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 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 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 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: September 20
- Chuck Panozzo, American guitarist with Styx, turns 76.
- Peter White, Brit guitarist, turns 70.
- John Harle, Brit composer and soprano saxophonist, turns 68.
- Alannah Currie, New Zealand vocalist and saxophonist with The Thompson Twins, turns 67.
- David Hemmingway, Brit drummer and vocalist; member of a cappella group, The Housemartins, turns 64.
- Nuno Bettencourt, American guitarist with Extreme, turns 58.
- Matthew Nelson, American bassist for glam metal band, Nelson, turns 57.
- Gunnar Nelson, American lead vocalist for glam metal band, Nelson, turns 57.
- Ben Shepherd, American bassist with Soundgarden , turns 56.
- Keith Semple, Irish composer and vocalist; member of One True Voice, turns 54.
- Namie Amuro, Japanese j-pop singer, turns 47.
- Sarit Hadad, Israeli singer, turns 46.
- Rick Woolstenhulme, American drummer with Lifehouse, turns 45.
- Ayano Ōmoto, Japanese singer with electropop band Perfume, turns 36.
- John Panozzo (Record production, 1948 –July 16, 1996), American drummer with Styx, would have turned 76 this year.
- Mia Martini (Record production, 1947 –May 12, 1995), (born Domenica Berté) Italian singer, would have turned 77 this year.
- Monica Zetterlund (Record production, 1938 –May 12, 2005), Swedish actress and vocalist, would have turned 86 this year.
- Peter Schmidli (1937 – 2001), Swiss banjoist and guitarist, would have turned 87.
- John Dankworth (Record production, 1927 –February 6, 2010), Brit bandleader and alto saxophonist, would have turned 97 this year.
- Gogi Grant (Record production, 1924 –March 10, 2016), American pop music singer, would have turned 100 this year.
- Frank Comstock (Record production, 1922 –May 21, 2013), American arranger, bandleader, composer, and pianist, would have turned 102 this year.
- William Kapell (Record production, 1922 –October 29, 1953), American pianist, would have turned 102 this year.
- Chico Hamilton (Record production, 1921–November 25, 2013), American drummer and bandleader, would have turned 103 this year.
- Bill DeArango (Record production, 1920 –January 02, 2006), American acclaimed bebop jazz guitarist, would have turned 104 this year.
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