Ron Murphy

Record cutter, mastering engineer, and record producer at Sound Enterprises in Detroit. Ron Murphy engineered for the first time around May 1966 for title "We Go To Pieces" a 45 single on Forest Hairston's Viney records label. He manned the classic reverb and echo units during Isaac Hayes' recording of “Walk On By” in 1971 at United Sound. In 1989 Steve Martel and Ron Murphy decided to open a store specializing in old phonograph records and named the business National Sound Corporation. Ron Murphy was also known as "Motown Murphy", as he had one of the largest Motown records collection and an extensive knowledge of the Detroit musical history. Ron Murphy spanned two great moments of Detroit music history: Motown and Detroit Techno.