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RCA Studio B was a music recording studio in Nashville, Tennessee established in 1957 by Steve Sholes and Chet Atkins for RCA Victor.Originally known simply as the RCA Victor Studio, in 1965 the studio was designated as Studio B after RCA Victor built the newer, larger Studio A in an adjacent building.
The Nashville sound was pioneered by staff at RCA Victor, Columbia Records and Decca Records in Nashville, Tennessee.RCA Victor manager, producer and musician Chet Atkins, and producers Steve Sholes, Owen Bradley and Bob Ferguson, and recording engineer Bill Porter invented the form by replacing elements of the popular honky tonk style (fiddles, steel guitar, nasal lead vocals) with "smooth ...
Officially opening on March 29, 1965, the new addition to RCA Victor's Nashville Sound Studios, which was newer and larger than RCA's adjacent studio built 9 years prior, was appropriately designated as Studio A, while the original studio became Studio B. [3] Studio A was one of three similarly-designed large studios built by RCA in New York ...
Atkins listening as Bill Porter adjusts a mix in RCA's Nashville studio. At the end of March 1959, Porter took over as chief engineer at what was at the time RCA Victor's only Nashville studio, in the space that would become known as Studio B after the opening of a second studio in 1965. (At the time, RCA's sole Nashville studio had no letter ...
In the two decades the studio was in operation, RCA Victor Studio B produced 60 percent of the Billboard magazine's Country chart hits, [72] and was an essential factor to the development of the musical production style and sound engineering technique known as the Nashville Sound. RCA operated the studio until January 1977, when the Nashville ...
The album was recorded in February 1965 at the RCA Victor Studio, located in Nashville, Tennessee. The sessions were produced by Chet Atkins, who had been Locklin's longtime RCA producer. The session work featured The Nashville A-Team of musicians, including Floyd Cramer on piano and Grady Martin on guitar. [3] The record consisted of twelve ...
RCA's "Nashville Sound" Studio, Nashville, TN: ... Label: RCA Victor LPM-4017 (monaural), LSP-4017 (Stereo) Producer: Chet Atkins, Bob Ferguson: Chet Atkins chronology;
In 1957 he left Decatur and relocated to the Nashville, Tennessee suburb of Hendersonville and was signed to RCA Victor by Chet Atkins in 1958. While Randolph's initial recordings for the label weren't commercial successes, they recognized his potential as a session musician, and Randolph became part of the Nashville A-Team. [3]