
| What Is This Thing Called Love? | Les Paul & Mary Ford | (2:40) | ||
| Nola | Felix Arndt | Les Paul & Mary Ford | (2:37) | |
| South | Bennie Moten, Thamon Hayes, Dick Charles | Les Paul & Mary Ford | (2:01) | |
| In the Good Old Summertime | Ren Shields, George Evans | Les Paul & Mary Ford | (2:10) | |
| Three Little Words | Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby | Les Paul & Mary Ford | (1:57) | |
| Lonesome Road | Gene Austin, Nat Shilkret | Les Paul & Mary Ford | (2:51) | |
| Chicken Reel | Les Paul & Mary Ford | (2:09) | ||
| I'm Confessin' (That I Love You) | Al J. Neiburg, Ellis Reynolds, Doc Daugherty | Les Paul & Mary Ford | (2:51) | |
| The Carioca | Vincent Youmans, |
Les Paul & Mary Ford | (2:33) | |
| I Can't Give You Anything But Love | Jimmy McHugh, |
Les Paul & Mary Ford | (1:57) | |
| Just One More Chance | Arthur Johnston, |
Les Paul & Mary Ford | (1:55) | |
| I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles | Jean Kenbrovin, John Kellette | Les Paul & Mary Ford | (2:59) | |
| The Moon of Manakoora | Frank Loesser, Alfred Newman | Les Paul & Mary Ford | (2:47) | |
| Don' Cha Hear Them Bells | Les Paul & Mary Ford | (1:59) | ||
| La Rosita | Allan Stuart, Paul Dupont | Les Paul & Mary Ford | (2:24) |
