Ardent Studios was used by recording artists including Led Zeppelin, Bob Dylan, James Taylor, ZZ Top, R.E.M., Stevie Ray Vaughan, Al Green, the Allman Brothers Band, B.B.
Fry had served as the national president of the Society of Professional Audio Recording Services (SPARS); chairman of the Tennessee Film, Entertainment, and Music Commission; chairman of the Memphis Film Commission; president and national trustee of the Memphis Chapter of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (Grammy organization), and chairman of the Memphis and Shelby County Music Commission.
[3] He was the chairman of the University of Memphis Music Industry Advisory Board.
[5] On November 6, 2014, Fry was inducted into the Memphis Music Hall of Fame.
[6] Fry died of cardiac arrest in a Memphis hospital on December 18, 2014, at the age of 69.