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"How High the Moon": This is Emmylou Harris from 1981, with no less than Tony Rice, Ricky Skaggs AND Jerry Douglas taking outstanding leads:


And this is the arrangement she took as her model, Les Paul the inventor and Mary Ford, with his customary tape reels rolling, enabling the multiple vocal parts and guitars, thirty years prior in 1951:

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Same arrangement, exactly. And who can blame her.

YouTube commenter: "Pardon us while we invent modern recording".

A more complete video whence this was taken, Alistair Cooke from 1953, giving an introduction to Les Paul's groundbreaking multitracking techniques, complete with a large fake machine before he actually shows the tape decks. But eventually you get some context as to how he did it.

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Though the first video indicated "1951" that was the date of the record release, which was 'number one' right about this time of year 68 years ago. The TV show was from 1953 using a by-then well known tune.

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Fun fact -- when Les Paul was a wee tyke his school sent a note home to advise his parents not to bother with music lessons as he "wasn't musically inclined".