THE WIZARDING WORLD OF LES PAUL

(Among many things he invented also the harmonica holder.)



At the age of 10, Les Paul encountered his first musical problem.
You see, he had been playing the harmonica for a couple of years and had gotten pretty good.
But his new love was the guitar – specifically an acoustic one he had bought with money saved from his paper route in Waukesha, Wisconsin.

06.09.2010 Bryan Wawzenek
The Wizarding World of Les Paul

'Gasoline Blues' CHARLEY JORDAN, Blues Guitar Legend

(between 1930-1950)




youtube.com/watch?v=pZz5FF0c50M&fmt=18

+ wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charley_Jordan

ONLINE BIOGRAPHIES: THE BEACH BOYS

The seminal line-up of this celebrated US pop band comprised brothers

Brian Wilson (b. 20 June 1942, Hawthorne, California, USA),

Carl Wilson (b. 21 December 1946, Hawthorne, California, d. 6 February 1998, Los Angeles, California, USA) and

Dennis Wilson (b. 4 December 1944, Hawthorne, California, USA, d. 28 December 1983),

their cousin Mike Love (b. 15 March 1941, Baldwin Hills, California, USA),

and school friend Al Jardine (b. 3 September 1942, Lima, Ohio, USA).

When the aforementioned quintet formed a casual singing group in Hawthorne in summer 1961, they unconsciously created one of the longest running, compulsively fascinating and bitterly tragic sagas in popular music.

http://www.tunegenie.com/bio/MN0000041874/the-beach-boys/

+ http://www.80sretromusic.com/biography/B/beachboys.htm

+ http://www.skooldays.com/categories/music/mu1170.htm

THE TOP 5 LES PAUL SONGS YOU NEED TO LISTEN TO (AND WATCH) RIGHT NOW

Sites and sounds you don't want to miss from a career filled with memorable highlights

Les Paul was not only a music icon, but without him music recording as we know it today, would not exist.
If you are a musician or work in the industry, not a day goes by that you aren’t touched by something Paul influenced.

Katy Hatley, 08/14/2009
http://www.collegenews.com/index.php?/ear_candy/5_favories_from_guitar_hero_les_paul_986838383/

+ update 2009-08
http://smileysmile.net/board/index.php?PHPSESSID=0b3db25eb386fb326da0d3b6046a0441&topic=7680.0

PROFESSOR LONGHAIR THE “REAL KING OF ROCK & ROLL”

Okay, children, sit up and pay attention. It’s music history time.

There are many who claim the title of the “King of Rock & Roll.” Carl Perkins, Elvis, Little Richard, but for those who really know the score, the “Real King of Rock & Roll” was Henry Roeland Byrd, more universally known as “Professor Longhair.”

2009 Apr 6 oldsalt1942.wordpress.com
http://oldsalt1942.wordpress.com/2009/04/06/professor-longhair-the-real-king-of-rock-roll/

TRIBUTES TO LEGENDARY SINGER CAP TRAVELING DISPLAY

Words and music, powerful music, closed out the Smithsonian Institution show "New Harmonies" at the Louisiana State Oil and Gas Museum in Oil City on Sunday.

The music was by Lead Belly, the singular and impassioned folk singer who was born Huddie Ledbetter and is buried just a dozen miles from the museum site, and the words were as much by him as anyone else, voiced by his great-nephew Alvin Singh.

(2009 Jan 12 / John Andrew Prime)
http://www.shreveporttimes.com/article/20090112/NEWS01/901120325

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