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 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 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 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 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: June 12
- Kent Carter, American cellist and composer, turns 85.
- Bun E. Carlos, drummer of Cheap Trick fame, turns 73.
- Rocky Burnette, rock and roll singer, turns 71.
- Jesper Lundgaard, Danish bass player, turns 70.
- Geri Allen, American pianist, turns 67.
- Meredith Brooks, American singer-songwriter, turns 66.
- [[
John Linnell]], of They Might Be Giants, turns 65.
- [[
Michael Hausman]], drummer of 'Til Tuesday fame, turns 64.
- Drew "Grandmaster Dee" Carter, of Whodini, turns 62.
- Kenny Wayne Shepherd, American guitarist, singer, and songwriter, turns 47.
- Robyn, Swedish electropop singer, turns 45.
- Brad Delp (Record production, 1951 –March 09, 2007), American vocalist with Boston, would have turned 73 this year.
- John Kenneth Wetton (1949–2017), British rock bassist, singer, songwritter, would have turned 75.
- Chick Corea (Record production, 1941 –February 09, 2021), American composer and jazz pianist, would have turned 83 this year.
- Vic Damone (Record production, 1928 –February 11, 2018), (born Vito Rocco Farinola) American pop singer, would have turned 96 this year.
- Al Fairweather (1927 – 1993), Scottish bandleader and trumpeter, would have turned 97.
- Zeke Zarchy (Record production, 1915 –April 12, 20090), American trumpeter, would have turned 109 this year.
- Eddie Williams (Record production, 1915 –February 18, 1995), American bass player, would have turned 109 this year.
- Gene Hall (Record production, 1913 –March 04, 1993), (born Morris Eugene Hall) American reedist, would have turned 111 this year.
- Emmett Hardy (Record production, 1903 –June 16, 1925), American cornetist, would have turned 121 this year.
- Gene Kardos (Record production, 1899 –August , 1980), American bandleader, would have turned 125 this year.
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