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Historic RCA Studio B
Preserved recording studio where a secondhand piano hosted country music's landmark sessions.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Historic RCA Studio B in Nashville follows a secondhand Steinway piano, shipped south from a New York television studio, that became the instrument Elvis Presley refused to record without. It traces the room's founding by RCA producer Chet Atkins after Presley's early hits proved Nashville could support a full studio, then settles into one all-night session in April nineteen sixty, when Elvis sat at that same piano with pianist Floyd Cramer and asked for the studio lights to be switched off. The piano still sits in its corner today, keys worn by six decades of hands.
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