FYI: YOU signed - thanks!!!
Robin & Joan Rolfs wrote:
Thank you for the posting Steve,
Great timing as our WIMAPS (Wisconsin-Illinois Musical Antique Phonograph
Society) group will be having a meeting this Saturday in Waukesha, WI,
home
of "The Wizard of Waukesha." We plan to tour the recently opened Les
Paul
permanent exhibit at the museum and then pay tribute at his impressive
grave
site.
Remarks from his early music teacher are reminiscent of those said of
Edison. His childhood piano teacher wrote to his mother, "Your boy,
Lester,
will never learn music." By the time he was a teenager Lester was
playing
with country bands in the Midwest. In Chicago he performed for radio
broadcasts on WLS. He is buried alongside his mother (1888-1989) who
encouraged him to pursue his interests. Les would remark, "Two women
in my
life made me who I am: my mother and Mary." (Ford)
A stamp commemorating Les Paul would be great.
Robin & Joan Rolfs
----- Original Message ----- From: <srsel...@aol.com>
To: <Phono-l@oldcrank.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2013 8:11 AM
Subject: [Phono-L] If Edison was alive he'd vote for a Les Paul Stamp
too!
I'm posting this here because Les Paul always acknowledged Edison as the
Greatest Inventor. (And Paul actually recorded some Edison wax cylinders
in
the 1990s (at the Edison Site in West Orange) - though they have yet to
be
released. So see here for details and sign the petition.
http://lespaulfoundation.org/spotlight.html
Steve Ramm
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