What is the first song played on the electric guitar?

Answer 1

George Beauchamp designed the Electric Guitar when working at rickenbacker and he was a surf music fan so it wouldn't shock me if that was the first songs played. There's no real way to tell as he's been dead since 1941 and I guess back then it wasn't as groundbreaking as say when the telephone was invented and they wrote down or recorded the first call.

Where as say 50 years later from the invention of the guitar in 1931 who didn't have one. Van Halen fans to Black Sabbath and AC/DC put out this little record called back in black which is the # 2 most successful album in history.

Answer 2

From Wikipedia: The earliest documented performance with an electrically amplified guitar was in 1932, by guitarist and bandleader Gage Brewer. The Wichita, Kansas-based musician had obtained two Guitars, an Electric Hawaiian A-25 (Fry-pan, lap-steel) and a standard Electric Spanish from his friend George Beauchamp of Los Angeles, California. Brewer publicized his new instruments in an article in the Wichita Beacon, October 2, 1932 and through performances that month. The first recordings using the electric guitar were made by Hawaiian Style players such as Andy Iona as early as 1933. Bob Dunn of Milton Brown's Musical Brownies introduced the electric Hawaiian guitar to Western Swing with his January 1935 Decca recordings, departing almost entirely from Hawaiian musical influence and heading towards Jazz and Blues. Alvino Rey was an artist who took this instrument to a wide audience in a large orchestral setting and later developed the pedal steel guitar for Gibson. An early proponent of the electric Spanish guitar was jazz guitarist George Barnes who used the instrument in two songs recorded in Chicago on March 1, 1938, Sweetheart Land and It's a Low-Down Dirty Shame. Some historians incorrectly attribute the first recording to Eddie Durham, but his recording with the Kansas City Five was not until 15 days later.[4] Durham introduced the instrument to a young Charlie Christian, who made the instrument famous in his brief life and is generally known as the first electric guitarist and a major influence on jazz Guitarists for decades thereafter.

Answer 3

a lot i would say about 80-90%of bands use them

Answer 4

mid to late 50s , many people look far back thinking of Buddy Holly and Elvis Presley for being the originators of rock , but it's very subjective.