Do-Ra-Me Records

1950s-1960s country label from Nashville, Tennessee, owned by Murray Nash. For unofficial releases on the label, see Do-Ra-Me Records (2). Murray Nash's Do-Ra-Me Records was based in Nashville, Tennessee. Nash was an influential but today mostly forgotten record producer during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. He worked for RCA-Victor and Mercury during the 1940s and almost became director of the Grand Ole Opry in the mid-1950s. However, Nash started to produce records for independent labels by 1955 and branched out on his own and established Ashna Music in the late 1950s. Ashna ("pig latin" for Nash) was the parent company to a couple of record labels operated by Nash during this time. Do-Ra-Me was launched in 1959. In early 1960, Nash bought Reavis Recording Studio in Nashville from Joe Reavis and established his "Recording of Nashville" studio there, which had been in the Cumberland Lodge Building from 1955 on. It can be assumed that a lot of the recordings on Do-Ra-Me were recorded at Sound of Nashville.