Interview with Les Paul, February 9, 1999
Project: Chasing Sound Oral History Project
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Les Paul discusses his musical and recording career, and various recording methods and inventions he employed/created during the 1930s between Chicago and New York.Interview Accession
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Les Paul Les Paul House of Sound Recording studios Decca Records Audio engineers Recording methods Recording technologies Music history Music--History--20th Century Crosby, Bing (artist) Rich, Lloyd Radio broadcasting The Daily News in Chicago Chicago music history Chicago broadcasting history Recording lathes Multi-tracking Music history in New York Record manufacturing Recording industry Recording businessInterview Rights
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Paul, Les Interview by Susan Schmidt Horning. 09 Feb. 1999. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Paul, L. (1999, February 09). Interview by S. S. Horning. Chasing Sound Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Paul, Les, interview by Susan Schmidt Horning. February 09, 1999, Chasing Sound Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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