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MUBUTV: Insider Video Series Episode #16 Record Producer Paul Fox Pt.2
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Kitaro 喜多郎 - Caravansary
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Album : Tenjiku Released : 1983 Kitaro 喜多郎 - Caravansary Kitarō (喜多郎, born February 4, 1953) is a Japanese musician, composer, record producer, arranger, and...
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Music Producer Career Information : How to Become a Music Producer
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Becoming a music producer usually starts with recording music as a musician, patience and a taking full advantage of each opportunity. Find out about how to ...
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How to do FL Studio Vocal Dubstep Slicing Chopping with Slicex tutorial
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How to do FL Studio Female Vocal Dubstep Slicing with Slicex OK Here is a producer Video tutorial on How i did the Female Vocal Slicing and Arrangements in F...
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Wine, Women, Whiskey - Papa Lightfoot (w. Edgar Blanchard & The Gondoliers?)
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Also covered by The British Pub-Rock band Dr Feelgood here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pbf3DMut2c --- Recorded in New Orleans, perhaps with the Edgar B...
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Mỹ Tâm - Vì Em Quá Yêu Anh _ Crazy Love (The Making of)
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8TH STUDIO ALBUM [TÂM] ▷ NOW available on iTunes: http://smarturl.it/mytamvol8 ▷ Story version: http://youtu.be/2frb8Cjfhrs ▷ Dance version: http://youtu.be/...
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Robin Millar Record Producer - - Speech at Stow College event
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Justenjoy the music #1 | Taboo
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Take a look at the creative process of how music producer Justen Williams composes records. Justen Williams music producer/composer www.justenwilliamsmusic.c...
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Legendary Record Producer Phil Ramone Dies
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johnswackyworld met phil ramone way back in 1994.
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KassemG Gets WRECKED in Picture Show Original Film
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KassemG gets stranded in the desert in Wrecked, the PREMIERE Picture Show Original film brought to you by Tribeca and Maker Studios. From Aaron Moorhead and ...
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MUBUTV: Insider Video Series Episode #16 Record Producer Paul Fox Pt.2
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Paul Fox, a leading Record Producer discusses the role that a producer plays in the creative process of making a record Including how to select the right one...
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Robin Millar Record Producer Q&A; at Stow College
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Robin Millar Record Producer Q&A; at Stow College. Robin Millar is a record producer and musician, known variously as 'The Original Smooth Operator', 'The man...
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Interview with Rob Cavallo: record producer & Senior VP of A&R; for Reprise Records
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In this clip from www.artistshousemusic.org - Rob Cavallo is a record producer and Senior Vice President of A&R; for Reprise Records. He is best known for pro...
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Interview With Record Producer Youth - Extended Version
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Extended version of interview with record producer Youth (The Orb, Killing Joke, The Verve, Paul McCartney) who owns El Mirador residential recording studio ...
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MUBUTV: Insider Video Series Episode #15 Record Producer Paul Fox Pt.1
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Paul Fox, a leading Record Producer discusses the role that a producer plays in the creative process of making a record Including how to select the right one...
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Album : Tenjiku Released : 1983 Kitaro 喜多郎 - Caravansary Kitarō (喜多郎, born February 4, 1953) is a Japanese musician, composer, record producer, arranger, and...

