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 one critic interpreted a SZA song as being about her fears about the growing influence of AI in the music industry?
- ... 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 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 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 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: August 17
- John Seiter, of Spanky and Our Gang, turns 80.
- Gary Talley, American vocalist, lead guitarist, electric sitar player for Box Tops, turns 77.
- Kevin Rowland, singer, songwriter, and former frontman for Dexys Midnight Runners, turns 71.
- Eric Johnson (guitarist, born 1954), American guitarist, turns 70.
- Kevin Welch, American singer-songwriter, turns 69.
- Colin Moulding, British songwriter, vocalist, and bassist for XTC, turns 69.
- Belinda Carlisle, American singer, lead vocalist for The Go-Go's, turns 66.
- Gilby Clarke, American musician, singer, and songwriter formerly of Guns N' Roses and Slash's Snakepit, turns 62.
- Colin James, Canadian composer and blues guitarist, turns 60.
- Maria McKee, American singer of Lone Justice fame, turns 60.
- Steve Gorman, American drummer for The Black Crowes, turns 59.
- Jill Cunniff, American bassist for Luscious Jackson, turns 58.
- Donnie Wahlberg, American actor and member of New Kids On The Block, turns 55.
- Posdnuos, (nee Kelvin Mercer) of De La Soul, turns 55.
- Claire Richards, British singer with Steps, turns 47.
- Lil Pump (born Gazzy Garcia), American rapper, turns 24.
- Mark Salling (Record production, 1982 –January 30, 2018), American actor, musician, singer and composer, would have turned 42 this year.
- Sib Hashian (Record production, 1949 –March 22, 2017), drummer for Boston, would have turned 75 this year.
- Derek Smith (Record production, 1931 –August 19, 2016), British pianist, would have turned 93 this year.
- Thomas Jefferson Anderson, American composer, turns 96.
- Sam Butera (Record production, 1927 –June 03, 2009), American saxophonist and bandleader, would have turned 97 this year.
- George Melly, British jazz pianist and blues singer, turns 98.
- Jack Sperling (Record production, 1922 –February 26, 2004), American big band drummer, would have turned 102 this year.
- Wayne Raney (Record production, 1921 –January 23, 1993), American country music singer and harmonica player, would have turned 103 this year.
- Betty Cody (Record production, 1921 –July 01, 2014), American country music singer, would have turned 103 this year.
- George Duvivier (Record production, 1920 –July 11, 1985), Acclaimed bass player, would have turned 104 this year.
- Ike Quebec (Record production, 1918 –January 16, 1963), American tenor saxophone player, would have turned 106 this year.
- Larry Clinton (Record production, 1909 –May 02, 1985), American big band composer, bandleader and trumpeter, would have turned 115 this year.
- Abram Chasins (Record production, 1903 –June 06, 1987), American classical music composer and pianist, Juilliard graduate, would have turned 121 this year.
- Mae West (Record production, 1893 –November 22, 1980), American vaudeville actress, playwright, singer, and screenwriter, would have turned 131 this year.
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