Talk:The Hit Factory

message: :The final album to be recorded in The Hit Factory New York was Dream Theater's Octavarium.
I'm curious, when was the last album recorded? Gbeeker 21:49, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It may be almost a year later, but I just added this in (It was Friday, February 25, 2005)  --Varco 20:22, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

text: Baddie rawr 173.62.189.147 (talk) 15:13, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: hey i just added a ton of info, but forgot to sign in before doing so. 
cheers,
-c  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Charlienyc (talk • contribs) 02:18, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  recent edits 

message: I remember reading somewhere that Jerry Ragovoy founded The Hit Factory, but no mention is made here of that - only of it being sold. Does anyone have further info.? Thanx. --Technopat (talk) 10:41, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: According to NYTimes.com and LATimes.com, Ragovoy founded this studio in 1969. And according to Sound on Sound, Ragavoy (sic, aka Ragovoy) invited Bill Szymczyk as a regular engineer in 1967 when Ragovoy was preparing for founding this studio.--Ikespirit (talk) 16:55, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ragovoy's involvement 

message: I realise that with studios located in different places it's difficult, but the fact is that the article just confuses the issue further. I have just deleted a reference to Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life (1975-76) having been the first album to have been recorded there (at one of the studios?), whereas the actual article page for that particular album states differently. Of course, recording & mixing & remastering, etc. are often done in diffent places, but this should get sorted. No mention is made of chief engineer Bill Szymczyk, who was there in the late 60s/early-70s during what I would imagine was The Hit Factory's heyday and certainly when it made its name. I wish I could do something to help sort this out but I don't know enough about the matter - and even if I did, it would be original research. As the article stands, it is just an assortment of trivia and unconnected "facts". Hope someone can do something 'bout it. Thanx. --Technopat (talk) 11:05, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Locations, etc. 

message: I read the following paragraph in the "References" section:
"Rapper KRS-One and Marley Marl dedicated a song to the House of hits on their album Hip Hop Lives. The song features Busy Bee Starski on the chorus. In the song, KRS-One name drops a few of the most potent artists in Hip Hop. Marley Marl's home studio is called Marley's House of Hits. The song does not refer to the Hit Factory.[6]"
Seems to me to say that the song has nothing to do with the subject of the article. Is there a need for a section in an article about The Hit Factory about things that aren't related to The Hit Factory? Omegadrone (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 12:17, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  References 

message: Removed the unsourced accusation "Troy Germano (CEO and son of owner Edward Germano) told the New York Post, however, that rumors about the "digital age" or a lack of business were false, and that the studio had closed directly due to the actions of his mother, Janice Germano. Which is true because im in the Germano Family it is true".
I checked the NY Post and found no such article.
Emanonguy (talk) 16:37, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unsourced accusations 

message: Just out of curiosity, how could she have recorded her album at the NYC location in 2013 given that it closed in 2005?
74.131.28.180 (talk) 23:35, 11 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kelly Rowland 

message: The Broadway location of the Hit Factory had a long history of recording before Ed Germano's purchase.
237 West 54th Street was originally Bell Sound Studio, where such recordings as "Rave On" by Buddy Holly, "Runaway" by Del Shannon, "Lonely Boy" and "Diana" by Paul Anka, "A House Is Not A Home" by Dionne Warwick, "Stagger Lee" by Lloyd Price, and the first album by the band Kiss were made. Many record labels that had access to their own cutting lathes (where the "master" for vinyl record pressing plates originates) would use Bell Studios instead.
Read more here:
http://books.google.com/books?id=wQoEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA43&lpg=PA43&dq=bell+sound+studio+new+york&source=bl&ots=XKUpqektZU&sig=50r06D3YdZ4YUjS_RlAmw0PLHMU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=FheAU5m-BNHhsATso4HABQ&ved=0CFoQ6AEwCg#v=onepage&q=bell%20sound%20studio%20new%20york&f=false
I believe mentioning this would be historically significant.
2001:558:6016:33:75E8:F4E7:E337:8E69 (talk) 04:17, 24 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hit Factory/Bell Sound