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Ki­taro 喜多郎 - Car­a­vansary
Album : Ten­jiku Re­leased : 1983 Ki­taro 喜多郎 - Car­a­vansary Kitarō (喜多郎, born Febru­ary 4, 195...
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Music Pro­duc­er Ca­reer In­for­ma­tion : How to Be­come a Music Pro­duc­er
Be­com­ing a music pro­duc­er usu­al­ly starts with record­ing music as a mu­si­cian, pa­tience and ...
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How to do FL Stu­dio Fe­male Vocal Dub­step Slic­ing with Slicex OK Here is a pro­duc­er Video t...
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Wine, Women, Whiskey - Papa Light­foot (w. Edgar Blan­chard & The Gon­do­liers?)
Also cov­ered by The British Pub-Rock band Dr Feel­go­od here : http://​www.​youtube.​com/​watch?...​
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Mỹ Tâm - Vì Em Quá Yêu Anh _ Crazy Love (The Mak­ing of)
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Robin Mil­lar Record Pro­duc­er - - Speech at Stow Col­lege event
Robin Mil­lar Record Pro­duc­er - - Speech at Stow Col­lege event....
pub­lished: 11 Mar 2013
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Justen­joy the music #1 | Taboo
Take a look at the cre­ative pro­cess of how music pro­duc­er Justen Williams com­pos­es records...
pub­lished: 24 Apr 2013
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Leg­endary Record Pro­duc­er Phil Ra­mone Dies
john­swack­y­world met phil ra­mone way back in 1994....
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KassemG Gets WRECKED in Pic­ture Show Orig­i­nal Film
KassemG gets strand­ed in the desert in Wrecked, the PRE­MIERE Pic­ture Show Orig­i­nal film br...
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MUBUTV: In­sid­er Video Se­ries Episode #16 Record Pro­duc­er Paul Fox Pt.2
Paul Fox, a lead­ing Record Pro­duc­er dis­cuss­es the role that a pro­duc­er plays in the creati...
pub­lished: 20 Mar 2013
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Robin Mil­lar Record Pro­duc­er Q&A; at Stow Col­lege
Robin Mil­lar Record Pro­duc­er Q&A; at Stow Col­lege. Robin Mil­lar is a record pro­duc­er and mu...
pub­lished: 06 Mar 2013
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In­ter­view with Rob Cav­al­lo: record pro­duc­er & Se­nior VP of A&R; for Reprise Records
In this clip from www.​artistshousemusic.​org - Rob Cav­al­lo is a record pro­duc­er and Se­nior ...
pub­lished: 20 Aug 2012
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In­ter­view With Record Pro­duc­er Youth - Ex­tend­ed Ver­sion
Ex­tend­ed ver­sion of in­ter­view with record pro­duc­er Youth (The Orb, Killing Joke, The Verve...
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MUBUTV: In­sid­er Video Se­ries Episode #15 Record Pro­duc­er Paul Fox Pt.1
Paul Fox, a lead­ing Record Pro­duc­er dis­cuss­es the role that a pro­duc­er plays in the creati...
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Tom Gra­ham: a record pro­duc­er and en­gi­neer based in Toron­to on World Music
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Rescue workers use clothes to bring down survivors and bodies after an eight-story building housing several garment factories collapsed in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Wednesday, April 24, 2013.
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24 Apr 2013
Dhaka. At least 100 people were killed and over 600 injured Wednesday when an eight-storeyed building crumbled on the outskirts of capital Dhaka. Rescued workers complained they were forced to get back to work though the building was evacuated just a day earlier after cracks appeared. Those trapped under the rubble screamed for help as rescuers scrambled to get them out. The building, "Rana Plaza", collapsed around 8.45 am ... IANS ... ....(size: 2.7Kb)
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Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey, left, and Chinese counterpart Gen. Fang Fenghui salute during a welcoming ceremony at the Bayi Building in Beijing
The New York Times
24 Apr 2013
BEIJING — After three days of talks here, America’s top military officer said Wednesday that he believed China wanted to limit the nuclear ambitions of North Korea but that it remained unclear how China would work toward that goal. Multimedia. Multimedia Feature. North Korea’s Nuclear Threats, in Focus. Multimedia Feature. Timeline of North Korea’s Nuclear Program. Graphic. Territorial Disputes Involving Japan. Related ... Martin E ... ....(size: 6.9Kb)
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Police keep watch near the scene where Boston Marathon bomb suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was captured last Friday, hiding in a backyard boat. Tsarnaev, 19, was charged on Monday with carrying out the bombing with his older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who died last week in a gunbattle.
Boston Herald
25 Apr 2013
The CIA pushed to have the suspected mastermind of the marathon bombings on a terror watch list 18 months before the deadly blasts rocked Boylston Street, according to multiple reports yesterday that raised serious questions about how closely Tamerlan Tsarnaev was probed before the attack ... The Associated Press reported that the two agencies received nearly identical information, which came to the CIA in September 2011 ... More On. ... CIA ... ....(size: 3.7Kb)



