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 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 Castle Recording Laboratory, Nashville's first commercial recording studio, was established in a repurposed hotel banquet room?
- ... 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?
Born this day
- Birthdays in Music: May 23
- Daniel Humair, Swiss drummer, turns 86.
- Marvin Stamm, American trumpeter, turns 85.
- Don Moye, American percussionist, turns 78.
- Richie Beirach, American jazz pianist, turns 77.
- Randy Sandke, American trumpeter, turns 75.
- Judy Rodman, American country music singer and voice instructor, turns 73.
- Luka Bloom, (born Kevin Moore) Irish singer-songwriter, turns 69.
- Nat Adderley, Jr., American guitarist and keyboardist, turns 69.
- James Mankey, American guitarist of Concrete Blonde fame, turns 69.
- Steve Kirby, American double bassist, turns 68.
- Ken Peplowski, American clarinetist and tenor saxophonist, turns 65.
- Phil Selway, Brit guitarist with Radiohead, turns 57.
- Maxwell, American R&B singer, turns 51.
- Jewel, (born Jewel Kilcher) American pop music singer, turns 50.
- Randolph Colville (Record production, 1942 –January 15, 2004), Scottish clarinetist and saxophonist, would have turned 82 this year.
- Bjorn Johansen (Record production, 1940 –April 03, 2002), Norwegian saxophonist, would have turned 84 this year.
- Les Spann (Record production, 1932 –January 24, 1989), American flautist and guitarist, would have turned 92 this year.
- Julian Euell (Record production, 1929 –June 03, 2019), American bass player, would have turned 95 this year.
- Rosemary Clooney (Record production, 1928 –June 29, 2002), American actress and singer, would have turned 96 this year.
- Humphrey Lyttelton (Record production, 1921 –April 25, 2008), Brit bandleader and trumpeter, would have turned 103 this year.
- Helen O'Connell (Record production, 1920 –September 09, 1993), American vocalist, would have turned 104 this year.
- Johnny Bothwell (Record production, 1919 –August 02, 1995), American alto saxophonist, would have turned 105 this year.
- Artie Shaw (Record production, 1910 –December 30, 2004), American bandleader, clarinetist, and composer, would have turned 114 this year.
- John Harrington (Record production, 1910 –September 28, 1989), American alto saxophonist and clarinetist, would have turned 114 this year.
- Scatman Crothers (Record production, 1910 –November 22, 1986), American vocalist and drummer, would have turned 114 this year.
- Edgar Hayes (Record production, 1904 –June 28, 1979), American arranger, bandleader, and pianist, would have turned 120 this year.
- Fred Guy (Record production, 1897 –December 22, 1971), American banjoist and guitarist, would have turned 127 this year.
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