Bill Holford
Bill Holford | |
|---|---|
 Bill Holford at ACA Studios, early 1960s | |
| Background information | |
| Born | 12 June 1919 Bartlesville, Oklahoma |
| Died | 22 March 1999 Houston, Texas |
| Genres | Cajun, country, hillbilly, rockabilly, R&B |
| Occupation | Record producer |
| Years active | 1948-1982 |
Bill Holford (born William Dwight Holford, Sr.; 12 June 1919 Bartlesville, Oklahoma – 22 March 1999 Houston) was, for 50 years, an American recording engineer and record producer. For 44 of those years, from 1948 to 1982, he was the affiliated with ACA Studios (Audio Company of America) in Houston as an owner, partner, and audio engineer.[1][2][3]
ACA Studios
ACA was one of the earliest multi-track analog recording studios in the country.
Addresses
- 1017 Westheimer
- Houston
8208 Westpark Dr. Houston
ACA recording artists
- Juke Boy Bonner
- Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
- Jewel "Teasin'" Brown
- Arnett Cobb
- Johnny Copeland
- Peppermint Harris
- Lightnin' Hopkins
- Ivory Joe Hunter
- B.B. King
- Willie Love
- Webb Pierce
- Really Red
- Little Richard
- Buster Pickens
- Jimmy Swan
- Mitchell Torok
- Ernest Tubb and His Texas Troubadours
- Tag Williams
- Sonny Boy Williamson (aka Alex Miller)
- Johnny Winter
- Justin Wilson
Labels that recorded at ACA
- Starday Records[4]
- Mercury Records
- Peacock Records
- Bellaire Records
- D Records
- Sarg Records
- Macy's Recordings
Filmography
- Killing Fields (1984)
ACA audio engineers and staff
- Hank Lam: 1968-1972; engineer
- George Holsomback; born 1947, engineer from 1973 - 1974, chief engineer 1974-1978.
- Andy Bradley (born Andrew M. Bradley; 1951), audio engineer
- Sonny Ray Stolz (born Rae Roy Stolz; 1946), audio engineer and editor, among other things, helped Holford move from ACA's temporary location at Savoy Drive in Houston into the acquired defunct studios of Jimmy Duncan's Soundville at 8208 Westpark, Houston. Soundville Studios was a division of Jimmy Duncan Productions, Inc. Stolz worked for ACA from the summer of 1972 until early 1973.[5]
References
- ^ Obituary: Holford, William Dwight "Bill"; 79, Houston Chronicle, March 24, 1999; reprinted in AAFA Action (genealogical journal), Alford American Family Association (Fall 1999), Vol 12, Issue 2, pg. 45 ISSN 1082-3212
- ^ House of Hits: The Story of Houston's Gold Star/SugarHill Recording Studios, Andy Bradley and Charles Roger Wood, University of Texas Press (2010) OCLC 610030219
- ^ Recording Industry, by Gary S. Hickinbotham (born 1950), Handbook of Texas Online, Texas State Historical Association
- ^ The Starday Story: The House that Country Music Built, by Nathan D. Gibson & Don Pierce, University Press of Mississippi (2011), pg. 44 OCLC 729969854, 713030310, 816834818
- ^ Oral History snippet, ACA, Sonny Ray Stolz (né Rae Roy Stolz; born 1946), self-published, Houston, August 21, 2013
External links
- Tribute to Bill Holford, Shroom Productions Online, Houston, Richard S. Patz (owner)