Portal:Record_production
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)
- ... 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 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 to promote the Buffalo Club, Rising Tide Records sent packages of plastic buffalo to music industry executives in Nashville?
- ... that Castle Recording Laboratory, Nashville's first commercial recording studio, was established in a repurposed hotel banquet room?
- ... that the Guns N' Roses debut studio album Appetite for Destruction was recorded at a recording studio founded by 1970s pop duo Captain & Tennille?
- Birthdays in Music: April 23
- Bunky Green, (born Vernice Green) American alto saxophonist, turns 89.
- Pierre Courbois, Dutch jazz drummer, turns 84.
- Alan Broadbent, New Zealand arranger, composer, and jazz pianist, turns 77.
- David Cross, British violinist and keyboardist for King Crimson, turns 75.
- Narada Michael Walden, American drummer and record producer, turns 72.
- Kendra Shank, American guitarist and vocalist, turns 66.
- Thilo Berg, German bandleader, drummer, and record producer, turns 65.
- Simon Hale, Brit keyboardist, turns 60.
- Steve Clark (Record production, 1960 –January 8, 1991), British musician and lead guitarist for Def Leppard, would have turned 64 this year.
- Roy Orbison (Record production, 1936 –December 6, 1988), American singer, would have turned 88 this year.
- Bobby Rosengarden (Record production, 1924 –February 27, 2007), American drummer, would have turned 100 this year.
- Benny Harris (Record production, 1919 –May 11, 1975), American trumpeter, would have turned 105 this year.
- Jimmie Noone (Record production, 1895 –April 19, 1944), American bandleader and clarinetist, would have turned 129 this year.
- Cow Cow Davenport (Record production, 1894 –December 03, 1955), (born Charles Edward Davenport) American boogie woogie pianist, would have turned 130 this year.
- Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (Record production, 1891 –March 05, 1953), Russian and Soviet composer, pianist and conductor, would have turned 133 this year.
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Album era • Album-equivalent unit • Audio engineering • Independent record label • Record chart • Record producer • Music library • Lists of albums • List of most valuable records
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Record labels
RCA – MCA – Capitol – BNA – Arista – EMI – Mediarts – Virgin – Metromedia – Warner Bros. – Sony – Colossus – Dunhill – Def Jam – Sun
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Record producers
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