In Perfect Harmony

It's my opinion that this is the finest collection of Les Paul material available in one package. Four CDs contain songs from his earliest professional recordings including several Bing Crosby numbers, all the way through the Mary Ford era. This set has a good mix of instrumentals as well as songs with singing. It's also the only set I've found that has all the songs I was really looking for. Instead of buying 2 or 3 Les Paul CDs to get all your favorites, I'd just buy this 4-CD package and get them all in one nicely produced set. It comes with a book that has great information and pictures. Sound quality is great! Highlights: How High the Moon, The World is Waiting For the Sunrise, In the Good Ol' Summertime, Mockinbird Hill, Caravan, Goofus, Tiger Rag, Vaya Con Dios, I Really Don't Want To Know, Bye Bye Blues, Smoke Rings, Meet Mr Callaghan, I'm a Fool to Care, Tennessee Waltz and sooo much more!

Getting this 4 CD bx set for my father for fathers day. I already have it in my I-Pod. I also have 2 tributes to Les Paul. 1 is by Jeff Beck live in New York, the other is by various classic rock artists. if that doesn't tell ya how great he was nothin will.

A great look at a the new multi-track recording techniques in the early 50s..

You must hear these fabulous musicians. They invented over-dubbing in the early Fifties. Super. And Mary's lusty voice.

I got this second hand thinking it looked interesting but when I got it home I realized it was some kind of public domain or grey area thing. Every bit of it was lifted from "Les Paul Complete Decca Trios" and "The Legend And The Legacy" box sets pretty much. (Which I already own) Not "proper" at all, Proper Records. Stinks.

Anyone buying this 4-CD set on the strength of its title and misleading Product Description may be in for a rude awakening (quite literally) because it begins in 1936, nine years before Mary's first record, with Les accompanying blues singer Georgia White in five numbers, three of which are not for the easily (and not so easily) offended. Other singers include Bing Crosby, Helen Forrest, Dick Haymes, and the Andrews Sisters; in fact, Mary Ford does not appear until halfway through the second disc. If you're not looking solely for recordings covering the partnership, and want to learn more of Les Paul's formative years and subsequent career (both from the recordings and Joop Visser's exemplary notes - in an illustrated 44-page booklet) then you'll enjoy this 20-year conspectus. If not, be warned in advance.

I won't bother to repeat all the laudatory stuff about the great man that's been written since he died.Suffice it to say that if you ever had anything to do with guitar music or sound recording, you owe him.I've always loved music rich in sound effects and of course LP was the inventor of most of them, but the first album of the set predates most of that, and instead presents us with a series of "normal" recordings,(as normal as he ever got that is).This is why the 5th star's missing.They're still brilliant by anyone elses standards, but not his.(But there are some rollicking risque ballads on it that cheer things up no end).The middle two discs give us most of his solo, and Mary Ford hits, with all the instrumental, vocal, and electronically "Paulverised" fireworks you'd expect.I lack the patience to trawl through all of the myriad "best ofs" that are out there in cyber-land,to verify this, so it's up to you to check it out.The last disc is more of the same, but somewhat lacking in that vital spark that the earlier works had.To me, Les Paul was at his best when he was sounding almost like a Tex Avery cartoon looks.Quintessentially American in flavour,impossibly fast moving,funny,referencing umpteen different things at once,and with a strong streak of surrealism.By these criteria some of the last tracks are a bit formulaic or laid back.This product arrived on time (given the season and the weather),was cheap, and in good condition,and came with a very informative accompanying booklet.A good buy!

Great compilation; takes me back to my dad's 78's.

If you speak o a guitar player this is the one unbelieved what this man can play and not forgetting his former wife Mary a good singer to listen too

Bought this as a little gift for a Les Paul fan. He was very pleased with it as with previous ones I have bought him.

Great collection! Tons of good tunes packed on four discs.A must buy for Les Paul fans!