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Thread #134435 Message #3057786
Posted By: GUEST,Alan Whittle
20-Dec-10 - 09:54 AM
Thread Name: Emergence of the guitar
Subject: RE: Emergence of the guitar
English performers of comic songs in the 1930's used the guitar long before the skiffle boom notably Max Wall and Max Miller.
I suppose they must have got the idea from somewhere.
1930's dance Band crooner Al Bowlly was also a strummer.
I seem to remember Christopher Isherwood talking of guitars being played to accompany folksongs in pre-war Germany. I think the book was Down there on a Visit.