[Vintage-Audio] Al Hirt At Studio B

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Hi All,

Al Hirt went to the RCA Nashville Studio B in what, 1963 or 1964 to record 
the first of four albums he recorded there. I need your assistance to help 
me find which year goes with what album. Here are the album names in the 
order I remember them:

Honey In The Horn
Cotton Candy (He also released one with this name on CD, but it is NOT the 
same album!)
Sugar Lips
That Honey Horn Sound

Unrelated: Can any of you wizards of vinyl grooves tell me the recording 
studio name and year that "The Folkswinging Harpsacord" was recorded? I can 
hear a collective "Huh? The what?"

I do know that Glen Campbell plays the twelve string guitar on the album and 
that it features all common and popular Folk songs. I first heard one of the 
instrumental songs on a five tube AM radio in my parent's garage in 1966 
while working on an engine I was rebuilding. I called the station, WTRX 
1330, 5KW, and asked the DJ who the group was. He did not know, but told me 
the name of the album. Do any of you know anything about this most unusual, 
but enjoyable, recording?

I am still hating myself for giving away my mono 1964 Hurst Nationals drag 
racing album! Anybody have one they want to sell or trade? I can still smell 
the nitromethane and methanol as Big Daddy Don Gartlits and his Swamp Rat IV 
hit the 200 MPH in the quarter mile. I had my first stereo, an EICO amp 
built from a kit with about 15 watts RMS per channel, a Giarrard AT-50 
record changer and a pair of 8 inch James B. Lansing full range speakers in 
bass reflex cabinets my late father built from plans that came with the 
speakers. I paid $36 apiece for the speakers in December of 1964. They had a 
five pound permanent magnet on the back! Fantastic sound!

When one of those AA rails or a Funny Car fired up, the room shook, the 
curtains fell off the curtain rods and my mother dashed into my 
bedroom/stereo room to see what I had blown up! I miss that scent of fuel 
burning and my ears ringing from those huge slicks devouring the ashphalt! 
Sigh.





Duane Fischer, W8DBF/WPE8CXO
dfischer at usol.com
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