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 the Guns N' Roses debut studio album Appetite for Destruction was recorded at a recording studio founded by 1970s pop duo Captain & Tennille?
- ... 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 Castle Recording Laboratory, Nashville's first commercial recording studio, was established in a repurposed hotel banquet room?
- ... 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 to promote the Buffalo Club, Rising Tide Records sent packages of plastic buffalo to music industry executives in Nashville?
- ... 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?
Born this day
- Birthdays in Music: May 25
- Marshall Allen, American alto saxophonist and flautist, turns 100.
- Gary Foster (musician), American saxophonist, turns 88.
- Phil Ranelin, (born Phillip Arthur Ranelin) American trombonist, turns 85.
- Klaus Meine, German vocalist with Scorpions, turns 76.
- Christof Lauer, German tenor saxophonist, turns 71.
- Paul Weller (singer), Brit singer-songwriter of Jam and Style Council fame, turns 66.
- Wallace Roney, American trumpeter, turns 64.
- Lauryn Hill, American Grammy Award-winning guitarist and rapper with The Fugees, turns 49.
- Peppino Gagliardi (Record production, 1940 –August 09, 2023), Italian singer, would have turned 84 this year.
- Piet Noordijk (Record production, 1932 –October 08, 2011), Dutch alto saxophonist, would have turned 92 this year.
- Beverly Sills (Record production, 1929 –July 02, 2007), (born Belle Miriam Silverman) American opera singer, would have turned 95 this year.
- Paul Oliver (Record production, 1927 –August 15, 2017), Brit music journalist, would have turned 97 this year.
- Milt Bernhart (Record production, 1926 –January 22, 2004), American trombonist, would have turned 98 this year.
- Lloyd Trotman (Record production, 1923 –October 03, 2007), American bass player, would have turned 101 this year.
- Kitty Kallen (Record production, 1922 –January 07, 2016), American big band vocalist, would have turned 102 this year.
- Frank Guida (Record production, 1922 –May 19, 2007), Italian composer and record producer, would have turned 102 this year.
- Hal David (Record production, 1921 –September 01, 2012), American lyricist, would have turned 103 this year.
- Jimmy Hamilton (Record production, 1917 –September 20, 1994), American clarinetist and tenor saxophonist, would have turned 107 this year.
- Marie Marcus (Record production, 1914 –October 10, 2003), American pianist, would have turned 110 this year.
- Pha Terrell (Record production, 1910 –October 14, 1945), American vocalist, would have turned 114 this year.
- George Guesnon (Record production, 1907 –May 05, 1968), American banjoist and vocalist, would have turned 117 this year.
- Buddie Petit (Record production, 1897 –July 04, 1931), American cornetist, would have turned 127 this year.
- Bill "Bojangles" Robinson (1878 – 1949), American entertainer, would have turned 146.
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