Yahoo Music
25 Apr 2013
In 1971, Parliament-Funkadelic mastermind George Clinton produced the United Soul songs "I Miss My Baby" and "Baby I Owe You Something Good," and in 1972 he invited both Mosson and Shider (who died in 2010) to join P-Funk ... "[Boogie] was an all-around musician," Shider’s brother and record producer Tim Shider told Dailyrecord.com. "He played a lot of stuff on the Parliament-Funkadelic records....(size: 2.4Kb)
Chicago Sun-Times
25 Apr 2013
Marr has written, produced and performed with an impressive array of artists — the Pretenders, Kirsty MacColl, Pet Shop Boys, Billy Bragg, Talking Heads, Bryan Ferry, Paul McCartney, Oasis — and joined other bands such as The The, Electronic (his duo with New Order’s Bernard Sumner), Modest Mouse and most recently, the Cribs ... I’m more passionate about making records ... making records and producing....(size: 4.1Kb)
The New York Times
25 Apr 2013
IN the basement of a Chelsea office building this week, workmen wired a recording studio so new it still smelled of freshly cut wood ... top, from left, the musician and composer Brian Eno, the Chic guitarist and veteran record producer Nile Rodgers; above, from left, the singer-songwriter Erykah Badu and the Japanese musician Ryuichi Sakamoto....(size: 7.7Kb)
Newsday
25 Apr 2013
Those who lined up early were looking for a chance to sing in front of record producers. You need the latest version of the Adobe Flash Player to view this video content. advertisement . advertise on News 12. Be the first to rate. 0 ... PrevNext ... ....(size: 1.4Kb)
The Daily Tribune
25 Apr 2013
So what can people expect from Jay Sean in 2013? “I’ll write a follow-up song called 2013 ... Again, man ... Takes me so long ... So I was like, ‘I need to set up an empire.’ I wanna have things going on,” reveals Jay Sean who says he has recently put up his own entertainment company called Camouflage Entertainment, adding up that he looks up to Jay Z who has multi-hypenated himself as a rapper, record producer and just recently as sports agent....(size: 6.9Kb)
The Quietus
25 Apr 2013
Click here to read Electro Chaabi In Cairo Part I. A High Speed Ballet. Click here to read Electro Chaabi In Cairo Part II ... A few weeks ago I was having lunch with Andy Votel of Finders Keepers, Jane Weaver of Bird Records and their kids ... Despite telling him we’re on our way to a meeting with a musician and record producer and that we’re definitely not here because of the revolution, we suddenly find ourselves in Tahrir Square ... She says....(size: 14.9Kb)
Huffington Post
25 Apr 2013
In 1993, "Hollywood Madam" Heidi Fleiss was busted for running a high-class prostitution ring that catered to an elite but undisclosed clientele ... In this clip from "Oprah ... "We bought it from a 200-year-old pimp," Heidi jokes in the clip ... Phil Spector Legendary record producer Phil Spector looks justifiably worried when arrested over the death of actress Lana Clarkson in 2003 - he was later convicted of her murder and is still in jail ... ....(size: 9.3Kb)
Syracuse
24 Apr 2013
On April 18, Germany broke world records by producing more electrical energy using solar and wind than by fossil fuels. This is a great follow-up to the April 15 record of producing 22.68 gigawatts of electrical power by solar alone! For the layman, ......(size: 1.3Kb)
The Hollywood Reporter
24 Apr 2013
He'll join his wife, Kimberly Williams-Paisley -- who stars as Rayna's soon-to-be ex-husband Teddy's (Eric Close) mistress -- on the music-themed series from exec producer Callie Khouri. Paisley's appearance marks the first high-profile singer-songwriter to guest star on the series in a musical capacity (Will.i.am had a non-performing arc as a record producer)....(size: 2.2Kb)
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24 Apr 2013
CELEBS CHIP IN ... GEORGE TOWN ... American hip-hop recording artiste and record producer Swizz Beatz then set the stage on fire with Grammy-winner Ludacris, followed by Redfoo of LMFAO wrapping up the night ... Swizz beats American hip-hop recording artiste Swizz Beatz with the children at the American Grammy Award Artist with orphans and poor children of the poor carnival at Gurney Plaza here recently ... 1 / 3. ....(size: 2.0Kb)
Music News
24 Apr 2013
Courteeners hit song 'Not Nineteen Forever' was last night named Manchester United's official song to celebrate their 20th league victory title, after last night's Old Trafford win ... July can't come quick enough ... The band recorded and produced 'ANNA' in Manchester at 80 Hertz Studios with producer Joe Cross (Hurts) and in December, performed new tracks from the album at a sold out homecoming show at the 17,000 capacity Manchester Arena....(size: 2.7Kb)
The Independent
24 Apr 2013
Cowell and Demi Lovato will be returning, but Britney Spears and record producer Antonio "L.A." Reid ......(size: 0.6Kb)
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24 Apr 2013
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Record producer (music producer)
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Occupation
Names Record Producer
Activity sectors Music Industry
Music
Description
Competencies Instrumental Skills, Keyboard Knowledge

A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording (i.e. "production") of an artist's music. A producer has many roles that may include, but are not limited to, gathering ideas for the project, selecting songs and/or musicians, coaching the artist and musicians in the studio, controlling the recording sessions, and supervising the entire process through mixing and mastering. Producers also often take on a wider entrepreneurial role, with responsibility for the budget, schedules, and negotiations.

