Name: House of Hits: The Story of Houston's Gold Star/SugarHill Recording Studios
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Foreword by Deniz Tek
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Case for Greatness
Chapter 1. The Raid
Chapter 2. Domestic Crude
Chapter 3. The Independent Quinn
Chapter 4. Gold Star Records
Chapter 5. Label's Demise, New Studio's Rise: Recording in the House
Chapter 6. Pappy Daily and Starday Records
Chapter 7. The Big Studio Room Expansion
Chapter 8. Daily's Dominance and D Records
Chapter 9. Little Labels: Blues, Country, and Sharks
Chapter 10. Into the '60s and Quinn's Last Sessions
Chapter 11. Duke-Peacock: The Gold Star Connection
Chapter 12. The HSP Corporation Experiment Begins
Chapter 13. A House of Rock, Despite the Muck
Chapter 14. The HSP Aftermath and a New Direction
Chapter 15. International Artists Record Company: The Psychedelic Business Plan
Chapter 16. Disillusioned Dissolution
Chapter 17. Meaux Moves In, SugarHill Ascends
Chapter 18. The Freddy Fender Phenomenon
Chapter 19. The Later '70s and Early '80s
Chapter 20. Meaux's Final Phase
Chapter 21. Modern Music (Ad)Ventures
Chapter 22. Emergence of a RAD Idea
Chapter 23. Millennial Destiny
Chapter 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

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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' Hopkins, George Jones, Willie Nelson, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Junior Parker, Clifton Chenier, Sir Douglas Quintet, 13th Floor Elevators, Freddy Fender, Kinky Friedman, Ray Benson, Guy Clark, Lucinda Williams, Beyoncé and Destiny's Child, and many, many more.

In House of Hits, Andy Bradley and Roger Wood chronicle the fascinating history of Gold Star/SugarHill, telling a story that effectively covers the postwar popular music industry. They describe how Houston's lack of zoning ordinances allowed founder Bill Quinn's house studio to grow into a large studio complex, just as SugarHill's willingness to transcend musical boundaries transformed it into of one of the most storied recording enterprises in America. The authors offer behind-the-scenes accounts of numerous hit recordings, spiced with anecdotes from studio insiders and musicians who recorded at SugarHill. Bradley and Wood also place significant emphasis on the role of technology in shaping the music and the evolution of the music business. They include in-depth biographies of regional stars and analysis of the various styles of music they represent, as well as a list of all of Gold Star/SugarHill's recordings that made the Billboard charts and extensive selected historical discographies of the studio's recordings.

ISBN: 9780292763180 (0292763182)

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