Paul & Paula

Getting a number-one pop hit was easy for West Texans Ray Hildebrand and Jill Jackson. The duo were students at Howard Payne College when they answered a call for entertainers to volunteer to benefit the American Cancer Society. They sang "Hey Paula," a song Hildebrand wrote. It went over so well that everybody encouraged them to make a record. Major Bill Smith's LeCam label in Fort Worth, Texas, had just scored a major hit with Bruce Channel, so they drove there late in 1962 hoping for an unscheduled audition. Smith was busy recording that Saturday, but they hung around any...