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)
Did you know (auto-generated) -
- ... 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?
- ... 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?
Born this day
- Birthdays in Music: May 28
- Tricky Lofton, (born Lawrence Lofton) American trombonist, turns 94.
- Gladys Knight, American singer with Gladys Knight and The Pips, turns 80.
- Billy Vera, (born William McCord) American actor and singer, turns 80.
- John Fogerty, American guitarist and singer-songwriter of Creedence Clearwater Revival fame, turns 79.
- Cathy Segal-Garcia, American jazz vocalist, turns 71.
- Janet Seidel, Australian jazz pianist and vocalist, turns 69.
- Eddie Parker, Brit flautist, turns 65.
- Roland Gift, British actor and singer with Fine Young Cannibals, turns 62.
- Kylie Minogue, Australian actress and dance pop singer, turns 56.
- Mark Feehily, Irish singer/songwriter from the pop group Westlife, turns 44.
- Patrick James Grossi, a.k.a. Active Child, American singer, songwriter and producer, turns 41.
- Claudio Roditi (Record production, 1946–January 17, 2020), Brazilian trumpeter, would have turned 78 this year.
- Bob Murphy (Record production, 1945–October 22, 2015), Canadian jazz pianist, would have turned 79 this year.
- Wojciech Karolak (Record production, 1939–June 23, 2021), Polish multi-instrumentalist, would have turned 85 this year.
- Arno Marsh (Record production, 1928 –July 12, 2019), American tenor saxophonist, would have turned 96 this year.
- Russ Freeman (Record production, 1926 –June 27, 2002), (born Russell Donald Freeman) American composer and pianist, would have turned 98 this year.
- Al Tinney (Record production, 1921 –December 11, 2002), (born Allen Tinney) American pianist, would have turned 103 this year.
- Papa John Creach (Record production, 1917 –February 22, 1994), (born John Henry Creach) American violinist and vocalist, would have turned 107 this year.
- Dave Barbour (Record production, 1912 –December 11, 1965), American arranger, bandleader, composer, and guitarist, would have turned 112 this year.
- Skeets Herfurt (Record production, 1911 –April 17, 1992), (born Arthur Herfurt) American saxophonist, would have turned 113 this year.
- Arthur "Traps" Trappier (Record production, 1910 –May 17, 1975), American drummer, would have turned 114 this year.
- Reginald Foresythe (Record production, 1907 –December 23, 1958), Brit composer and pianist, would have turned 117 this year.
- Arthur Herbert (1907 – ?), American drummer, would have turned 117.
- Tommy Ladnier (Record production, 1900 –June 04, 1939), American cornetist and trumpeter, would have turned 124 this year.
- Andy Kirk (musician) (Record production, 1898 –December 11, 1992), American bandleader and saxophonist, would have turned 126 this year.
- Lew Stone (Record production, 1898 –February 13, 1969), Brit arranger, bandleader, and pianist, would have turned 126 this year.
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