We were sitting here going 'it's really hot in here' - so lucky!!!" For what it's worth, the story's mention of the Beatles recording there is raising eyebrows among some of the music industry veterans on Facebook.Īlso on Facebook, tenant Kathy Stevens posts: "Fire the studio.
The complex of buildings was mostly saved, according to ABC 7. The Los Angeles Fire Department says the fire its crews responded to was knocked down after 7 p.m.
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"You Send Me", " Mac The Knife", " Loveletters In The Sand", "Peter Gunn" and "Purple People Eater" are some of the memories captured within its walls. The building itself is a virtual time capsule. "Jailhouse Rock", "All Shook Up", "Loving You" and "Teddy Bear" are just a few of the block-busters that Elvis recorded at 7000 Santa Monica Blvd., now the headquarters of Studio 56. Founded in 1933, Radio Recorders had already achieved prominence in the field of broadcast radio, when it also became the home of some of popular music's greatest hits. That's what Paul Schwartz discovered when he opened Studio 56 on the site originally occupied by Radio Recorders, one of the oldest recording facilities in Los Angeles. In addition to popular music the facilities there were also extensively used to record jingles, commercials and shows for broadcast radio.Īside from being musical legends, what do Elvis Presley, Bobby Darin, Louis Armstrong, Sam Cooke, Pat Boone, Bing Crosby and Igor Stravinsky have in common? To find the answer you must travel to the corner of Santa Monica Boulevard and Orange Drive in Hollywood and visit the studio in which these epochal figures recorded some of their most memorable work.
Capitol Records did all their early recordings there and then stole away some of their engineering staff when they built their own studios. Mostly all of the major labels used Radio Recorders' studios because most of them did not have facilities on the West Coast initially. and were on the road to becoming one of the largest independent recording studios in Hollywood. By 1949 they had taken over the facilities at 7000 Santa Monica Blvd. Radio Recorders itself was founded around 1933 and the 1937 Broadcasting Yearbook lists it as being located at 932 N. One of the first stars on its label to record there was Jimmie Rodgers in July of 1930 accompanied by Louis Armstrong on trumpet. Though now officially RCA Victor, the company was still being referred to simply as "Victor" and record labels did not carry "RCA Victor" until much later, sometime in the late 1930s or early '40s. Variety Magazine advertised at the time that at a cost of $250,000 the complex went from Orange Drive to Sycamore Avenue between Santa Monica Blvd. According to a history on the web by Scotty Moore, the studio was built in 1929 by the Victor Talking Machine Company. It has a different name.but it's the old Radio Recorders, place where I started my recording career in 1957 with Sam Cooke, and place where Nat King Cole, BB's and other giant recordings were was the cat's meow in the 1950s and beyond."Įlvis Presley also recorded there in '57.
Carol Kaye, the session guitarist I wrote about yesterday, posted tonight on Facebook: "Sure sorry to see this historical place on-fire. It's the former location of Radio Recorders, a legendary sound studio. Tonight's fire at the corner of Santa Monica Boulevard and Orange Avenue wasn't just in another storefront.
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