[1][2] Built in 1960, Starday Sound once was one of the city's busiest studios, with artists including James Brown, Dottie West and Jim Reeves recording there.

[4] Unlike those studios, it was not located in what was to become known as Music Row but in Madison, Tennessee, a bedroom community in northeast Davidson County.

The building shared space with Starday Records president Don Pierce's publishing company.

James Brown recorded some of his biggest hits at the studio, beginning with "Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine", cut in the early hours of April 26, 1970, after Brown wrote the song backstage following a Nashville concert the previous night.

[6] Brown also recorded "Super Bad", "Hot Pants", "I'm a Greedy Man" and several other songs there between 1970 and 1975.