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 the Guns N' Roses debut studio album Appetite for Destruction was recorded at a recording studio founded by 1970s pop duo Captain & Tennille?
- ... 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 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 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: May 27
- Kenny Dennis, American drummer, turns 94.
- Bruce Cockburn, Canadian guitarist and singer-songwriter, turns 79.
- Marc Copland, American alto saxophonist and jazz pianist, turns 76.
- Dee Dee Bridgewater, American jazz vocalist, turns 74.
- Siouxsie Sioux, (born Susan Janet Ballion) British singer-songwriter for Siouxsie & The Banshees and The Creatures, turns 67.
- Eddie Harsch, American keyboardist with The Black Crowes, turns 67.
- Neil Finn, New Zealand singer and songwriter of Crowded House and Split Enz , turns 66.
- Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Cuban pianist, turns 61.
- Sean Kinney, American drummer with Alice In Chains, turns 58.
- André 3000, American actor and rapper of OutKast , turns 49.
- Chris Colfer, American singer and actor, turns 34.
- Lisa Lopes (Record production, 1971 –April 25, 2002), American rapper of TLC , would have turned 53 this year.
- Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen (Record production, 1946 –April 19, 2005), Danish double bassist, would have turned 78 this year.
- Teppo Hauta-Aho (Record production, 1941–November 27, 2021), Finnish bassist and composer, would have turned 83 this year.
- Don Williams (Record production, 1939 –September 03, 2017), American country singer, would have turned 85 this year.
- Rufus "Speedy" Jones (Record production, 1936 –April 25, 1990), American drummer, would have turned 88 this year.
- Ramsey Lewis (Record production, 1935–September 12, 2022), American pianist, would have turned 89 this year.
- Diz Disley (Record production, 1931 –March 22, 2010), (born William C. Disley) Canadian jazz guitarist, would have turned 93 this year.
- Bud Shank (Record production, 1926 –April 02, 2009), American reedist, would have turned 98 this year.
- Brother John Sellers (Record production, 1924 –March 27, 1999), American folk singer, would have turned 100 this year.
- Roy Harte (Record production, 1924 –October 26, 2003), American drummer, would have turned 100 this year.
- Jock Carruthers (Record production, 1910 –April 05, 1971), (born Earl Carruthers) American reedist and vocalist, would have turned 114 this year.
- Harold Rome (Record production, 1908 –October 26, 1993), American songwriter, would have turned 116 this year.
- Albert Nicholas (Record production, 1900 –September 03, 1973), American clarinetist and saxophonist, would have turned 124 this year.
- Chester Zardis (Record production, 1900 –August 14, 1990), American bass and tuba player, would have turned 124 this year.
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