Bill Holford

Bill Holford (born William Dwight Holford, Sr.; 12 June 1919 Bartlesville, Oklahoma – 22 March 1999 Houston) was, for 50 years, an American recording engineer and record producer. For 44 of those years, from 1948 to 1982, he was the affiliated with ACA Studios (Audio Company of America) in Houston as an owner, partner, and audio engineer.

ACA was one of the earliest multi-track analog recording studios in the country.

Addresses

1017 Westheimer

Houston

8208 Westpark Dr. Houston

• Juke Boy Bonner
• Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
• Jewel "Teasin'" Brown
• Arnett Cobb
• Johnny Copeland
• Peppermint Harris
• Lightnin' Hopkins
• Ivory Joe Hunter
• B.B. King
• Willie Love
• Webb Pierce
• Really Red
• Little Richard
• Buster Pickens
• Jimmy Swan
• Mitchell Torok
• Ernest Tubb and His Texas Troubadours
• Tag Williams
• Sonny Boy Williamson (aka Alex Miller)
• Johnny Winter
• Justin Wilson

• Starday Records
• Mercury Records
• Peacock Records
• Bellaire Records
• D Records
• Sarg Records
• Macy's Recordings

• The Starday Story: The House that Country Music Built, by Nathan D. Gibson & Don Pierce, University Press of Mississippi (2011), pg. 44 OCLC 729969854, 713030310, 816834818

• Killing Fields (1984)

• Hank Lam: 1968-1972; engineer
• George Holsomback; born 1947, engineer from 1973 - 1974, chief engineer 1974-1978.
• Andy Bradley (born Andrew M. Bradley; 1951), audio engineer
• Sonny Ray Stolz (born Rae Roy Stolz; 1946), audio engineer and editor, among other things, helped Holford move from ACA's temporary location at Savoy Drive in Houston into the acquired defunct studios of Jimmy Duncan's Soundville at 8208 Westpark, Houston. Soundville Studios was a division of Jimmy Duncan Productions, Inc. Stolz worked for ACA from the summer of 1972 until early 1973.

• Oral History snippet, ACA, Sonny Ray Stolz (né Rae Roy Stolz; born 1946), self-published, Houston, August 21, 2013