Today, the recording industry has two kinds of producers: executive producer and music producer; they have different roles. While an executive producer oversees a project's finances, a music producer oversees the creation of the music.

A music producer can, in some cases, be compared to a film director, with noted practitioner Phil Ek himself describing his role as "the person who creatively guides or directs the process of making a record, like a director would a movie. The engineer would be more the cameraman of the movie."[1] The music producer's job is to create, shape, and mold a piece of music. The scope of responsibility may be one or two songs or an artist's entire album – in which case the producer will typically develop an overall vision for the album and how the various songs may interrelate.

In the US, before the rise of the record producer, someone from A&R would oversee the recording session(s), assuming responsibility for creative decisions relating to the recording.

With today's relatively easy access to technology, an alternative to the record producer just mentioned, is the so called 'bedroom producer'. With today's technological advances, it is very easy for a producer to achieve high quality tracks without the use of a single instrument; that happens in urban music (like hip hop, rap, etc). Many established artists take this approach.

In most cases the music producer is also a competent arranger, composer, musician or songwriter who can bring fresh ideas to a project. As well as making any songwriting and arrangement adjustments, the producer is also in charge of the creative mix. He or she will liaise with the sound engineer who concentrates on the technical aspects of recording, whereas the music producer keeps an eye on the overall project's marketability.

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History[link]

Early record producers[link]

During the 1890s, Fred Gaisberg ran the first recording studio and provided the closest approximation of production by guiding an opera singer closer or further away from a gramophone's horn to match the dynamics in the score. (Citation: Gronow and Saunio 1998, p. 8; Moorefield 2005, p. 1).

However in the first part of the 20th century the record producer's role was similar to the role of a film producer in that the record producer organized and supervised recording sessions, paid technicians, musicians and arrangers, and sometimes chose material for the artist. In the mid-1950s a new category emerged, that of the independent record producer. Among the most famous early independent producers are the famed songwriting-production duo Leiber & Stoller, "Wall of Sound" creator Phil Spector and British studio pioneer Joe Meek.

Magnetic tape enabled the establishment of independent recording studios in major recording centres such as London, Los Angeles and New York. Unlike the old record company studios, which were effectively a "closed shop", these new studios could be hired by the hour by anyone who could afford to do so.

The biggest and best commercial studios were typically established and operated by leading recording engineers. They were carefully constructed to create optimum recording conditions, and were equipped with the latest and best recording equipment and top-quality microphones, as well as electronic amplification gear and musical instruments.

Top-line studios such as Olympic Studios in London, Fine Recording in New York City, United Western Recorders, and Musart in Los Angeles quickly became among the most sought-after recording facilities in the world, and both these studios became veritable "hit factories" that produced many of the most successful pop recordings of the latter 20th century.

Evolution of the role of the producer[link]

Prior to the 1950s, the various stages of the recording and marketing process had been carried out by different professionals within the industry – A&R managers found potential new artists and signed them to their labels; professional songwriters created new material; publishing agents sold these songs to the A&R people; staff engineers carried out the task of making the recordings in company-owned studios.

Freed from this traditional system by the advent of independent commercial studios, the new generation of entrepreneurial producers – many of whom were former record company employees themselves – were able to create and occupy a new stratum in the industry, taking on a more direct and complex role in the musical process. This development in music was mirrored in the TV industry by the concurrent development of videotape recording and the consequent emergence of independent TV production companies like Desilu.

The new generation of independent producers began forming their own record production companies, and in many cases they also established their own recording labels, signing deals that enabled the recordings they produced to be manufactured and distributed by a major record company. This usually took the form of a lease deal, in which the production company leased the usage rights to the original recording to a major label, who would press, distribute and promote the recording as their own, in return for a percentage of any profit; the ownership of the master recordings typically reverted to the producer after the deal expired.

