Research Catalog

Title

If these halls could talk : [a historical tour through San Francisco recording studios] / by Heather Johnson.

Author

Johnson, Heather.

Publication

Boston, MA : Thomson Course Technology, c2006.

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Details

Description

xiii, 350 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Alternative Title

Historical tour through San Francisco recording studios

Subject

Sound recording industry > California > San Francisco > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 318-320) and index.

Contents

The fifties through the mid-sixties : the pioneers. The original Coast Recorders ; Commercial Recorders ; Columbus Recorders ; Golden State Recorders ; Early recording around the Bay -- The late sixties : the San Francisco sound and studio explosion. A new San Francisco Coast ; Pacific High Recording ; Wally Heider Recording ; Pacific Recording ; Mercury, Columbia, and the launch of The Automatt -- The seventies : it's party time. The Record Plant : magical seeds ; Concord Records : past and future ; Different Fur ; Wally Heider Recording hits its stride ; The Automatt : the next cycle ; The Record Plant : new roots ; Recording in and out of the city -- The eighties : excess goes high tech. From Heider to Hyde Street ; A public Fantasy ; Eighties outposts ; San Francisco hills and valleys -- The nineties : from digital boom to dotcom bust. Coast-to-Coast-to...Toast? ; The Plant : 25 years and counting ; Two dotcom storm survivors -- The new millennium : picking up the pieces. The old guard ; New blood.

Call Number

*LE 06-5713

ISBN

1598631411

LCCN

2006923262

OCLC

70342041

Author

Johnson, Heather.

Title

If these halls could talk : [a historical tour through San Francisco recording studios] / by Heather Johnson.

Imprint

Boston, MA : Thomson Course Technology, c2006.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 318-320) and index.

Research Call Number

*LE 06-5713