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At 7:17 PM -0800 11/23/02, Mark Landman wrote: >Someone call Les and let him know he invented sampling too! I think it's pretty clear that sampling was pioneered by the radio sound effects guys. They used to do some amazing things with combinations of real noisemakers and recordings. It was common to have record turntables with more than one tone arm so they could play several tracks as once. >As far as Les goes, I was only about 17 when I saw him and his "Les >Paulverizer" on TV, and at the time knew or cared nothing about Les >or Looping, but decades later I remember it because the music he did >was SO good, whether it was sampling, looping or plain gimmickryŠ My first exposure to overdubbing was a mid-50s Walt Disney program where Peggy Lee recorded both voices in the Siamese cat duet from Lady and the Tramp. Avant garde! >Now if we can just get the Bing Crosby replacement voice technology >into Loop V: ) Slightly OT, but have you heard John Oswald's Plunderphonic version of Crosby's "White Christmas"? -- ______________________________________________________________ Richard Zvonar, PhD (818) 788-2202 http://www.zvonar.com http://RZCybernetics.com