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 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 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: October 12
- Sam Moore, American R&B singer of Sam & Dave fame, turns 89.
- Susan Anton, American actress and singer, turns 74.
- Issa, (nee Jane Siberry) Canadian singer-songwriter, turns 69.
- David Letts, Brit vocalist for The Damned, turns 68.
- Ed Cherry, American guitarist, turns 67.
- Michael Mossman, American trumpeter, turns 65.
- Claude McKnight, American R&B singer and one-sixth of a cappella gospel music outfit, Take 6, turns 62.
- Bob Schneider, American roots rock vocalist, turns 59.
- Harry Allen, American tenor saxophonist, turns 58.
- Martie Seidel, American singer and violinist for Dixie Chicks, turns 55.
- Garfield Bright, American R&B singer with Shai, turns 55.
- Brian Kennedy, Irish singer and songwriter for Van Morrison, turns 58.
- Hugh Jackman, Australian actor and singer, turns 56.
- Jordan Pundik, American singer with New Found Glory, turns 45.
- Bambi Monroe (born Ashley Taylor Horn), American singer and actress, turns 32.
- Pat DiNizio (Record production, 1955–December 12, 2017), American singer and songwriter with The Smithereens, would have turned 69 this year.
- Rick Parfitt (Record production, 1948 –December 24, 2016), Brit rhythm guitarist and vocalist for Status Quo, would have turned 76 this year.
- Melvin Franklin (Record production, 1942 –February 23, 1995), American soul musician with The Temptations, would have turned 82 this year.
- Luciano Pavarotti (Record production, 1935 –September 6, 2007 ), Italian opera singer, would have turned 89 this year.
- Nappy Brown (Record production, 1929 –September 20, 2008), (nee Napoleon Brown Goodson Culp) American blues singer, would have turned 95 this year.
- Matsumoto Hidehiko (Record production, 1926 –February 29, 2000), (aka Sleepy Matsumoto) Japanese tenor saxophonist, would have turned 98 this year.
- Steve Conway (Record production, 1920 –April 19, 1952), (nee Walter James Groom) Brit big band vocalist, would have turned 104 this year.
- Jimmy Archey (Record production, 1902 –November 16, 1967), American trombonist, would have turned 122 this year.
- Tubby Hall (Record production, 1895 –May 13, 1945), American drummer, would have turned 129 this year.
- Ralph Vaughan Williams (Record production, 1872 –August 26, 1958), English composer, would have turned 152 this year.
- Arthur Nikisch (Record production, 1855 –January 23, 1922), Hungarian conductor, would have turned 169 this year.
- Bernardo Pisano (Record production, 1490 –January 23, 1548), Italian composer, would have turned 534 this year.
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