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 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 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 one critic interpreted a SZA song as being about her fears about the growing influence of AI in the music industry?
- ... that to promote the Buffalo Club, Rising Tide Records sent packages of plastic buffalo to music industry executives in Nashville?
Born this day
- Birthdays in Music: November 11
- Irvin Stokes, American trumpeter, turns 98.
- Roger Lavern, Brit keyboardist with The Tornados, turns 86.
- Vince Martell, American guitarist with Vanilla Fudge, turns 79.
- Chip Hawkins, Brit musician with The Tremeloes, turns 78.
- Chris Dreja, Brit rhythm guitarist with The Yardbirds, turns 78.
- Pat Daugherty, American southern rocker with Black Oak Arkansas, turns 77.
- Marvin Hannibal Peterson, American composer and trumpeter, turns 76.
- Jim Peterik, American guitarist, keyboardist and vocalist with The Ides of March, turns 74.
- Paul Cowsill, American musician with The Cowsills, turns 73.
- Andy Partridge, Brit singer, songwriter, and guitarist with XTC, turns 71.
- Marshall Crenshaw, American singer, songwriter and guitarist, turns 71.
- Dave Alvin, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, turns 69.
- Ian Craig Marsh, Brit musician with The Human League, Heaven 17, turns 68.
- Mike Mesaros, American bassist with The Smithereens, turns 67.
- Tony Gad, (born Tony Robinson) Brit bassist with Aswad, turns 67.
- Corinne Hermès, French singer, turns 63.
- James Morrison, Australian trumpeter, turns 62.
- Judith Edelman, American musician, turns 60.
- David L. Cook, American CCM artist and comedian, turns 56.
- Peaches, Canadian electronic musician, turns 56.
- Jason White, American guitarist with Pinhead Gunpowder, turns 51.
- Mike Leon Grosch, German singer, turns 48.
- Nikki Bratcher, American R&B singer with Divine, turns 44.
- Kalan Porter, Canadian singer, turns 39.
- Reina Tanaka, Japanese singer with Morning Musume, Aa!, Elegies, turns 35.
- Alan Levitt (Record production, 1932–November 28, 1994), American drummer, would have turned 92 this year.
- Hank Garland (Record production, 1930 –December 24, 2004), American session musician (guitarist), would have turned 94 this year.
- LaVern Baker (Record production, 1929 –March 10, 1997), American R&B singer, would have turned 95 this year.
- Ernestine Anderson (Record production, 1928 –March 10, 2016), American vocalist, would have turned 96 this year.
- Mose Allison (Record production, 1927–November 16, 2016), American blues pianist, songwriter, and vocalist, would have turned 97 this year.
- Hubert Fol (Record production, 1925–January 19, 1995), French alto saxophonist and bandleader, would have turned 99 this year.
- Willie Cook (Record production, 1923 –September 22, 2000), American trumpeter, would have turned 101 this year.
- Sonny White (Record production, 1917 –April 21, 1971), (born Ellerton Oswald) Panamanian pianist, would have turned 107 this year.
- Ivy Benson (Record production, 1913 –May 06, 1993), English bandleader, would have turned 111 this year.
- Dick Wilson (Record production, 1911 –November 24, 1941), American tenor saxophonist, would have turned 113 this year.
- Joseph Aerts (Record production, 1903 –September 09, 1973), Belgian drummer, would have turned 121 this year.
- Ernest Ansermet (Record production, 1883 –February 20, 1969), Swiss conductor, would have turned 141 this year.
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