Historic RCA Studio B

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• Introduction Home of a Thousand Hits: Historic RCA Studio B America's New Music Industry Nashville's Postwar Recording Scene RCA Strengthens Its Nashville Presence Elvis Presley and Country's Rocek & Roll Challenge From McGavock Street to Music Row Nashville Sound Classics, 1958-1959: Bill Porter Joins RCA's Nashville Team High Gear Nashville Cats Chet Atkins, Producer Is It Gonna Happen? Elvis Returns Music City, USA Studio B. and the Rise of Monument Records Roy Orbison: Monument's Operatic Balladeer The Everly Brothers: From Cadence to Warner Bros.  Expansion Hit Factory RCA Staff Producers Pop, Jazz, Gospel, and Bluegrass at Studio B Kings' Playground: Elvis in Studio B, 1961-1971 Changing of the Guard Outlaws and Beyond Into the Twenty-First Century Recommended Listening Sources Acknowledgements