Historic RCA Studio B
- Author: Cooper, Peter
- Author: Edenton, Ray
- Author: Foster, Fred
- Author: Parton
- Author: Porter, Bill
- Author: Rumble, John
- Editor: Orr, Jay
Historic RCA Studio B
- Author: Cooper, Peter
- Author: Edenton, Ray
- Author: Foster, Fred
- Author: Parton
- Author: Porter, Bill
- Author: Rumble, John
- Editor: Orr, Jay
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About
Opened in 1957, RCA’s historic Nashville recording studio, known as Studio B, is a musical landmark like few others. Its reputation was built by some of the most important producers and artists in country and pop music.
During its heyday, from 1957 to 1977, approximately 18,000 sessions were recorded within the studio’s walls, including more than 200 songs by Elvis Presley. The studio’s opening marked a milestone in Nashville’s development as a music center, and those many hits spread Nashville’s reputation as Music City worldwide.
Generously illustrated with more than 200 rare photos from the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s archives, this book traces the full story of RCA Studio B-from its beginnings to its continued use today as both working studio and tourist attraction.
Contents
- Introduction
- Home of a Thousand Hits: Historic RCA Studio B
- America's New Music Industry
- Nashville's Postwar Recording Scene
- RCA Strengthens Its Nashville Presence
- Elvis Presley and Country's Rocek & Roll Challenge
- From McGavock Street to Music Row
- Nashville Sound Classics, 1958-1959: Bill Porter Joins RCA's Nashville Team
- High Gear
- Nashville Cats
- Chet Atkins, Producer
- Is It Gonna Happen? Elvis Returns
- Music City, USA
- Studio B. and the Rise of Monument Records
- Roy Orbison: Monument's Operatic Balladeer
- The Everly Brothers: From Cadence to Warner Bros.
- Expansion
- Hit Factory
- RCA Staff Producers
- Pop, Jazz, Gospel, and Bluegrass at Studio B
- Kings' Playground: Elvis in Studio B, 1961-1971
- Changing of the Guard
- Outlaws and Beyond
- Into the Twenty-First Century
- Recommended Listening
- Sources
- Acknowledgements
