Talk:Heartbreak Hotel
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Sam Phillips wasn't the producer of Heartbreak Hotel - the song was not recorded at Sun Studios in Memphis. It was recorded, post RCA-signing, in Nashville, on Jan 10 1956, with Steve Sholes (the man who signed him to RCA) nominally producing, with Chet Atkins actually producing. This is part of the reason it sounds so unique - the RCA guys didn't know about the tape-echo Sam Phillips had been using in recording Elvis. In an attempt to capture that Sun Studio echo, they used a mass of reverb, and a hallway-as-a-echo-chamber. From Scotty Moore's web site (Elvis' guitar player, who's got to count as a primary source):
http://www.scottymoore.net/studio_mcgavock.html
Pete 66.79.240.203 00:23, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
