[78-L] Electric guitar before 1939

[David Pierce]

The Media History Digital Library has scanned a number of radio
magazines<http://mediahistoryproject.org/broadcasting/>,
and there is an article on electronic
instruments<http://archive.org/stream/radiotoday03unse#page/n813/mode/2up>in
the September 1937 issue of Radio Today (from the collections of the
Library of Congress). This includes a photo of Lew Green and Ferde Grofe
with the Epiphone electric guitar.

David Pierce
Media History Digital Library
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On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Cary Ginell <soundthink at live.com> wrote:

> I recently acquired Decca 332 by Eddie Bush & His Biltmore Trio ("Object
> of My Affection"/Talkin' to Myself") which features electric guitar, played
> Hawaiian style. It was recorded November 1, 1934, which is nearly three
> months before Bob Dunn's initial recordings with Milton Brown (1/28/35).
> Hawaiian recordings were the first to feature electric guitar. If I'm not
> mistaken, the earliest were by the Noelani Hawaiian Orchestra, recorded for
> Victor on 9/14/33, but a nagging voice in my head tells me someone did it
> even earlier than that.
>
> Cary Ginell
>
>
>
> On Dec 27, 2013, at 10:19 AM, Joe Scott <joenscott at mail.com> wrote:
>
> > Thirties periodicals tend to identify the electric guitar with radio and
> with dance bands a lot. A 1938 article called radio performer Andy Sannella
> "one of the best of the electric guitar performers." Sammy Kaye's recording
> "When Twilight Comes" from 1938 reportedly has an electric guitar solo by
> Lloyd Gillion. This all ties in with how radio listener T-Bone Walker could
> have had his first encounter with electric guitar on a Fred Waring show.
> > Len Fillis recorded "Mood Ruby" unaccompanied on an electric Spanish
> (i.e., "regular") guitar on 4/17/36.
> >
> > The publication Mills Hawaiian And Electric Guitar Method was
> copyrighted on 1/15/38.
> >
> > Joseph Scott
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