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)
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- ... 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?
- ... 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 one critic interpreted a SZA song as being about her fears about the growing influence of AI in the music industry?
- ... 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: September 26
- Gary Bartz, American alto/soprano saxophonist, turns 84.
- David Frizzell, American country music singer, turns 83.
- Bryan Ferry, Brit vocalist with Roxy Music, turns 79.
- Stuart Tosh, Scottish vocalist with Pilot, turns 73.
- Cesar Rosas, Mexican singer and songwriter with Los Lobos and Los Super Seven, turns 70.
- Craig Chaquico, American guitarist with Jefferson Starship, turns 70.
- Carlene Carter, American country music singer, turns 69.
- Doug Supernaw, American country music singer, turns 64.
- Al Pitrelli, American guitarist with Savatage and Trans-Siberian Orchestra, turns 62.
- Tracey Thorn, Brit vocalist with Everything But The Girl, turns 62.
- Cindy Herron, American R&B vocalist of En Vogue , turns 59.
- James Michael, American record producer, musician, songwriter and vocalist of Sixx:A.M. , turns 57.
- Paul Draper, British lyricist, multi-instrumentalist, and vocalist for Mansun, turns 52.
- Shawn Stockman, American R&B vocalist of Boyz II Men , turns 52.
- Nicholas Payton, American trumpeter, turns 51.
- Christina Milian, American R&B singer, turns 43.
- Richard Shannon Hoon (Record production, 1968 –October 21, 1995), singer with Blind Melon, would have turned 56 this year.
- Olivia Newton-John (Record production, 1948–August 08, 2022), British-Australian singer and actress , would have turned 76 this year.
- Lynn Anderson (Record production, 1947 –July 30, 2015), American grammy award-winning country musician, would have turned 77 this year.
- Joe Bauer (Record production, 1941–September {{{6}}}, 1982 ), American drummer for folk rock group, The Youngbloods, would have turned 83 this year.
- Dick Heckstall-Smith (Record production, 1934 –December 17, 2004), British tenor saxophonist, for Colosseum, would have turned 90 this year.
- Romano Mussolini (Record production, 1927 –February 03, 2006), Italian pianist, would have turned 97 this year.
- Gunter Kronberg (1926 – 1977), German alto saxophonist, would have turned 98.
- Julie London (Record production, 1926 –October 18, 2000), American actress and singer, would have turned 98 this year.
- Marty Robbins (Record production, 1925 –December 08, 1982), American Country Music Hall of Fame inductee, would have turned 99 this year.
- Nelson "Cadillac" Williams (1917 – 1973), American trumpeter, would have turned 107.
- Gus Deloof (Record production, 1909 –May 08, 1974), Belgian trumpeter, would have turned 115 this year.
- George Gershwin (Record production, 1898 –July 11, 1937), American composer and pianist, would have turned 126 this year.
- Alfred Cortot (Record production, 1877 –June 15, 1962), French-Swiss pianist and conductor, would have turned 147 this year.
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