RCA Studio B

RCA Studio B is a recording studio in Nashville, Tennessee, established in 1957 by Steve Sholes and Chet Atkins for RCA Victor; it was named Studio B in 1965, when RCA Victor built the larger Studio A in an adjacent building. Located on what became Music Row, it was central to the development of the Nashville Sound, and in its two decades of operation it produced 60 percent of the hits on Billboard magazine's country chart. In her 1994 memoir, My Life and Other Unfinished Business, Dolly Parton recalled rushing to her first recording session at Studio B in October 1967, shortly after signing with RCA Victor, and driving her new Chevrolet through the side wall of the building. The studio closed in 1977 and has been owned since 1992 by the Country Music Hall of Fame, which runs scheduled tours of it.