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 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 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 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?
Born this day
- Birthdays in Music: June 15
- Muff Winwood, Brit songwriter and record producer with Spencer Davis Group, turns 81.
- Noddy Holder, Brit singer and rhythm guitarist with Slade, turns 78.
- Russell Charles Hitchcock, Australian vocalist with Air Supply, turns 75.
- Steve Walsh, American singer with Kansas and Streets, turns 73.
- Kai Eckhardt, German bassist and composer with Garaj Mahal, turns 63.
- Yoshimi Iwasaki, Japanese actress and singer, turns 63.
- Andrea Rost, Hungarian lyric soprano, turns 62.
- Gavin Greenaway, Brit composer and conductor, turns 60.
- Idalis DeLeon, American VJ, actress, and singer with Seduction, turns 58.
- Ice Cube, American rapper-turned-actor, turns 55.
- Gaëlle Méchaly, French soprano singer, turns 54.
- Bif Naked, (born Beth Torbert) Canadian punk rock singer, turns 53.
- Hans Erik Husby, Norwegian vocalist with Turbonegro, turns 52.
- William Dean Martin, American guitarist and keyboardist with Good Charlotte, turns 43.
- Julia Fischer, German violinist, turns 41.
- Nadine Coyle, Irish girl group vocalist with Girls Aloud, turns 39.
- Johnny Hallyday (Record production, 1943 –December 06, 2017), French Victoires de la Musique award-winning singer and actor, would have turned 81 this year.
- Demis Roussos (Record production, 1943 –January 25, 2015), Greek bassist and vocalist, would have turned 81 this year.
- Harry Nilsson (Record production, 1941 –January 15, 1994), American singer and composer, would have turned 83 this year.
- Waylon Jennings (Record production, 1937 –February 13, 2002), American country music singer, would have turned 87 this year.
- Sergio Endrigo (Record production, 1933 –September 07, 2005), Italian singer and songwriter, would have turned 91 this year.
- John Veale (Record production, 1922 –November 16, 2006), Brit classical music composer, would have turned 102 this year.
- Erroll Garner (Record production, 1921 –January 02, 1977), American jazz pianist and composer, would have turned 103 this year.
- Michalis Genitsaris (Record production, 1917 –May 11, 2005), Greek singer and composer, would have turned 107 this year.
- David Rose (songwriter) (Record production, 1910 –August 23, 1990), American bandleader and composer, would have turned 114 this year.
- Edvard Grieg (Record production, 1843 –September 04, 1907), Norwegian composer, would have turned 181 this year.
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