Producers would now typically carry out most or all of the various production tasks themselves, including selecting and arranging songs, overseeing sessions (and sometimes also engineering the recordings) and even writing the material[2], although it became a common practice for producers to claim a writing credit even if they did not actually contribute to the song.

Independent music production companies rapidly gained a significant foothold in popular music and soon became the main intermediary between artist and record label, discovering and signing new artists to production contracts, producing the recordings and then licensing the finished product to record labels for pressing, promotion and sale. (This was a novel innovation in the popular music field, although a broadly similar system had long been in place in many countries for the production of content for broadcast radio.) The classic example of this transition is renowned British producer George Martin, who worked as a staff producer and A&R manager at EMI for many years, before branching out on his own and becoming a highly successful independent producer with his AIR (Associated Independent Recordings) production company and studios.

As a result of these changes, record producers began to exert a strong influence, not only on individual careers, but on the course of popular music. A key example of this is Phil Spector, who defined the gap between early rock and roll and the Beatles (1959–1964). Although many of Spector's s productions were credited to acts such as The Ronettes, The Crystals, the Righteous Brothers, the Paris Sisters and Bob B. Soxx & the Blue Jeans, in reality they were created using a crack team of top-rank Los Angeles session players (now known as "The Wrecking Crew") and often featured an interchangeable lineup of lead singers, including Ronnie Spector and Darlene Love. The prime example of Spector's modus operandi is the record widely regarded as his masterpiece, "River Deep, Mountain High". It is credited to "Ike & Tina Turner", but it is now well-known that Ike Turner was paid $20,000 to stay away from the sessions; the backing track was in fact performed by the Wrecking Crew, and the backing vocals were provided by a chorus of 21 singers, comprised of Ikettes Janice Singleton and Diane Rutherford and most of the female singers on Spector's roster, including Ronnie Spector, Darlene Love and Cher. Spector's Wall of Sound production technique also persisted after that time with his select recordings of the Beatles, the Ramones, Leonard Cohen, George Harrison, Dion and Ike and Tina Turner.

Some producers also became de facto recording artists, creating records themselves or with anonymous studio musicians and releasing them under a pseudonym. In the USA, some of the earliest examples in popular music were the novelty records released under the name Alvin & The Chipmunks, which became hits in many countries in the mid-1950s. These records, written, performed and produced by entertainer David Seville, relied on the simple gimmick of recording an instrumental track, then overdubbing the vocals while the the tape ran at half-speed. When played back at regular speed, the music would sound normal, and the voices would remain synchronised with the music, but the pitch and timbre of the voices would be dramatically shifted up, creating the instantly recognisable, chirpy "helium" effect. In the UK in the early 60s, Joe Meek was the first British pop producer to make records with studio-created groups, and he had major hits with singles like "Telstar" and Heinz's "Just Like Eddy".

Other examples of this phenomenon include the records by fictional groups the Archies and Josie & the Pussycats, produced by Don Kirshner and Danny Jansen respectively, who were contracted by TV production companies to produce these records to promote the animated children's TV series of the same name. Similarly, Jeff Barry and Andy Kim recorded as the Archies. The same producer-as-artist phenomenon can be found with many modern-day pop-oriented street- and electronic-music artists. In later years this became a prominent and often successful sideline for major producers, as evidenced by the string of albums by the studio group The Alan Parsons Project (created by former EMI/Abbey Road staff engineer Alan Parsons) and the successful musical adaptation of H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds, devised and produced by former David Essex producer Jeff Wayne.

Another change that occurred for the role of producers occurred progressively over the 50’s and 60’s. The development of multitrack recording and new technology such as electric guitars, amplifiers, and better microphones led to a fundamental change in the way recordings were made. The goal of recording no longer was simply accurately capturing and documenting live performance. Instead producers could manipulate sounds to an unprecedented degree and producers like Spector and Martin were soon creating recordings that were, in practical terms, almost impossible to realise in live performance. Producers became creative figures in the studio and were no longer reserved to the role of functional engineer. Examples of such engineers includes George Martin, Joe Meek, Teo Macero, Phil Spector, Brian Wilson, and Biddu. These producers became known as creative producers who turned the studio into a creative space.

