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Topic: History of recording in Nashville - Help |
Dave Boothroyd
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Staffordshire Moorlands
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Posted 18 Apr 2002 4:04 am |
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I'm preparing a series of lectures for my Music Technology students on centres of music production through time and across the globe.
I've done Avant Garde and Musique concrete in Paris in the early part of the 20th century, and the BBC radiophonic workshop in the 1950s & 60's. I shall do the story of Abbey Road next week. I shall also cover New York- the Brill Building, Phil Spector etc,and Detroit & Motown, but so much of the innovations in musical instrument design and recording techniques occurred in Country that I would like to include Nashville in my centres of production.
My search engines are coming up with dozens of Fan sites, but I can't find anything about the studios, their equipment or who recorded in them.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
- some of the people on this forum were there, or knew the people who were there when the classics were recorded.
Has anyone put this sort of information together already?
Thanks in advance
Dave |
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Dave Van Allen
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Souderton, PA , US , Earth
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Tim Rowley
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Pinconning, MI, USA
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Posted 18 Apr 2002 7:38 pm
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Buddy Killen's autobiography "By the Seat of My Pants" has lots of good information on this subject, so does the Kitty Wells/Johnny Wright/Jack Anglin biography "The Honky Tonk Angels" by Walt Trott, and so do some of the other bio books.
Tim R. |
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Dave Boothroyd
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Staffordshire Moorlands
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Posted 19 Apr 2002 12:11 am
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Thanks very much- I'd checked the HOF site but never found the links to the history.
Now I know what trails to chase.
If anyone wants anything on Abbey Road, you know who to call!
Cheers
Dave |
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Donny Hinson
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Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 19 Apr 2002 5:56 pm
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The actual "recording industry" in Nashville probably started with Decca. They recorded songs in various places in Nashville, and in the spring of 1945, they recorded the first hit songs to come out of Nashville on a major label. Red Foley is generally credited with the first big Nashville recording, which was produced by Paul Cohen, who had worked for Decca for many years.
Steve Sholes recorded the first stuff for RCA in Nashville at Brown Bros. (a small private studio) in 1946. I think it was about 3 years later that RCA built their own studio in Nashville. Shortly thereafter, the Owen Bradley (Columbia) studio opened, followed by Mercury Record studio in 1952, run by Don Pierce. Don went on to found Starday, the famous "Country Only" label, in 1955 or '56.
Sun Records, famous for discovering such stars as Elvis, Johnny Cash, and Jerry Lee Lewis got it's start in 1949, and grew to success with these stars, and many others, by the mid '50s. |
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Larry Miller
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Dothan AL,USA
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Glenn Suchan
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Austin, Texas
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Posted 22 Apr 2002 11:18 am
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Dave,
This may only be of tangental interest but, it is interesting reading: Try a book titled
"ROUGH MIX: An unapologetic look at the music business and how it got that way" pub. Simon & Schuster, 1997. ISBN 0684807645
It was written by Jimmy Bowen and Jim Jerome and deals with Jimmy Bowen's career as a record producer for many big names from Frank Sinatra to Garth Brooks. Most of the book deals with Jimmy's influence on the Nashville recording business. It sounds like pretty dry reading. It isn't!
Keep on pickin'!
Glenn |
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Jason Odd
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Stawell, Victoria, Australia
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Posted 22 Apr 2002 5:04 pm
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| email me Dave, I've got some stuff, but I don't want to post if online, copyright and all that. |
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