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 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 the Guns N' Roses debut studio album Appetite for Destruction was recorded at a recording studio founded by 1970s pop duo Captain & Tennille?
- ... 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 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 10
- George Golla, Australian jazz guitarist, turns 89.
- Donovan, Scottish singer-songwriter, turns 78.
- Ahmed Abdullah, American multi-instrumentalist, turns 77.
- Alex Foster, American saxophonist, turns 71.
- Lorne Lofsky, Canadian guitarist, turns 70.
- Claude Deppa, South African trumpeter, turns 66.
- Bono, (born Paul Hewson) Irish activist and vocalist of U2 , turns 64.
- Philip Harper, American trumpeter, turns 59.
- Jason Dalyrimple, American R&B singer with Soul for Real, turns 44.
- Pe'er Tasi, Israeli singer, turns 40.
- Charice Pempengco, (born Charmaine Pempengco) Filipina singer and former Little Big Star contestant, turns 32.
- Jordan Francis, American rapper and actor, turns 33.
- Sid Vicious (Record production, 1957 –February 2, 1979), (born Simon John Ritchie) English musician and bassist of the Sex Pistols, would have turned 67 this year.
- Hans Reichel (Record production, 1949 –November 22, 2011), German guitarist and luthier, would have turned 75 this year.
- Jimmy Ponder (Record production, 1946 –September 16, 2013), American guitarist, would have turned 78 this year.
- Otha Young (Record production, 1943 –August 06, 2009), American musician (Juice Newton's bands) and songwriter, would have turned 81 this year.
- Wayne Cochran (Record production, 1939–November 21, 2017), American singer, would have turned 85 this year.
- Mike Melvoin (Record production, 1937 –February 22, 2012), American keyboardist, would have turned 87 this year.
- Julius Wechter (Record production, 1935 –February 01, 1999), American marimba player and vibraphonist, would have turned 89 this year.
- Joe Nay (Record production, 1934 –December 22, 1990), German percussionist, would have turned 90 this year.
- Mel Lewis (Record production, 1929 –February 02, 1990), American bandleader and drummer, would have turned 95 this year.
- Joe Holiday (Record production, 1925 –February 09, 2016), (born Joseph Befumo) Italian tenor saxophonist, would have turned 99 this year.
- Al Hendrickson (1920–2007), (born Alton Hendrickson) American guitarist, would have turned 104.
- Pee Wee Hunt (Record production, 1907 –June 22, 1979), (born Walter Gerhardt Hunt) American trombonist and vocalist, would have turned 117 this year.
- Fred Astaire (Record production, 1899 –June 22, 1987), American singer and dancer, would have turned 125 this year.
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