Musician and Producer. In his youth, he was interested in the banjo, but his older brother Owen suggested that he concentrate on guitar. By 1943, while still in high school, he landed a summer job playing lead guitar with Ernest Tubb's Texas Troubadours. After serving in the navy from 1944 to 1946, Harold enrolled at George Peabody College in Nashville, where he studied music, and played at the Opry in the evenings with Eddy Arnold and Bradley Kincaid to earn extra income. His first country recording session came in 1946, when he recorded with Pee Wee King's Golden West Cowboys. In 1950, he recorded on Red Foley's smash hit "Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy," which went to #1 on both the country and pop charts. During the 1960s, he recorded three albums as a pop guitarist on Columbia Records, "Misty Guitar", "Guitar for Lovers Only" and "Bossa Nova Goes to Nashville". As a session guitarist, he was part of a studio-guitar triumvirate with lead specialists Hank Garland and Grady Martin, known as the "A-Team of Superpickers". Bradley's rhythm playing wasn't always apparent when listening to recordings, although his parts were essential contributions, as in Roy Orbison's 1961 hit "Crying". Bradley did play lead parts that stood out as in the opening banjo notes on Johnny Horton's 1959 hit "The Battle of New Orleans" and his electric bass guitar work can be heard on Patsy Cline's "Crazy." Over the years Bradley played on literally hundreds of hit recordings, including Eddy Arnold's "Make the World Go Away", Don Gibson's "Oh Lonesome Me", Brenda Lee's "I'm Sorry" and Roger Miller's "King of the Road". Among other artists he recorded hits with were Ray Price, Jeannie C. Riley, Bobby Vinton, Burl Ives, Tammy Wynette and Conway Twitty. After operating two small Nashville recording studios in the early 1950s, Bradley and his brother Owen opened Bradley Film and Recording in 1955, and two years later, added a second studio, using a military Quonset hut. Along with RCA Studio B, the Bradley Studios helped give birth to the pop-influenced Nashville Sound. In addition to his studio achievements, Bradley was the first president of Nashville's chapter of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS). In the 1980s he toured with Floyd Cramer and served as bandleader for Slim Whitman. He also produced Irish country singer Sandy Kelly and Eddy Arnold's later RCA albums. In 1991 Bradley began his long service as president of Nashville's chapter of the American Federation of Musicians (AF of M) and later became that organization's international vice president. Shortly before the announcement of his 2006 induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame, he received the AF of M's prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2010 Harold was one recipient of the Trustees Award at the 52nd Grammy Awards. in 2016, he received the Cecil Scaife Visionary Award during a gala event at the Musicians Hall of Fame. Among film soundtracks that featured Bradley's work are 'Kissin' Cousins', 'Clambake', 'Stay Away Joe', 'The Fastest Guitar Alive', 'Sugarland Express', 'A Walk In the Spring Rain', 'Tick, Tick, Tick', 'Breathless', 'Smokey & The Bandit II', 'Coal Miner's Daughter', 'Six Pack', 'Missing' and 'Sweet Dreams'. Bradley also appeared briefly in Robert Altman's award-winning movie 'Nashville'. Bradley died of age-related natural causes.