The History of Guitar in America: Influences Going and Coming…
Episode 32
Episode date - September 27, 2024
We are near the end of our series on the History of Guitar in America, winding up at the year 1962.
Now we have reached a point where we see outside influences from non-American sources providing a strong influence on the future of guitar’s development in America, as well as the rest of the world.
Thus, this show covers three distinct influences from outside the United States, along with examples of American contemporaries who were also leaving their mark.
Featured tracks include:
Apache – The Shadows
Kon-Tiki – The Shadows
Walk Don’t Run – The Ventures
Perfidia – The Ventures
Diamond Head – The Ventures
Hawaii Five-O – The Ventures
Angi – Davey Graham
She Moved Through the Fair – Davey Graham
Jack and Jill Shuffle – Theophilus Beckford w/ Ernest Ranglin
My Boy Lollipop – Mille Small w/ Ernest Ranglin
Soul De Ern – Ernest Ranglin
Rivers of Babylon – The Melodians w/ Ernest Ranglin