Listen to this Les Paul recording. It was the fifth most popular song in the United States in nineteen fifty-two.

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During the nineteen fifties, Les Paul and Mary Ford recorded many hit songs including "Mockingbird Hill" and "How High the Moon."

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Les Paul is best known for creating one of the first solid-body electric guitars and the eight-track recording device.

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By the nineteen sixties, Les Paul and Mary Ford's series of hits came to an end and they later ended their marriage.

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He invented the "Les Paulverizer" device which permitted a performer to echo,or repeat, his or her music.

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Les Paul produced a series of extremely popular recordings that introduced the public to his music.

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To make his guitar, Les Paul attached guitar strings and two electronic pickup devices onto a flat piece of wood from a railroad track.

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Today we tell about Les Paul, one of the most influential people in modern popular music.

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The next year,Les Paul had a serious car accident that left him with severe injuries.

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On the album, Les Paul plays with guitar greats including Jeff Beck and Keith Richards.

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To make this song, Les Paul layered eight recordings of himself playing the electric guitar.

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In the nineteen seventies, Les Paul made two records with the country guitarist Chet Atkins.

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The song gives a good example of Les Paul's experimental style and inventive spirit.

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The Gibson Guitar Company began producing its famous Les Paul Guitar in nineteen fifty-two.

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The Gibson Guitar Company hired Paul to design a special "Les Paul" guitar.

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Les Paul played with many famous performers including the popular singer Bing Crosby.

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She sings the soulful song "Hold Me Again" with jazz great Les McCann.

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These French-speaking hunters named them "les Trois Tetons" -- "the Three Breasts."

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The electric guitar Les Paul helped develop made modern blues music possible.

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His last record was "Les Paul and Friends: American Made World Played."

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Les Paul was born Lester William Polfuss in nineteen fifteen in Waukesha,Wisconsin.

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His nineteen-oh-seven painting "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" turned the art world upside down.

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Les Paul was not the only person to make a solid-body guitar.

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Les Paul wanted an instrument in which only the strings vibrated.

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