Portal:Record production
The Record Production Portal
This portal is focused on music production within the era of written records through sound recordings, digital downloads, and beyond. Its scope includes articles that document the considerations and mechanisms used by, and consistent with, the purview of the production element. As an art form, music predates transcription and simultaneously transcends descriptive limitations. As an industry, music has demonstrated consistent viability over time. The record producer conjoins these potential, and serves as a broker to bridge the demand (spawned by their aspirations) with supply and satisfaction. The results are measurable and attributable, derived from effort and skillful application of craft, to a manifestation of the art in its melodic form. (Read more)
The music industry consists of the individuals and organizations that earn money by writing songs and musical compositions, creating and selling recorded music and sheet music, presenting concerts, as well as the organizations that aid, train, represent and supply music creators. Among the many individuals and organizations that operate in the industry are: the songwriters and composers who write songs and musical compositions; the singers, musicians, conductors, and bandleaders who perform the music; the record labels, music publishers, recording studios, music producers, audio engineers, retail and digital music stores, and performance rights organizations who create and sell recorded music and sheet music; and the booking agents, promoters, music venues, road crew, and audio engineers who help organize and sell concerts. (Read more)
Did you know (auto-generated) -
- ... that to promote the Buffalo Club, Rising Tide Records sent packages of plastic buffalo to music industry executives in Nashville?
- ... that according to Billboard magazine, Laufey created a blueprint for jazz music in the modern music industry and helped push it back into the mainstream?
- ... that Castle Recording Laboratory, Nashville's first commercial recording studio, was established in a repurposed hotel banquet room?
- ... that when Divine's song "Lately" topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 1998, it became the first number-one single for the performers, the songwriters, the producers, and the record labels?
- ... that until the release of the documentary Predator: The Secret Scandal of J-Pop, sexual abuse claims involving record producer Johnny Kitagawa went widely unreported in Japanese media?
- ... that the Guns N' Roses debut studio album Appetite for Destruction was recorded at a recording studio founded by 1970s pop duo Captain & Tennille?
Born this day
- Birthdays in Music: May 31
- Louis Hayes, American drummer, turns 87.
- Peter Yarrow, American singer-songwriter of Peter, Paul & Mary, turns 86.
- Junior Campbell, (born William Campbell) Scottish musician and vocalist with Marmalade , turns 77.
- Greg Abate, American saxophonist, turns 77.
- Paulinho Da Costa, Brazilian percussionist, turns 76.
- Karl Bartos, German percussionist with Kraftwerk, turns 72.
- Marty Ehrlich, American flautist, turns 69.
- Danny Pearson, American bassist with American Music Club, turns 65.
- Corey Hart, Canadian keyboardist and singer-songwriter, turns 62.
- Wendy Smith, Brit guitarist and vocalist with Prefab Sprout, turns 61.
- Darryl McDaniels, (born Darryl Lovelace) American rapper of Run-D.M.C. , turns 60.
- Steve White (drummer), Brit drummer with The Style Council, turns 59.
- Julian Siegel, Brit multi-instrumentalist, turns 58.
- Christian McBride, American bass player, turns 52.
- Michael Lynche, American singer and American Idol contestant, turns 41.
- David Hernandez (singer), American singer and former American Idol contestant, turns 41.
- John Bonham (Record production, 1948 –September 25, 1980), Brit drummer of Led Zeppelin , would have turned 76 this year.
- Johnny Paycheck (Record production, 1941 –February 19, 2003), American country music singer, would have turned 83 this year.
- Tootie Heath (Record production, 1935 –April 03, 2024), American drummer, would have turned 89 this year.
- Red Holloway (Record production, 1927 –February 25, 2012), American saxophonist, would have turned 97 this year.
- Duncan Campbell (Record production, 1926 –December 12, 2013), Brit session musician (trumpeter), would have turned 98 this year.
- Eddie Thompson (Record production, 1925 –November 06, 1986), Brit pianist, would have turned 99 this year.
- Alan Clare (Record production, 1921 –November 28, 1993), Brit jazz pianist, would have turned 103 this year.
- Jimmy Shirley (Record production, 1913 –December 03, 1989), American guitarist, would have turned 111 this year.
- Gene Gifford (Record production, 1908 –November 12, 1970), American arranger, banjoist, and guitarist, would have turned 116 this year.
- Otto Hardwick (Record production, 1904 –August 05, 1970), American alto saxophonist, would have turned 120 this year.
- Stan Brenders (Record production, 1904 –June 01, 1969), Belgian bandleader and pianist, would have turned 120 this year.
- Billy Mayerl (Record production, 1902 –March 25, 1959), Brit ragtime pianist, would have turned 122 this year.
- Denis Rose (Record production, 1892 –November 22, 1984), Brit pianist, trumpeter and tenor horn player, would have turned 132 this year.
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