Talk:Bob Dunn (musician)

Beggs or Braggs?

The article currently has Dunn being born in Beggs, which is in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma. Other resources have Dunn being born in, or near, Braggs, which is in Muskogee County. The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma, for instance, has him being born "in Braggs" (though it also lists a slightly different date, February 8, 1908, as the date of birth). The Handbook of Texas Online has him being born "in Fort Gibson," which is in Muskogee County, a short distance from Braggs. I haven't been able to get my hands on the source we cite for Beggs being Dunn's place of birth, but I'm beginning to wonder if we have this right, of course. I'll continue to research this. In the meantime, maybe someone here can clear this up? GreenGourd (talk) 18:45, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

It's Braggs

I actually managed to find the cited source, Ginell's Milton Brown and the Founding of Western Swing, and it confirms that Dunn was born in Braggs, not Beggs. That's consistent with the other sources I've consulted (and mentioned above). It looks like a user in April 2012 edited out all the references to Braggs and inserted Beggs (including, wrongly, in the quote from Ginell). Because all the references I can find, including the cited Ginell, say that Dunn was born in Braggs, I've edited the piece to say that Dunn was born there. GreenGourd (talk) 20:47, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

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First musician to record an electrically amplified instrument?

"Bob Dunn is noted as the first musician to record an electrically amplified instrument... on January 27, 1935"? Well, the 1933-1934 recordings of Sol Hoʻopiʻi plainly make this assertion dubious. TuckerResearch (talk) 18:45, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

I see where the author get his statement, from *Ginell, Cary. Milton Brown and the Founding of Western Swing. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1994. ISBN 0-252-02041-3 In "Discography" it says that the regular steel player was not available, and Bob Dunn replaced him on the session on that date. Could Sol Hoopii's recordings be on acoustic lap steel, not electric?--Eagledj (talk) 01:04, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

Perhaps Sol Hoʻopiʻi was playing an acoustic. But what of this: Noi Lane's Hawaiian Orchestra, "Hawaiian Love," from 1933: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBvu5c2IJiM? Steve Sullivan (2017). Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 112. says of this song: "Dick Spottswood cites this performance as the first known recording of an electronically amplified guitar, or indeed of any electronically amplified instrument. Sam Koki is the lead guitarist (on the so-called 'frying pan' guitar), and it's a lovely waltz performance. The same session also included the band's fine foxt-trot Hawaiian Ripple, also with amplified guitar front and center. It would not be until 1935 that the electric guitar became a familiar presence in country music, through Bob Dunn with Milton' Brown's Musical Brownies, and Leon McAuliffe with Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys. These guitar wizards set the stage for Charlie Christian, T-Bone Walker, and the guitar heroes to follow." TuckerResearch (talk) 23:13, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

I fixed things. TuckerResearch (talk) 23:51, 4 August 2018 (UTC)