- Their real names were Ray Hildebrand (1940-2023) and Jill Jackson (born 1943). They teamed up while at college in Texas.
- Ray Hildebrand recorded a Christian music album in 1967 called He's Everything to Me. He became best known among Christian music fans for his 1970s hit song "Anybody Here Wanna Live Forever?" Subsequently, Hildebrand joined up with another Christian performer, Paul Land, and during the 1980s and 1990s, they performed comedy and Christian music under the name of Land & Hildebrand.
- In 1962, when a local disc jockey, Riney Jordan, of station KEAN, asked listeners to come to the studio and sing their songs to help the American Cancer Society. The duo sang a song called "Hey Paula," which Hildebrand wrote; the lyrics were inspired by a friend of his, Russell Berry, whose fiancée was named Paula. Jordan decided that Hildebrand and Jackson should record the song, and they did.
- In 1963, American Bandstand signed Paul & Paula to Dick Clark's Caravan of Stars national U.S. tour, which was scheduled to perform its 15th show on the night of November 22, 1963, at the Memorial Auditorium in Dallas, until suddenly the Friday evening event had to be cancelled after U.S. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated that afternoon.
- The duo released two regular albums and a Christmas-themed album after the success of "Hey Paula", which charted at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for the entire month of February 1963. Their follow-up, "Young Lovers", reached number six on the Billboard chart later in the same year.
- Ray Hildebrand, who topped the pop charts in the 1960s as half of the duo Paul & Paula, died the 18th August 2023 in Kansas City at age 82.
- After their days as a singing duo, Jill and Ray remained friends, and well into the early 2000s, they occasionally would get together to sing as Paul & Paula for special events, such as oldies shows.
- In 2002, Hildebrand and Jackson returned to Howard Payne University in Brownwood, Texas,[9] where they were the homecoming guests of honor and grand marshals.
- "Hey Paula" sold over two million copies globally, and was awarded a gold disc by the Recording Industry Association of America in 1963.
- They were an American pop singing duo, best known for their 1963 million-selling, number-one hit record, "Hey Paula".
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