Another notable related phenomenon in the 1960s was the emergence of the performer-producer. As pop acts like The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Beach Boys and The Kinks rapidly gained expertise in studio recording techniques, the leaders of many of these groups eventually took over as producers of their own work. In some cases this was not credited at the time - many recordings by acts such as The Rolling Stones, The Small Faces, Donovan, The Kinks and The Who are credited to their various producers of the time, Andrew Loog Oldham. Mickie Most or Shel Talmy, but many of these performers have since asserted that many of their recordings in this period were (in practial terms) either self-produced - e.g. The Rolling Stones' Decca recordings - or were collaborations between the group and their recording engineer - e.g. The Small Faces' Immediate recordings, which were made with Olympic Studios engineer Glyn Johns.

Similarly, although The Beatles' productions were credited to George Martin throughout their recording career, many sources now attest that Lennon and McCartney in particular had an increasing influence on the production process as the group's career progressed,and especially after the band retired from touring in 1966. The Beach Boys are probably the best example of this trend - within two years of the band's commercial breakthrough, group leader Brian Wilson had taken over from his father Murry, and he was sole producer of all their recordings between 1963 and 1967. Alongside The Beatles and Martin, Wilson also pioneereed many production innovations - by 1964 he had developed Spector's techniques to a new level of sophistication, using multiple studios and multiple "takes" of instrumental and vocal components to capture the best possible combinations of sound and performance, and then using tape editing extensively to assemble a perfect composite performance from these elements.

Equipment and technology[link]

Mixing Console

There are numerous different technologies utilized by the producer. In modern day recordings, recording and mixing tasks are centralized within computers. However, there is also the main mixer, outboard effects gear, MIDI controllers, and the recording device itself.

See also[link]

References[link]

Further reading[link]

External links[link]

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Papa Lightfoot
Birth name Alexander Lightfoot
Also known as Papa George Lightfoot
Born (1924-03-02)March 2, 1924
Origin Natchez, Mississippi, United States
Died November 28, 1971(1971-11-28) (aged 47)
Genres Blues, delta blues
Instruments Vocals, harmonica

Papa Lightfoot, also known as Papa George Lightfoot (March 2, 1924 – November 28, 1971), born Alexander Lightfoot, was an American blues singer and harmonica player.

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Biography[link]

Born in Natchez, Mississippi, Lightfoot recorded several sessions in his late twenties – for Peacock Records in 1949 (which were never issued), Sultan Records in 1950, Aladdin Records in 1952, and Imperial Records in 1954. After final singles for Savoy Records in 1955 and Excello Records in 1956, Lightfoot quit recording, still an obscure Southern blues harmonica player.

As interest grew in rural Delta blues in the 1960s, Lightfoot's name became more well-known, and in 1969 record producer Steve LaVere went to Lightfoot's home town of Natchez, and asked him to record again. The result was the album Natchez Trace, released on Vault Records in 1969, which brought Lightfoot briefly to the forefront of the blues revival. Rural Blues Vol. 2 followed on Liberty Records later that same year.

However, his comeback was cut short by his death in late 1971 of respiratory failure.

The recordings were reissued in 1995 as Goin' Back to the Natchez Trace, with six additional tracks and recorded monologue.[1]

See also[link]

References[link]

  1. ^ Bognadanov et al., p. 341

Sources[link]

  • Papa Lightfoot at Allmusic.com
  • All music guide to the blues: the definitive guide to the blues, by Vladimir Bogdanov, Chris Woodstra, Stephen Thomas Erlewine, p. 341 (page available in Google books)

External links[link]

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Robin Millar
Birth name Robin John Christian Millar
Born (1951-12-18) 18 December 1951 (age 60)
Origin Hyde Park Corner, Westminster, England
Genres Pop, R&B, Rock, Latin, Indie, Punk
Occupations Record producer, arranger, composer, Musician, DJ, Academic, Public Speakers
Instruments keyboards guitar bass percussion drums
Years active 1975–present
Associated acts Sade, Fine Young Cannibals, Big Country, Everything But The Girl, Randy Crawford, Patricia Kaas

Robin Millar is a record producer and musician, known variously as ‘The Original Smooth Operator’, ‘The man behind Sade’, and ‘Golden Ears’ [Boy George]. Born in London to an irish father and West Indian mother he has conquered blindness to become one of the world’s most successful ever record producers with over 150 gold, silver and platinum discs and 55 million record sales to his credit. His 1984 production of ‘Diamond Life’ the debut album by Sade was named one of the best ten albums of the last 30 years at the 2011 Brit Awards.

He has worked as a fundraiser for vulnerable people for 30 years and in March 2012 Millar underwent a 12 hour operation to install a bionic retina in his right eye to help research into future treatment for blindness.

