So many stars mingled in fashionable bliss at the launch of Max Mara‘s pop-up boutique in Soho on Tuesday (September 12).
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Ray Hildebrand, the singer-songwriter whose duet “Hey Paula” with his friend Jill Jackson under the names Paul and Paula became a million-selling #1 hit in 1963, died August 18 of dementia at his home in Overland Park, Kansas. He was 82.
His death was announced to The New York Times by his son-in-law Larry Serling.
The song, a tender ballad in which two young lovers trade verses pledging their affections and desire to marry, was something of a 1950s-style teen pop doo-wop holdover that captured a radio-listening audience just before the Beatles-led British Invasion took over the airwaves. The song remains a staple of Golden Oldies fare, and has been used as an era-signifying backdrop in period movies from National Lampoon’s Animal House to modern-day TV series like Halt and Catch Fire.
Written by Hildebrand when he was a college student and originally titled “Paul and Paula” as performed by the then-named duo Jill and Ray, the song (and the duo) underwent a name change to “Hey Paula” (by Paul and Paula) when Mercury Records signed the singing friends to a contract and reissued the record on the Philips label.
Although the duo would record follow-up songs, none of the releases matched the success of “Hey Paula,” and Hildebrand decided fairly early in their musical career that life on the road wasn’t for him. In 1965, during a tour on the Dick Clark Caravan of Stars traveling show, Hildebrand abruptly quit the pop business, turning instead to Christian music and a long-held position with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes in Kansas City, Mo.
He and Jackson remained lifelong friends, and reunited occasionally throughout the decades for oldies shows and nostalgia tours.
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So many stars mingled in fashionable bliss at the launch of Max Mara‘s pop-up boutique in Soho on Tuesday (September 12).
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