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Gold Star Studios was an independent recording studio located in Hollywood, California. In its entire history, Gold Star was one of the most successful commercial recording studios in the world.
The studio was well known for its custom-designed recording equipment, which was designed and built by David S. Gold, one of its founders, and for its echo chambers, also built by Gold. Gold Star was the studio used for hundreds of recordings by scores of leading pop and rock artists.
In 1946, Quinn founded Gold Star Records, initially recording local country (or "hillbilly") artists before expanding to record local Cajun and blues artists. In 1947, Gold Star had its first hit record, "Jole Blon" by Harry Choates, a swing and dance tune that and became the first and only Cajun record to reach the Billboard Top Five.
But discerning eyes and ears knew that, behind this unprepossessing veneer, there lurked an authentic powerhouse of star-making capacity. This was Gold Star Recording Studios, ground zero for transforming the fervid imaginings of pop music’s visionaries into three intoxicating minutes of backbeat and hum.
The Wall of Sound (also called the Spector Sound) [1] [2] is a music production formula developed by American record producer Phil Spector at Gold Star Studios, in the 1960s, with assistance from engineer Larry Levine and the conglomerate of session musicians later known as "the Wrecking Crew".
Gold Star Recording Studios was a trailblazing studio that changed the course of modern music through technology and hosting pioneering producers. The studio showcased David S. Gold’s custom-designed and hand-crafted technology and Stan Ross’ relentless creativity and groundbreaking methods to raise the use of the recording studio to an art ...
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Sep 25, 2021 · Gold Star was an atmosphere and schmuck-free sound laboratory that gave us the most-programmed record in history, Spector’s “You’ve Lost that Lovin’ Feelin'” by The Righteous Brothers, (arranged by Gene Page) and over 100 Billboard Top 40 hit records.
