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12-01-2025, 05:47 PM
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Song 'Hold That Tiger' by Les Paul and Mary Ford
Coming home from a dance last night. Heard a song I never heard before by Les Paul and Mary Ford. I believe title is Tiger Rag from 1950s. In the song it repeats 'Hold That Tiger,' hold that tiger,etc. Thought interesting song for the GTO.
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12-01-2025, 07:10 PM
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Wow, I haven't thought about Les in some time. I feel quite privileged to have caught his regular weekly gig at Fat Tuesday's in New York. I went with my good friend, George, the guitar player from my jazz fusion group. When we got in and got seated, we were right up front, and Les leaned down and said, "Hey, George! Glad you could make it!" He was quite a guy.
He spoke about Mary, too, and told his bass player that when he (the bassist, who was probably 30-40 years Les' junior) passed, he'd just have him stuffed, too , and would have to find somebody else to play bass. Hysterical. (Les was in his mid 80's at the time, I guess.) Les Paul and Mary Ford recorded the Tiger Rag in '52. The chart itself goes back to Dixieland, before 1920. Les & Mary's version would indeed be fitting for the GTO!
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12-01-2025, 07:48 PM
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Definitely an old standard from way back. I first heard it many years ago as a Bob Wills recording.
https://www.jazzstandards.com/compos...2/tigerrag.htm https://youtu.be/qXcvfgGKIVg?si=biAgwGowVnoby_qW
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12-01-2025, 08:32 PM
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Read a little about how the title came about.i think a saxophonist down south could almost get the instrument to sound like a tiger roaring! So the title Hold That Tiger. I use to listen to them on the radio when I was young.
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12-02-2025, 12:10 AM
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My grandmother used to sing that phrase at random times when I was real young.
She said it was an old song. Seems like I actually heard it a couple of times , way way back. |
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