He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2010 Birthday Honours.[1]

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Early life[link]

Millar was born with retinitis pigmentosa at St George’s Hospital, which is now The Lanesborough Hotel, Hyde Park Corner.[2] Despite poor vision he attended attended mainstream state school Enfield Grammar School from 1963–70 and then read law at Cambridge University from 1970-73.[2]

Musical career[link]

After gaining his law degree,[3] Millar moved into the music industry initially as a guitarist and artist, putting out records with Atlantic and WEA and working with ex-Velvet Underground singer Nico. He found his niche as a record producer in the early 1980s when he started Power Plant Studios. Power Plant became the most fashionable haunt of the London 1980s music scene. After working with post punk band Weekend in 1982, his breakthrough came in 1984 with seven consecutive Top 10 albums; including Eden by Everything but the Girl, Working Nights by Working Week, and especially the multi-platinum selling Diamond Life by Sade.

Later he produced albums by Fine Young Cannibals (Fine Young Cannibals), Colin Hay (Looking for Jack), Big Country (The Seer), Patricia Kaas (Je te dis vous), Kane Gang, Bhundu Boys and Randy Crawford amongst others. Millar arranged the music for the film, And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...[4] Millar's song "Rich and Poor", co-composed with Colin Vearncombe, was recorded by Randy Crawford on her 1989 album, Rich and Poor.[5] His 2003 solo album, Kiss and Tell was released by the Nujaz record label.[6]

Millar has worked as producer, arranger, musician, songwriter and mixer, with Sting, Eric Clapton, John Mayall, Chrissie Hynde, Alison Moyet, Brand New Heavies, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Willard White, Mick Hucknell, Elvis Costello, Peter Gabriel, Françoise Hardy, Catherine Deneuve and Malcolm McLaren. His productions have sold over 55 million copies worldwide and have been awarded 150 platinum, gold and silver awards.[citation needed] They have won every major music award including Grammy and Brit Awards.[citation needed]

He is also a champion for vulnerable people and was awarded the 2002 Windrush Award for this work. He has made campaigning records and produced fund-raising concerts as Patron for UNICEF, UNHCR, Oxfam, Nimibian Freedom Fighters, Chilean Solidarity and Oxfam. He is a long-time trustee of The Vietnamese Boat Peoples' Appeal.[citation needed]

Millar trained as a recording engineer, classical and jazz musician and arranger, and has trained dozens of top engineers and producers, including Jim Abbiss the producer of Arctic Monkeys & Adele. He also works as a mentor and inspirational guide to FTSE business leaders and people in the public eye, with famous clients from the world of business, music and politics.[citation needed]

In 2005, he produced MP4's version of The Beatles', "Can't Buy Me Love".[7]

Millar is a patron of The Music Producers Guild, which he helped found in 1987.

Millar is currently executive producer of a major worldwide series of concerts to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of Edith Piaf, with shows planned for Carnegie Hall, New York, The Royal Albert Hall London and major venues in France, Germany, Russia, Europe and the Far East. He has been collaborating with Australian singer/songwriter Eran James whom he met through Elton John in 2010

Production credits[link]

In addition to those listed above, Millar's work as a record producer includes credits on the following:-

References[link]

External links[link]

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Phil Ramone, June 2009

Phil Ramone (born 1941) is a South-African violinist, composer, recording engineer, and record producer.[1]

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Biography[link]

As a young child in South Africa, Ramone was a musical prodigy, beginning to play the violin at age three and performing for Queen Elizabeth II at age ten. In the late 1940s he trained as a classical violinist at The Juilliard School, where one of his classmates was Phil Woods.

A&R Recording[link]

In 1959, he established an independent recording studio A&R Recording (the initials were derived from the last initials of Ramone and his then-business partner Jack Arnold). There he quickly gained a reputation as a sound engineer and music producer, in particular for his use of innovative technology. Among those whose music he has produced are Clay Aiken, Burt Bacharach, Laura Branigan, Ray Charles, Karen Carpenter, Chicago, Peter Cincotti, Natalie Cole, Bob Dylan, Sheena Easton, Melissa Errico, Gloria Estefan, Aretha Franklin, Billy Joel, Elton John, Quincy Jones, Patricia Kaas, B. B. King, Julian Lennon, Madonna, Barry Manilow, Richard Marx, Paul McCartney, George Michael, Liza Minnelli, Anne Murray, Olivia Newton-John, Sinéad O'Connor, Fito Páez, Luciano Pavarotti, Peter Paul and Mary, Andre Previn, Diane Schuur, Carly Simon, Paul Simon, Frank Sinatra, Rod Stewart, James Taylor, The Guess Who, and Dionne Warwick. He is also credited with recording Marilyn Monroe's rendition of "Happy Birthday to You" to President John F. Kennedy [1].also Phoebe Snow

The technical innovations he introduced include optical surround sound for movies, and digital recording techniques. His studio was the first to release music commercially on compact disc; Billy Joel's 52nd Street was the first album to be broadly released on the medium.

