* The Log ( guitar ), a nickname given to Les Paul's first solid-body electric guitar built in the 1930s

As Les Paul biographer Mary Alice Shaughnessy noted of Paul's association with The Andrews Sisters, " Les welcomed the opportunity to study them in full flight.

Paul's most-recognizable recordings from then through the mid-1970s were an album for London Records / Phase 4 Stereo, Les Paul Now ( 1968 ), on which he updated some of his earlier hits ; and, backed by some of Nashville's celebrated studio musicians, a meld of jazz and country improvisation with fellow guitar virtuoso Chet Atkins, Chester and Lester ( 1976 ), for RCA Victor.

Paul's hometown of Waukesha is planning a permanent exhibit to be called " The Les Paul experience.

In February 2009, only months prior to his death, Les Paul sat down with Scott Vollweiler of Broken Records Magazine, in which would be one of Les Paul's final interviews.

On June 9, 2010, which would have been Les Paul's 95th birthday, a tribute concert featuring Jeff Beck, Imelda May, Gary U. S. Bonds and Brian Setzer among others, was held at the Iridium Jazz Club where Les Paul played nearly every week almost to the end of his life.

The initial design of the capitol dome was influenced by a number of European church domes, particularly St. Paul's in London, St. Peter's in Rome, the Panthéon in Paris, Les Invalides in Paris, and St. Isaac ’ s Cathedral in St. Petersburg.

He also guested occasionally on radio as late as 1946, often with Edgar Bergen, and just before his death that same year he recorded a spoken-word album, delivering his comic " Temperance Lecture " and " The Day I Drank A Glass Of Water " at Les Paul's studio, in which Paul had just installed his new multi-track recorder.

Gibson honored Les Paul's request, and the new model was renamed " SG ", which stood for ' Solid Guitar '.

The SG's set neck is shallower than the Gibson Les Paul's, but features the traditional Gibson combination of two humbucker pickups and a Tune-o-matic bridge assembly ( or vibrato tailpiece, depending on the model ).

Unlike the Les Paul's neck, which joins the body at the 16th fret, the SG's neck joins the body at the 19th fret, which allows easier access to higher frets.

The first of these machines cost $ 10, 000 and was installed in Les Paul's home recording studio by David Sarser.

" In the late 1940s, solidbody electric guitars began to emerge in popularity, yet they were still considered novelty items with the Rickenbacker Spanish Electro guitar being the most commercially available solidbody, and Les Paul's one-off home-made " Log " and the Bigsby Travis guitar made by Paul Bigsby for Merle Travis being the most visible early examples.

* Les Paul's New Sound with Mary Ford, Vol.

That year saw the introduction of their first solid body, the Gibson Les Paul, based on Les Paul's experiment, " The Log ," which was merely a fence post with a neck, hardware, and pickup attached.

Crosby gave one of the first production models to musician Les Paul, which led directly to Paul's invention of multitrack recording.

Les Paul's version was a guitar instrumental released by Capitol Records in 1948.

During his tenure, Les Paul's electric guitar design, the first solid-body guitar produced by Gibson, came to fruition.

A French language edition was published by Oriflam under license from Chaosium under the name Les Dieux Nomades in 1994.

In the early twenties, he and other members of Les six frequented a wildly popular bar named Le Boeuf sur le Toit, a name that Cocteau himself had a hand in picking.

The name was later changed to " Les Films du Dauphin ".

The origin of the name is uncertain: it has naturally been connected with the legend of Circe, and Victor Bérard ( in Les Phéniciens et l ' Odyssée, ii.

* 1912: Les Amours d ' Elisabeth, Reine d ' Angleterre ( Queen Elizabeth ; a major success ) A four-reel condensation of the play of the same name.

Les Misérables is a 1935 American drama film starring Fredric March and Charles Laughton based upon the famous Victor Hugo novel of the same name.

The Pansy is the flower of Osaka, Japan, and was the name of the Epiphone Elitist Les Paul Custom guitar with an Alpine White finish played by guitarist Frank Iero ( whose nickname, coincidentally, is also Pansy ) of the band My Chemical Romance.

* In the Les Luthiers ' Unen canto con humor comedy show is referred in a sketch by Daniel Rabinovich and Marcos Mundstock, but Daniel improperly pronounces her name, calling her " Esther Píscore ".

* " El beso de Ariadna " (" Ariadne's Kiss ") is the name of a musical comedy act by Argentinian comedy-musical group Les Luthiers.

In 1943, for her first novel published Les Impudents, she decided to use as pen name the surname of Duras, a village in the Lot-et-Garonne département, where her father's house was located.

His most popular works include Le bœuf sur le toit ( a ballet which lent its name to the legendary cabaret frequented by Milhaud and other members of Les Six ), La création du monde ( a ballet for small orchestra with solo saxophone, influenced by jazz ), Scaramouche ( for saxophone and piano, also for two pianos ), and Saudades do Brasil ( dance suite ).

The county name originated with one Thomas Ogier, of Les Duvaux, Guernsey.

Les Six is a name, inspired by Mily Balakirev's The Five, given in 1920 by critic Henri Collet in an article titled "" ( Comoedia, 16 January 1920 ) to a group of six composers working in Montparnasse.

After World War I, Jean Cocteau and Les Six began to frequent a bar known as " La gaya " which became Le Bœuf sur le Toit ( The Ox on the Roof ) when the establishment moved to larger quarters and as the famous ballet by Milhaud had been conceived at the old premises, the new bar took on the name of Milhaud's ballet.

While it seems apparent that Cocteau was behind these articles, the actual name of the Group was selected by Collet, who decided to compare Les Six with the five Russians.

The Prussian family name was first simplified by his mother to Polfuss before he took his stage name of Les Paul.

" In 1991, the Mix Foundation established an annual award in his name ; the Les Paul Award which honors " individuals or institutions that have set the highest standards of excellence in the creative application of audio technology ".

The name Oberon got its literary start in the first half of the 13th century from the fairy dwarf Oberon that helps the hero in the chanson de geste, titled Les Prouesses et faitz du noble Huon de Bordeaux.

He was highly demanding and bad-tempered, unable to maintain longstanding partnerships with his librettists, with the exception of Louis de Cahusac, who collaborated with him on several operas, including Les fêtes de l ' Hymen et de l ' Amour ( 1747 ), Zaïs ( 1748 ), Naïs ( 1749 ), Zoroastre ( 1749 ; revised 1756 ), La naissance d ' Osiris ( 1754 ), and Anacréon ( the first of Rameau's operas by that name, 1754 ).

Paul Sérusier galvanized Les Nabis, and provided the name and disseminated the example of Paul Gauguin among them.

Between 6 – 8 April 1912 he wrote his long poem, Les Pâques à New York ( Easter in New York ), his first important contribution to modern literature, signing it ( for the first time ) with the name Blaise Cendrars.

With Emil Szittya, an anarchist writer, he started the journal Les hommes nouveaux, also the name of the press where he published Les Pâques à New York and Séquences.

Les Melroe and advertising agent Lynn Bickett settled on the " Bobcat " name while exchanging name ideas during a drive between Minneapolis and Gwinner, and Bickett and Sylvan Melroe developed the " tough, quick, and agile " slogan used in advertising the early loaders.