House of Hits : : The Story of Houston's Gold Star/SugarHill Recording Studios /

House of Hits : : The Story of Houston's Gold Star/SugarHill Recording Studios / / Roger Wood, Andy Bradley.

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Founded in a working-class neighborhood in southeast Houston in 1941, Gold Star/SugarHill Recording Studios is a major independent studio that has produced a multitude of influential hit records in an astonishingly diverse range of genres. Its roster of recorded musicians includes Lightnin' Hop...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Bradley, Andy,
Wood, Roger,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2010
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Brad and Michele Moore Roots Music Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The case for greatness
  • 1. The Raid
  • 2. Domestic Crude
  • 3. The Independent Quinn
  • 4. Gold Star Records
  • 5. Label’s Demise, New Studio’s Rise: Recording in the House
  • 6. Pappy Daily and Starday Records
  • 7. The Big Studio Room Expansion
  • 8. Daily’s Dominance and D Records
  • 9. Little Labels: Blues, Country, and Sharks
  • 10. Into the ’60s and Quinn’s Last Sessions
  • 11. Duke-Peacock: The Gold Star Connection
  • 12. The HSP Corporation Experiment Begins
  • 13. A House of Rock, Despite the Muck
  • 14. The HSP Aftermath and a New Direction
  • 15. International Artists Record Company: The Psychedelic Business Plan
  • 16. Disillusioned Dissolution
  • 17. Meaux Moves In, SugarHill Ascends
  • 18. The Freddy Fender Phenomenon
  • 19. The Later ’70s and Early ’80s
  • 20. Meaux’s Final Phase
  • 21. Modern Music (Ad)Ventures
  • 22. Emergence of a RAD Idea
  • 23. Millennial Destiny
  • 24. Still Tracking in the Twenty-first Century
  • Appendix A Catalogue of Interviews
  • Appendix B Chart Records from the House of Hits
  • Appendix C Selected Discographies: A Partial History
  • Appendix D Chronology of Gold Star/ SugarHill Engineers
  • Bibliography
  • Index: Page numbers in italics refer to photographs

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