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 to promote the Buffalo Club, Rising Tide Records sent packages of plastic buffalo to music industry executives in Nashville?
- ... 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?
Born this day
- Birthdays in Music: October 17
- Michael Eavis, Brit dairy farmer and founder of the Glastonbury Festival, turns 89.
- Gary Puckett, American singer, turns 82.
- Cameron Mackintosh, acclaimed British theatre producer, turns 78.
- David St. Hubbins, fictitious lead guitarist for Spinal Tap, turns 77.
- Bill Hudson, comedian and singer with The Hudson Brothers, turns 75.
- Joseph Bowie, American bandleader, trombonist, and Defunkt founder, turns 71.
- Alan Jackson, American country music singer and songwriter, turns 66.
- Howard Alden, American guitarist, turns 66.
- Anne Rogers, Brit bassist for Popinjays, turns 62.
- Rene Dif, (aka MEGA-Aqua) Danish-Algerian vocalist for Aqua, turns 57.
- Ziggy Marley, Jamaican born reggae singer for Melody Makers, turns 56.
- Chris Kirkpatrick, American countertenor vocalist with NSYNC, a multi-platinum recording boy band, turns 53.
- Eminem, (nee Marshall Mathers) American rapper and lyricist, turns 52.
- Wyclef Jean, (nee Nelust Wyclef Jean) Haitian-born singer, songwriter with The Fugees, turns 52.
- Tarkan, Turkish pop singer, turns 52.
- Sergio Andrade, American bassist from Lifehouse, turns 46.
- Dami Im, Korean born Australian singer, songwriter, turns 36.
- Michael Hossack (Record production, 1946 –March 12, 2012), American drummer for The Doobie Brothers, would have turned 78 this year.
- Jim 'James' Seals (Record production, 1941–June 6, 2022), American singer, fiddler and guitarist of Seals & Crofts , would have turned 83 this year.
- Earl Thomas Conley (Record production, 1941–April 10, 2019), American country music singer-songwriter, would have turned 83 this year.
- The Singing Nun (Record production, 1933 –March 29, 1985), (nee Jeanne-Paule Marie Deckers) Belgian singer and Dominican convent nun, would have turned 91 this year.
- Barney Kessel (Record production, 1923 –May 06, 2004), American jazz guitarist, would have turned 101 this year.
- Luiz Bonfá (Record production, 1922 –January 12, 2001), (born Luiz Floriano Bonfá) Brazilian composer, guitarist, and vocalist, would have turned 102 this year.
- Cozy Cole (Record production, 1909 –January 31, 1981), (nee William Randolph Cole) American drummer, would have turned 115 this year.
- David Bee (1903 – 1992), (nee Ernest Craps) Belgian arranger, would have turned 121.
- Lee Collins (Record production, 1901 –July 03, 1960), American trumpeter, would have turned 123 this year.
- Leslie Thompson (Record production, 1901 –December 26, 1987), Jamaica trumpeter, would have turned 123 this year.
- Jimmy Harrison (Record production, 1900 –July 23, 1931), American trombonist, would have turned 124 this year.
- Shinichi Suzuki (violinist) (Record production, 1898 –January 26, 1998), Creator of the Suzuki method, would have turned 126 this year.
- Domenico Zipoli (Record production, 1688 –January 02, 1726), Italian composer, would have turned 336 this year.
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