His book, Making Records: The Scenes Behind the Music, written with Chuck Granata, was released on October 9, 2007.

Also in October 2007, Ramone produced a limited engagement performance of Richard Vetere's Be My Love: The Mario Lanza Story. The play was directed by Charles Messina and co-produced by Sonny Grosso. It premiered at The Tilles Center in Greenvale, NY.[2]

On July 8, 2008 Columbia records released The Stranger 30th Anniversary, which features interviews with Ramone. This box set includes a remastered version of the 1977 Billy Joel album, The Stranger by Ramone.

In the summer of 2009, Ramone produced Gershwin Across America, a tribute album to the music of George and Ira Gershwin. The album features Jewel, Jason Mraz, Darius Rucker, and Paul Simon among others.

In 2011 Phil Ramone is working with George Michael, during his 2011 Symphonica Tour.

Awards[link]

Ramone has been nominated for 33 Grammy awards, winning 14 awards and a technical Grammy for a lifetime of innovative contributions to the recording industry.

He also won an Emmy Award in 1973 as sound mixer for "Duke Ellington...We Love You Madly", a tribute to Duke Ellington broadcast on CBS.

Ramone has been awarded honorary degrees by Five Towns College, Berklee College of Music, and Skidmore College. He is also on the Berklee's Board of Trustees.

He was awarded a Fellowship by the Audio Engineering Society in 2007.

See also[link]

  • Gene Lees, Meet Me at Jim & Andy's: Jazz Musicians and Their World, Oxford University Press (November 22, 1990) — Jim and Andy's was a beloved bar/diner downstairs from one of the A&R Studios (next to Manny's on 48th) and has many references to Phil Ramone. The bar had a direct line from A&R Studios and when the studio had a "no-show," Phil Ramone would use the line to inquire whether a substitute musician was available.

References[link]

  1. ^ "Biography: Phil Ramone", Phil Ramone website
  2. ^ "Richard Vetere Collection". Stony Brook University Special Collections & University Archives. http://www.stonybrook.edu/libspecial/collections/manuscripts/vetere.shtml. 

Further reading[link]

External links[link]

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Rob Cavallo at the Yahoo! Yodel Studio on October 13, 2009

Rob Cavallo is a record producer and A&R, most famous for signing and producing Green Day[1]. He is currently Chairman of Warner Bros. Records.[2]

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History[link]

Cavallo, born in Washington, D.C., moved to Los Angeles, California when he was about ten years old. As a teenager, he played in local bands, and after graduating from high school he began working as a recording engineer.[3] Cavallo eventually graduated from the University of Southern California where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Composition, Communications and Sociology in 1985.[4] In the mid– to late 1980s, Cavallo worked with the so–called "hair metal" bands around Hollywood as a record producer. This continued into the 1990s, but when the "hair metal" scene died out, he began seeking out alternative rock bands to work with.

Cavallo currently lives in Hidden Hills, California with his wife Kim and children.

Projects[link]

Cavallo was an in–house producer with the band Green Day. He has co–produced every album from their multi–platinum success Dookie to American Idiot. Cavallo has also produced four studio albums for the Goo Goo Dolls, 1998's Dizzy Up the Girl, 2002's Gutterflower, 2006's Let Love In, and 2010's, Something for the Rest of Us.

Cavallo has also produced records for Jawbreaker, Alanis Morissette, Sixpence None the Richer, Less Than Jake, Fleetwood Mac, Jewel, My Chemical Romance, Kid Rock, Avril Lavigne, Paramore, David Cook, Shinedown, Dave Matthews Band, Adam Lambert, Switchfoot, and Meat Loaf, among others.

Partial discography[link]

Goo Goo Dolls[link]

Green Day[link]

My Chemical Romance[link]

Avril Lavigne[link]

Other projects[link]

Other work[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

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