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 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?
- ... that the Guns N' Roses debut studio album Appetite for Destruction was recorded at a recording studio founded by 1970s pop duo Captain & Tennille?
Born this day
- Birthdays in Music: April 20
- Ran Blake, American pianist, turns 89.
- Johnny Tillotson, American singer and songwriter, turns 85.
- Craig Frost, American keyboardist of Grand Funk Railroad , turns 76.
- Holly Hofmann, American flautist, turns 68.
- John Altenburgh, American pianist, turns 64.
- Ashley Slater, Canadian trombonist, turns 63.
- Issi Rozen, Israeli jazz guitarist, turns 53.
- Avishai Cohen, Israeli bass player, turns 53.
- Stephen Marley, Jamaican singer with Melody Makers, turns 52.
- Sebastian Ingrosso, member of Swedish House Mafia, turns 41.
- Mikey Welsh (Record production, 1971 –October 08, 2011), American bassist of Weezer, would have turned 53 this year.
- Luther Vandross (Record production, 1951 –July 01, 2005), American Grammy Award-winning R&B singer, would have turned 73 this year.
- Joe Bonner (Record production, 1948 –November 20, 2014), American jazz pianist, would have turned 76 this year.
- Jimmy Winston (Record production, 1945 –September 26, 2020), English organist for Small Faces, would have turned 79 this year.
- Billy James (Record production, 1936 –November 20, 2009), American drummer and talent scout, would have turned 88 this year.
- Beaver Harris (Record production, 1936 –December 22, 1991), American drummer, would have turned 88 this year.
- Bob Braun (Record production, 1929 –January 15, 2001), American one-hit wonder and radio personality, would have turned 95 this year.
- Cy Laurie (Record production, 1926 –April 18, 2002), Brit clarinetist, would have turned 98 this year.
- Henri Renaud (Record production, 1925 –October 16, 2002), French pianist and record producer, would have turned 99 this year.
- Tito Puente (Record production, 1923 –May 31, 2000), American percussionist, would have turned 101 this year.
- Charlie Lourie (Record production, 1920 –December 31, 2000), American record producer and founder of the Mosaic Records imprint, would have turned 104 this year.
- Vera Auer (Record production, 1919 –August 02, 1996), Austrian accordionist and vibraphonist, would have turned 105 this year.
- Lionel Hampton (Record production, 1908 –August 31, 2002), American bandleader, percussionist, and pianist, would have turned 116 this year.
- Emile Christian (Record production, 1895 –December 03, 1973), American clarinetist, saxophonist, and trombonist, would have turned 129 this year.
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