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 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 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 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?
Born this day
- Birthdays in Music: May 13
- Colin Towns, Brit arranger, conductor, and keyboardist, turns 75.
- Stevie Wonder, American Academy Award and Grammy Award-winning pianist, singer, and songwriter, turns 74.
- Guus Janssen, Dutch jazz pianist, turns 73.
- John Richardson, American drummer for Gin Blossoms and Badfinger, turns 60.
- Darius Rucker, American vocalist with Hootie & The Blowfish, turns 58.
- Miles Griffith, American jazz vocalist, turns 55.
- Buckethead, (born Brian Patrick Carroll) American musician, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, turns 55.
- Lari White (Record production, 1965 –January 23, 2018), American singer, songwriter and actress, would have turned 59 this year.
- Danny Kirwan (Record production, 1950–June 08, 2018 ), British guitarist for Fleetwood Mac 1968-1972 , would have turned 74 this year.
- John Von Ohlen (Record production, 1941 –October 03, 2018), American drummer, would have turned 83 this year.
- Richie Valens (Record production, 1941–February 03, 1959), American guitarist and singer, would have turned 83 this year.
- Ross Tompkins (Record production, 1938–June 30, 2006), American pianist, would have turned 86 this year.
- Tim Colwell (Record production, 1938 –September 18, 2003), Brit alto saxophonist, bandleader, and composer, would have turned 86 this year.
- Buddy Catlett (Record production, 1933 –November 12, 2014), American bass player, would have turned 91 this year.
- Erik Moseholm (Record production, 1930 –October 12, 2012), Danish bass player, would have turned 94 this year.
- Creed Taylor (Record production, 1929 –August 22, 2022), American record producer and record label owner, would have turned 95 this year.
- Red Garland (Record production, 1923 –April 23, 1984), American pianist, would have turned 101 this year.
- Bobby Plater (Record production, 1914 –November 20, 1982), American alto saxophonist and flautist, would have turned 110 this year.
- Squire Gersh (Record production, 1913 –April 27, 1983), (born Eino William Girsback) American tubist, would have turned 111 this year.
- Gil Evans (Record production, 1912 –March 20, 1988), Canadian arranger, composer, pianist, and pioneer of multiple jazz subgenres, would have turned 112 this year.
- Maxine Sullivan (Record production, 1911 –April 07, 1987), American vocalist, would have turned 113 this year.
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