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 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 Castle Recording Laboratory, Nashville's first commercial recording studio, was established in a repurposed hotel banquet room?
- ... 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 22
- Franz Koglmann, Austrian composer, flugelhorn player, trumpeter, and record label owner, turns 77.
- Bernie Taupin, Brit lyricist, turns 74.
- Nat Adderley, Jr., American pianist and guitarist, turns 69.
- Morrissey, (born Steven Patrick Morrissey) Brit singer and songwriter with The Smiths, turns 65.
- Jesse Valenzuela, American guitarist with Gin Blossoms, turns 62.
- Johnny Gill, American R&B singer of New Edition and LSG fame, turns 58.
- Dan Roberts (bassist), Canadian bassist with Crash Test Dummies, turns 57.
- Léon Francioli (Record production, 1946 –March 09, 2016), Swiss bassist and cellist, would have turned 78 this year.
- Dick Berk (Record production, 1939 –February 08, 2014), American drummer, would have turned 85 this year.
- Giuseppi Logan (Record production, 1935 –April 17, 2020), American pianist and reedist, would have turned 89 this year.
- Peter Nero (Record production, 1934 –July 6, 2023), American conductor and pianist, would have turned 90 this year.
- Kenny Ball (Record production, 1930 –March 07, 2013), (born Kenneth Daniel Ball) Brit trumpeter, would have turned 94 this year.
- Jackie Cain (Record production, 1928 –September 15, 2014), American jazz vocalist, would have turned 96 this year.
- Elek Bacsik (Record production, 1926 –February 14, 1993), Hungarian jazz guitarist, would have turned 98 this year.
- Eric Delaney (Record production, 1924 –July 14, 2011), Brit drummer, would have turned 100 this year.
- Joe Springer (Record production, 1916 –October 24, 2004), American pianist, would have turned 108 this year.
- Sun Ra (Record production, 1914 –May 30, 1993), (born Herman Sonny Blount) American bandleader, composer, and keyboardist, would have turned 110 this year.
- Roger Segure (Record production, 1905 –January 28, 2000), American arranger, would have turned 119 this year.
- Eddie Edwards (musician) (Record production, 1891 –April 09, 1963), American trombonist, would have turned 133 this year.
- Giacomo Carissimi (Record production, 1605 –January 12, 1674), Italian composer, would have turned 419 this year.
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