13 August 2007

Les Paul

Les Paul was one of the giants of mid-20th-century popular music, pioneering the development of the solid-body electric guitar and virtually inventing multitrack recording. Here is one of the string of hits he recorded with his wife Mary Ford in the early 1950s:



Multitrack recording has been used by generations of musicians over the past more than half a century, including this obscure Upper Canadian vocal quartet singing Psalm 95 (Text and music copyright © 1986, 1999 by David T. Koyzis).

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