Your summary is right, Roger. Donegan´s qualities and vitality does not depend on the use of electric guitars, and there lots of later recordings without electric guitars which I really love ( for example various songs of the Lonnie Donegan Folk Album/1965, Spanish Nights of CD "Muleskinner Blues" or, not to forget, the Skiffle Sessions Live in Belfast with fine guitar work of Paul Henry and Big Jim Sullivan. And there are also fine unplugged recordings on his latest CD "This Yere De Story" like for example "Rambling Man"...

I know the example you gave of Lonnie´s recordings in 1956. I guess it was the Royal Albert Hall concert of January 1957 when Denny Wright used first time the electric guitar ( --> Cumberland Gap ); these live-recorded tracks are issued on various CDs, for example in Bear Family´s 8-CD-Box(plus book) "More Than Pye In The Sky".
But during the Conway Hall concert of same month Denny played more in the 1956-sound when I should describe it. So it seems that the Albert Hall was a remarkable point of change. What do you think, Roger?

At the end, it´s not important to discuss too much about the sense of electric guitars in Skiffle, it´s ok with and without --- and when Lonnie was the vocalist, it doesn´t matter what happened behind him.

Johnny Duncan´s "Last Train To San Fernando" was one of my next favourites of my childhood. When I was eight years ( 1975 ) I discovered this recording on a Country compilation long-play record and played it again and again. Right, this is really the other important Skiffle evergreen of the early days. Most of the others are a bit "too brave".

Jimmy Currie has been one of my guitar favourites, too, and I really appreciate his songwriting, for example I like his "Nobody Loves Like An Irish Man", but he also did "Jack O´Diamonds" and, as co-writer, "I´ll Never Fall In Love Again".