Meeting with Les Paul about Snoozer Quinn

Short excerpt from my interview with Les on Snoozer, from Sept. 22, 2008. Audio is pretty poor. Thank goodness I got a backup!! And Eddie Lang passed away in 1933..... Maybe I can't think straight under pressure.

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[woodbell67]

Eddie Lang died in 1933

[khobgood]

@woodbell67 Thanks! Yes I had remembered that later. :)

[cohnnotb4x]

Artie Shaw told me that Quinn was the best guitar

player he had ever seen.

Larry Cohn

[panamintjoe]

Les looks pretty darn good here, sharp as a tack too. Thanks.

[panamintjoe]

Thanks for the post. I read somewhere that at one time Snoozer claimed he never cut any records with Whiteman, and that Whiteman just sent him around to play at parties. Some of Snoozer's contemporaries thought he was just as good if not better than Eddie Lang. When times got tough in 1930 Whiteman had to cut a lot of his "more expensive" talent, including Venuti and Lang.