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Columbia Records was known to have some of the best sound recording studios, including one of their earliest, “Studio A” located on 7th Ave. Among other classics recorded at Columbia: Bob Dylan recorded “ Like A Rolling Stone ” here in 1965. Simon & Garfunkel recorded “ The Sounds of Silence ” & “ Bridge Over Troubled Water “.
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Apr 17, 2010 · Dylan recorded New Morning here, on 16 tracks. Studio C: CBS 30th Street Studio, a.k.a Columbia 30th Street Studio, a.k.a. The Church. 207 E 30th Street, New York City, NY. 55 x 97, height 50, accommodates 100. An Armenian-Greek Orthodox church, that was transformed into a recording studio in 1949.
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The roots of the recording studio go back to 19th-century inventors such as Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham, who laid the groundwork for the phonograph industry. By the time of the First World War, recording studios were appearing in major cities throughout the world, including the first OKeh Records studio, in New York, which was set up by Otto...
On January 3, 1950, Sam Phillips, a young talent scout, DJ, and radio engineer from Alabama, opened the Memphis Recording Service on Union Avenue, in Tennessee, in a converted car garage. Phillips opened his doors to amateur singers, recorded them, and then tried to sell the tapes to major record labels. He was soon attracting talents such as Howli...
The year Presley left Sun also saw a significant advance in studio design, when Capitol Records completed the Capitol Tower, a 13-story building that is one of the most iconic buildings in Los Angeles. Designed by Louis Naidorf, the tower resembles a stack of records and the 90-foot spire blinked “Hollywood” in Morse code at night. Inside the build...
In 1959, when Capitol was recording two more Sinatra albums, a cathedral of jazz opened across on the eastern seaboard with Rudy Van Gelder’s studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. This beautiful acoustic setting, with a 40-foot-high cedar ceiling, held up by arches of laminated Douglas fir, was where artists such as Horace Silver, Art Blakey, Joe...
In simple terms, the history of recording studios can be roughly divided into two time periods: before and after the 60s. During the remarkably creative period from 1965 to 1967, the studio changed from being simply a place of work for musicians, engineers, and producers, to becoming an artistic hub. The role of the producer was transformed during ...
The UK has been home to dozens of superb recording studios, including Sarm West in Notting Hill (Led Zeppelin, Bob Marley, Band Aid); Britannia Row in Islington (Pink Floyd, Squeeze, Joy Division) and Olympic Studios in Barnes (The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix). However, none can match the historical significance of Abbey Road Studios in St John’s ...
Berry Gordy could never be said to have lacked confidence. In 1959, he put up a sign that read “Hitsville USA” on his house when he turned a former photographer’s office and garage into a studio. Gordy’s record label, Motown, was a stunning success and, within seven years, the studio occupied seven additional neighboring houses in West Grand Boulev...
Like Sun in Memphis and Motown in Detroit, Chess Records was run out of small premises. Chess started out as small recording studios attached to offices and facilities for distribution. Chess had several different locations in Chicago, but the most important was 2120 South Michigan Avenue, which was immortalized in a song by The Rolling Stones (it ...
Though many of the most famous recording studios are in the US and UK, there have been important ones around the world – from Canada’s Studio 2 to Studio 301 in Australia. Few studios, however, can match the status of Germany’s Hansa Tonstudio, which can rightfully claim to be a site of historical music importance. When Britain’s athletes walked ou...
Brian Eno, who worked with Bowie at Hansa, once said that “if you had a sign above every studio door saying ‘This Studio Is A Musical Instrument’, it would make such a different approach to recording.” That ethos was as true of Hansa as it was of Muscle Shoals Sound Studioin Sheffield, Alabama, which was originally started by the four members of th...
Seventy four years after Edison set up – and Fred Gaisberg worked for – the company that became Columbia Records a young American artist was working at one of the company’s recording studios; Columbia Studio A on 799 Seventh Avenue near 52nd Street in New York City. He was making a record that would become one of the landmark recordings.
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A US Decca label was started five years later. By the 30's and 40's Decca had become a world-class label producing a diverse range of music genres records. With the immense popularity of cowboy movies in early 1930's Decca began recording several "western swing" artists. This opened the door for the broader country and western recordings.
On February 25, 1925, Columbia began recording with the electric recording process licensed from Western Electric. “Viva-tonal” records set a benchmark in tone and clarity unequaled on commercial discs during the 78-rpm era. The first electrical recordings were made by Art Gillham, the “Whispering Pianist”.
Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony. It was founded on January 22, 1889, evolving from the American Graphophone Company, the successor to the Volta Graphophone Company. Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in the recorded sound business, and the ...
