Marker reads:

Producer Quin Ivy Norala and Quinvy Studios

Record store owner and WLAY disc jockey Quin Ivy established North Alabama Recording Studio (NORALA) at 104 E. Second Street in Sheffield in 1965. He purchased used equipment, including Ampex 351 and Berlant mono tape recorders and a radio station console. Ivy mounted egg cartons on the studio walls to deaden stray frequencies.

The first song recorded at NORALA was Florence native Donna Jean Thatcher’s “I’m Out of Touch.” Several months later Percy Sledge cut the classic “When A Man Loves A Woman.” With proceeds from the Sledge session, Ivy completed a better equipped studio across town in 1968 and named it Quinvy.

Ivy also produced Tony Borders, Buddy Causey, Jeanie Green, Z.Z. Hill, Ben E. King, Mickey Buckings and The New Breed, Don Varner, the U.S. Male and the Wee Juns.

Erected by Alabama Tourism Department 2014

See the photo gallery for the back of this marker commemorating Percy Sledge.

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Producer Quin Ivy – NORALA and Quinvy Studios marker

Producer Quin Ivy – NORALA and Quinvy Studios marker

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