Title: George Barnes (musician)
Content:  There is some dispute over the first commercial recording of the electric guitar. Barnes played an electric guitar on two songs, "Sweetheart Land" and "It's a Low-Down Dirty Shame", sung by Big Bill Broonzy and produced by Lester Melrose in Chicago on March 1, 1938. Some historians, however, attribute the first recording with electric guitar to Eddie Durham in 1935. Durham's recording, "Hittin' The Bottle" with Jimmie Lunceford, was played on an acoustic guitar fitted with a pickup. Several recordings of an electric lap steel guitar precede both Durham and Barnes, including recordings by Milton Brown and his Musical Brownies featuring Bob Dunn on electric lap steel in January 1935 and Andy Iona in 1933.
Title: Steel guitar
Content:  In 1934, a steel guitarist named George Beauchamp invented the electric guitar pickup. He found that a vibrating metal string in a magnetic field generates a small current that can be amplified and sent to a loudspeaker; his steel guitar was the world's first electric guitar. According to music writer Michael Ross, the first electrified stringed instrument on a commercial recording was a steel guitar played by Bob Dunn on a Western swing tune in 1935. Dunn recorded with Milton Brown and his Musical Brownies.
Title: George Barnes (musician)
Content:  George Warren Barnes (July 17, 1921 – September 5, 1977) was an American swing jazz guitarist who played the first electric guitar in 1931. He, disputedly, made the first commercial recording of an electric guitar on March 1, 1938, in sessions with Big Bill Broonzy. Such was his downhome style of playing, he was once mistakenly described as a "great Negro blues guitar player from Chicago".
Title: Electric guitar design
Content:  George Beauchamp is occasionally credited with inventing the electric guitar by designing a lap steel guitar with a pickup, though a lap steel does not have functional frets or a standard guitar-type neck. The earliest "electrified" fretted guitars were hollow-bodied archtop acoustic guitars to which some form of electromagnetic transducer had been attached. The first commercial electrified guitar was the Electro-Spanish Ken Roberts model produced from 1931 to 1936 by Rickenbacker, with one Beauchamp-designed pickup and an early "Vib-rola" hand vibrato created by Doc Kauffman.
Title: Electric guitar
Content:  electric blues guitar music and rock guitar playing. Invented in 1932, the electric guitar was adopted by jazz guitar players, who wanted to play single-note guitar solos in large big band ensembles. Early proponents of the electric guitar on record include Les Paul, Lonnie Johnson, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, T-Bone Walker, and Charlie Christian. During the 1950s and 1960s, the electric guitar became the most important instrument in popular music. It has evolved into an instrument that is capable of a multitude of sounds and styles in genres ranging from pop and rock to country music, blues and jazz. It served as a major component in the development of electric blues, rock and roll, rock music, heavy metal music and many other 
Title: Music technology (electric)
Content:  1929 : Nikolay Obukhov commissioned Michel Billaudot and Pierre Duvalie to design the Sonorous Cross ; 1929 : Peter Lertes and Bruno Helberger developed the Hellertion ; 1930 : Robert Hitcock completes the Westinghouse Organ ; 1931 : George Beauchamp, the general manager of the National Guitar Corporation, develops the first electric guitar ; 1934 : Laurens Hammond created the first Hammond Organ ; 1935 : Yamaha releases Magna Organ, an early electrostatic reed organ ; 1935 : Paul Tutmarc invents the electric bass (but the instrument does not attract buyers until Leo Fender developed the Precision Bass in the 1950s 
Title: Electric guitar
Content:  and electrification. The first electric guitars used in jazz were hollow archtop acoustic guitar bodies with electromagnetic transducers. The first electrically amplified stringed instrument to be marketed commercially was a cast aluminium lap steel guitar nicknamed the "Frying Pan" designed in 1931 by George Beauchamp, the general manager of the National Guitar Corporation, with Paul Barth, who was vice president. George Beauchamp, along with Adolph Rickenbacker, invented the electromagnetic pickups. Coils that were wrapped around a magnet would create an electromagnetic field that converted the vibrations of the guitar strings into electrical signals, which could then be amplified. Commercial production began in late summer of 1932 
Title: Charlie Christian
Content:  then following it with his own ideas. By 1939 there had already been electric guitar soloists—Leonard Ware; George Barnes; Eddie Durham, who had recorded with Count Basie; Floyd Smith, who recorded "Floyd's Guitar Blues" with Andy Kirk in March 1939, using an amplified lap steel guitar; and the Texas Swing pioneer Eldon Shamblin, who was playing with Bob Wills. Christian paved the way for the modern electric guitar sound that was followed by other pioneers, including T-Bone Walker, Eddie Cochran, Cliff Gallup, Scotty Moore, Franny Beecher, B.B. King, Chuck Berry, Carlos Santana and Jimi Hendrix. For this reason Christian was inducted in 1990 into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 
Title: Timeline of United States inventions (1890–1945)
Content:  amplifier. The output is altered with guitar effects such as reverb or distortion. The earliest electric guitar, known as a "frying pan", was a hollow bodied acoustic instrument with tungsten steel pickups invented by George Beauchamp and Adolph Rickenbacker in 1931. The electric guitar was a key instrument in the development of musical styles that emerged since the late 1940s, such as Chicago blues, early rock and roll, rockabilly, and 1960s blues rock. Electric guitars are used in almost every popular music genre. U.S. patent #2,089,171 was filed by Beauchamp on June 2, 1934 and issued on August 10 1937. 
Title: Jazz guitarist
Content:  Although Charlie Christian had a brief career, his impact was big enough that some critics divide the history of jazz guitar into pre-Christian and post-Christian eras. Mary Osborne saw Christian perform when he visited her home state of North Dakota in 1938. The performance inspired her to buy an electric guitar. Before Christian, George Barnes was experimenting with amplification in 1931. He claimed to be the first electric guitarist and the first to record with an electric guitar, on March 1, 1938, in sessions with blues guitarist Big Bill Broonzy fifteen days before Eddie Durham recorded with the Kansas City Five. Oscar Moore, Irving Ashby, and John Collins were the successive members 

Question: who made the first to record with the electric guitar?
Answer: George Warren Barnes.