CBS 30th Street Studio

CBS 30th Street Studio, also known as Columbia 30th Street Studio, and nicknamed "The Church", was an American recording studio operated by Columbia Records from 1948[1] to 1981 located at 207 East 30th Street, between Second and Third Avenues in Manhattan, New York City.

Actually containing two[2] Columbia sound rooms — "Studio C" and "Studio D" — the facility was considered by some in the music industry to offer the best-sounding recording venue of its time, while others considered it to have been the greatest recording studio in history.[2]

Numerous recordings were made there in all genres, including Ray Conniff's 'S Wonderful! (1956), Miles Davis' Kind of Blue (1959) and In A Silent Way (1969), Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story (Original Broadway Cast recording, 1957), Percy Faith's "Theme from A Summer Place" (1959), Chicago's Chicago Transit Authority (1969), Chicago (1970), and Chicago III (1971), Pink Floyd's The Wall (1979), as well as a recording about the city itself, Frank Sinatra's "New York, New York".[3]

  1. ^ North, James (June 15, 2006). New York Philharmonic: The Authorized Recordings, 1917-2005. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. p. xx. ISBN 9780810862395. Retrieved December 21, 2014 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ a b Simons, David (2004). Studio Stories - How the Great New York Records Were Made. San Francisco: Backbeat Books. ISBN 9780879308179.
  3. ^ "Great Sound vs. Bottom Line". Billboard. November 1, 1980. p. 18 – via Google Books.