RCA Studio B
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Nashville’s only historic studio tour. Stand where Dolly Parton, Elvis Presley, and Roy Orbison made music history. Operated by @CountryMusicHOF
1611 Roy Acuff Place (Music Sq
Joined July 2014
Recorded at RCA Studio B, Wilson Pickett's album "Miz Lena's Boy" (1973) didn't achieve massive commercial success, but it produced two chart hits —"Take a Closer Look at the Woman You’re With" and "Soft Soul Boogie Woogie"—and is considered by some a hidden gem in his catalog.
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Nashville native Buddy Harman was a first-call drummer who played on many recording sessions at RCA Studio B, including the one that produced Roy Orbison’s “Only the Lonely,” a No. 2 pop hit on the "Billboard" Hot 100 in 1960.
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In 1963, RCA released Jim Reeves’s only holiday album, “12 Songs of Christmas,” a mix of seasonal hymns and standards. In its original 1962 version, the album only had eleven songs and first came out in South Africa.
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In May of 1971, RCA Studio B was decorated for an early Christmas. @ElvisPresley recorded his second and final Christmas album, "Elvis Sings The Wonderful World of Christmas,” featuring the now-classic "Merry Christmas Baby."
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Country Music Hall of Fame member Hank Snow recorded his sixth No. 1 single, “I’ve Been Everywhere,” at RCA Studio B on June 27, 1962. Written by Australian singer-songwriter Geoff Mack, it reached the top of the country charts on November 10 that year, staying two weeks.
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Grandpa Jones was a fixture on “Hee Haw” and the Grand Ole Opry who knew how to land a witty punchline and play banjo. His biggest hit was an update of Jimmie Rodgers’s “T for Texas,” which was recorded at RCA Studio B.
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With his mellow baritone and polished stage presence, "Gentleman Jim" Reeves was the quintessential Nashville Sound singer. Reeves and producer Chet Atkins helped steer country music in a new direction with pop-oriented hits such as "He'll Have to Go," recorded at RCA Studio B.
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Country Music Hall of Fame member Roger Miller had his first Top Ten hit with “When Two Worlds Collide.” Written with his friend Bill Anderson on a road trip from Nashville to San Antonio, he recorded it at RCA Studio B in 1961 with producer Chet Atkins and engineer Bill Porter.
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RCA Victor executive Steve Sholes was instrumental in building RCA Studio B and making Nashville a music industry hub. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1968. Pictured: Sholes (foreground) with singer Libby Horne at RCA’s TRAFCO studio.
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Dottie West enjoyed one of the longest hitmaking careers of any woman of her generation. Her self-penned song “Here Comes My Baby,” recorded in RCA Studio B in 1964, earned her the first Grammy ever awarded for Best Country Vocal Performance, Female.
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Nashville’s A-Team, but he also released music as a solo performer. His fourth RCA single, “Last Date,” which showcased his slip-note playing style, was No. 2 on the pop chart for four weeks in 1960.
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Twang was central to Duane Eddy’s sound, whether he was playing rock & roll or country. In 1963, he cut an album at RCA Studio B that let his rumbling guitar do the talking on country classics, such as “Wildwood Flower.” Pictured: Eddy with Junior Brown.
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"For me, the great thing about Mr. Atkins is not the fact that he is capable of playing almost every type of music, but the conviction in the way he does it," said George Harrison in the liner notes of "Chet Atkins Picks on the Beatles," recorded at RCA Studio B.
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In 1968, Bobby Goldsboro recorded “Honey” at RCA Studio B. A massive crossover success, the Bobby Russell–penned song sold over a million copies in its first three weeks, spent five weeks at No. 1 on "Billboard’s" Hot 100, and three at No. 1 on the Hot Country Singles chart.
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In the mid-1970s, Gary Stewart helped stage a honky-tonk revival with raw, back-to-basics hits like “She’s Actin’ Single (I’m Drinkin’ Doubles).”
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Gillian Welch & David Rawlings recorded "Time (The Revelator)" at RCA Studio B. The studio’s historical significance added meaning to the album’s richly layered examinations of time, truth, myth, music, and even references to Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley.
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Trumpet player Al Hirt is rightfully associated with New Orleans, but his biggest hits were cut in Nashville. His 1963 instrumental smash “Java” was recorded at RCA Studio B with Chet Atkins producing and the A-Team session players.
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Elvis Presley won his first Grammy, for Best Sacred Performance, for “How Great Thou Art," the title track to his second gospel album, in 1967. It was certified gold by the RIAA in February 1968 and has since been certified triple platinum.
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Eddy Arnold scored a No. 5 country hit with “Tennessee Stud,” a recording that took more than seventy takes to capture. Since then, it has become a standard covered by Johnny Cash, Doc Watson, and others.
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