House of Hits

Andy Bradley has been a professional recording engineer since 1978 and has served as SugarHill's chief engineer for the past 25 years. He has worked on Grammy-nominated projects with extensive credits in classical, jazz, Latin, blues, rock, folk, country, and every imaginable flavor of gospel music. Roger Wood is the author of Texas Zydeco and Down in Houston: Bayou City Blues. A Professor of English at Houston Community College Central, he also is a contributing writer to The Roots of Texas Music, The Handbook of Texas Music, Encyclopedia of the Blues, and various other books and periodicals.

Foreword by Deniz Tek
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Case for Greatness
Chapter 1. The Raid
Chapter 2. Domestic Crude
Chapter 3. The Independent Quinn
Chapter 4. Gold Star Records
Chapter 5. Label's Demise, New Studio's Rise: Recording in the House
Chapter 6. Pappy Daily and Starday Records
Chapter 7. The Big Studio Room Expansion
Chapter 8. Daily's Dominance and D Records
Chapter 9. Little Labels: Blues, Country, and Sharks
Chapter 10. Into the '60s and Quinn's Last Sessions
Chapter 11. Duke-Peacock: The Gold Star Connection
Chapter 12. The HSP Corporation Experiment Begins
Chapter 13. A House of Rock, Despite the Muck
Chapter 14. The HSP Aftermath and a New Direction
Chapter 15. International Artists Record Company: The Psychedelic Business Plan
Chapter 16. Disillusioned Dissolution
Chapter 17. Meaux Moves In, SugarHill Ascends
Chapter 18. The Freddy Fender Phenomenon
Chapter 19. The Later '70s and Early '80s
Chapter 20. Meaux's Final Phase
Chapter 21. Modern Music (Ad)Ventures
Chapter 22. Emergence of a RAD Idea
Chapter 23. Millennial Destiny
Chapter 24. Still Tracking in the Twenty-first Century
Appendix A: Catalogue of Interviews
Appendix B: Chart Records from the House of Hits
Appendix C: Selected Discographies: A Partial History
Appendix D: Chronology of Gold Star/SugarHill Engineers
Bibliography
Index