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Harry Smith Recording
Harry Smith Recording was the first independent recording studio on the east coast of the United States, founded in the 1930s by Harry Smith.The studio was located at 2 West 46th Street in New York City, and was taken over in 1944 by Fred Hall (musician), Fred Hall and Chuck Phillips. The studio ran a recording service for radio personalities, radio stations, and radio performers who wanted to record their live radio performances. This service at this time was mechanically fixed (sound cut into a wax type of record) onto a '78 styled disk record. Harry Smith Harry Smith was a former recording engineer for Brunswick Records. One of the records he engineered at Brunswick was Benny Goodman's "Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing), Sing, Sing, Sing." Harry Smith was born Harry Schmitt but changed his name from "Schmitt" to "Smith" because of the anti-German sentiment of the era. Smith's nephew (and godson) was Al Schmitt, who he let help on sessions at the studio from the age of 8. Schmit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Hall (musician)
Fred Hall (actual name Fred Arthur Ahl, 1898–1954) was an American pianist, bandleader and composer. Hall was born in New York City and began his musical career working as a song-plugger for various music publishers. As a bandleader Hall and his men recorded prolifically for many labels (see below) from 1925 onwards. Many recordings featured vocalist Arthur Fields with whom Hall enjoyed a lengthy partnership, co-writing scores of songs, the better known ones including ''Eleven More Months And Ten More Days'' and ''I Got A Code In My Dose''. Hall and Fields also appeared together on the NBC radio show ''The Sunday Driver''. Notable musicians in Hall's band included trumpeters Mike Mosiello and Leo McConville. Apart from playing piano, conducting and composing Hall sometimes performed scat singing on his records. A selection of Hall's recorded work has been reissued on CD by The Old Masters label. Hall made his last recordings in 1932, after which little is known of him. It is rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |