[78-L] Electric guitar before 1939 #2

[Malcolm Rockwell]

Damn, I was off by a year: Noi Lane (sic), "Dreams Of Aloha", was rec. 
Feb. 22, 1933!
But that still confirms Vi V-92 was the first. Still don't know the 
steel player, or any other band members besides Noelani Lopes, though. 
Thanks, Joe.
It was later that Danny Stewart played either a straight acoustic steel 
or electric steel for Andy Iona on Aug. 29, 1934, doing "Minnehaha" on 
Co 2962-D. I do not know of an earlier example of esg on an Iona 
recording. It is thought that it was Sol Hoopii playing a straight 
acoustic steel on an earlier Iona recording, but Stewart was the first 
electric steel side for Iona.
If I remember correctly (and obviously I don't sometimes) there was some 
question as to whether the guitar was a true electric steel guitar 
(lap-style) or an amplified acoustic guitar. There is a difference.
Mal

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On 12/27/2013 9:25 AM, Malcolm Rockwell wrote:
> The first electric guitar recording was "Dreams Of Aloha," Vi V-92, by
> Noi Lane Hawaiian Orch. (sic), rec. NYC 02/22/34.
>
> The steel player is unknown.
> I know of none earlier.
> As to Eddie Bush, et al, his first recording featuring electric steel
> guitar was actually recorded 9 months earlier than the example you give
> on Feb. 8, 1934. It was Victor 24602-B, "My Little Grass Shack in
> Kealakekua, Hawaii". The flip was recorded Feb. 13,1934. It was Victor
> 24602-A, "Song Of The Islands". Oddly enough the -A side has a lower
> matrix number than the -B side, even though recorded later. They were
> recorded in two different studios, thus the discrepancy.
> Malcolm
>
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> On 12/27/2013 8:37 AM, Cary Ginell 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.
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>> Cary Ginell
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>> 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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