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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.
Built by Nashville businessman Dan Maddox in 1957 and leased to RCA Records, RCA Studio B was first known as “RCA Victor Studio.” It became a cradle of the Nashville Sound in the late 1950s and early 1960s with hits including Don Gibson’s “Oh Lonesome Me,” the Browns’ “The Three Bells,” and Jim Reeves’s “He’ll Have to Go.”
RCA Studio B manager Luke Gilfeather inside the historic building. Nashville is home to many legendary recording studios. But none are as enduring or iconic as RCA Studio B at the corner of 17 th Avenue South and Roy Acuff Place.
Known as the “House that Elvis” built, Nashville’s historic RCA Studio B is a surprisingly unassuming structure on Music Row. But in addition to Elvis Presley’s later sessions, other great artists who recorded hits at Studio B were Chet Atkins, Eddy Arnold, Dolly Parton , Jim Reeves, the Everly Brothers, Al Hirt and Roy Orbison.
15 gru 2017 · RCA Studio B. Photo: Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum. For 20 years (1957 to 1977), Studio B was the birthplace of hundreds of hit records that impacted both the Country and Pop charts. The list of stars who stepped up to the microphone in that studio includes Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, Dolly Parton and so many more.
Studio B was erected in 1957 by local entrepreneur Dan Maddox for $37,515 and leased to RCA Records, which used RCA sound engineers from Nashville and New York to set up the sound equipment, producing a room of exceptional sound quality.
5 kwi 2015 · For many years, Country Music Hall of Fame inductee Chet Atkins managed RCA’s Nashville operation and produced hundreds of hits in Studio B. Built by Dan Maddox in 1957, RCA Studio B first became known as one of the cradles of the “Nashville Sound” in the 1960s.
