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    influence on music recording

    • Thomas Edison
      In music recording: The role of the producer

      Although the record producer at times became an equal partner with the musicians in creating the recorded performance of classical music, in the popular field, he or she was frequently in total command. Here, in fact, the sounds produced by the musicians may simply be the raw…

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    rock music

    • the Rolling Stones
      In rock: A Black and white hybrid

      For the new generation of record producer, whether Spector, the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson, or Motown’s Smokey Robinson and the team of Holland-Dozier-Holland, the commercial challenge—to make a record that would be heard through all the other noises in teenage lives—was also an artistic challenge. Even in this most commercial…

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