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Perry – best known for playing Chandler Bing on Friends – was found dead in his hot tub in Los Angeles in October 2023.

It would be like inquiring of the average adult, “Who’s Bing Crosby, Perry Como or Frank Sinatra?”

Xavier Cugat, “king of the rumba,” nevertheless hired him, and Bing Crosby advocated for him.

In 1948, Bing Crosby gave Paul his first mono Ampex recorder, to which Paul added a second playback head, which enabled him to record multiple tracks on the same reel of tape.

Dissatisfied with the quality of the day’s commercial recordings, Paul, who’d worked with pop stars including Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters, and was a guitar virtuoso and bandleader, endeavored to push the practice forward — to make recording a kind of erudite art form.