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Single (music)
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In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats, in most cases, a single is a song that is released separately from an album, although it usually also appears on an album. Typically, these are the songs from albums that are released separately for promotional uses such as digital download or commercial radio airplay and are expected to be the most popular, in other cases a recording released as a single may not appear on an album. As digital downloading and audio streaming have become prevalent, it is often possible for every track on an album to also be available separately. Nevertheless, the concept of a single for an album has been retained as an identification of a heavily promoted or more popular song within an album collection. Despite being referred to as a single, singles can include up to as many as three tracks on them. The biggest digital music distributor, iTunes, accepts as many as three tracks less than ten minutes each as a single, as well as popular music player Spotify also following in this trend. Any more than three tracks on a release or longer than thirty minutes in total running time is either an Extended Play or if over six tracks long. The basic specifications of the single were made in the late 19th century. Gramophone discs were manufactured with a range of speeds and in several sizes. By about 1910, however, the 10-inch,78 rpm shellac disc had become the most commonly used format, the inherent technical limitations of the gramophone disc defined the standard format for commercial recordings in the early 20th century.26 rpm. With these factors applied to the 10-inch format, songwriters and performers increasingly tailored their output to fit the new medium, the breakthrough came with Bob Dylans Like a Rolling Stone. Singles have been issued in various formats, including 7-inch, 10-inch, other, less common, formats include singles on digital compact cassette, DVD, and LD, as well as many non-standard sizes of vinyl disc. Some artist release singles on records, a more common in musical subcultures. The most common form of the single is the 45 or 7-inch. The names are derived from its speed,45 rpm. The 7-inch 45 rpm record was released 31 March 1949 by RCA Victor as a smaller, more durable, the first 45 rpm records were monaural, with recordings on both sides of the disc. As stereo recordings became popular in the 1960s, almost all 45 rpm records were produced in stereo by the early 1970s
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Plain White T's
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Plain White Ts is an American rock band from Lombard, Illinois, formed in 1997 by high school friends Tom Higgenson, Dave Tirio, and Ken Fletcher. They were joined a short time later by Steve Mast, the group had a mostly underground following in Chicago basements, clubs and bars in its early years. The Plain White Ts was formed in Lombard in early 1997, the group began as a trio, with Higgenson as singer and guitarist, Fletcher on bass guitar and Tirio on drums. The group played mostly local shows in Chicagos suburbs, eventually having gigs at the Metro in Chicagos Wrigleyville neighborhood. As the band began to establish itself in the scene, a fourth member was recruited, Steve Mast. Higgenson broke several vertebrae in a car crash in 1999 while driving the bands van and he was in a back brace for three months and had to learn to walk again. Higgenson changed his song-writing process, choosing songs that were meaningful to him. In 2000, the band recorded its first album, titled Come on Over, in 2002, the band self-financed the recording of Stop, a full-length album that attracted the attention of Fearless Records. While the band toured in support for the album, both Fletcher and Mast left and were replaced by Tim Lopez and Mike Retondo, shortly after in 2003, Tirio decided to switch from drumming to rhythm guitar and a new drummer named DeMar Hamilton was added to the line-up. The 2005 release, All That We Needed, was the first studio album from the reformed line-up, Hey There Delilah was first released on the bands third album, All That We Needed, in 2005. The group recorded Every Second Counts that year, on which Hey There Delilah was added in order to allow it a chance on mainstream radio, the band signed with Hollywood Records, which released Every Second Counts on September 12,2006. That same year, Hey There Delilah reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for two weeks, the song was written for the track star Delilah DiCrescenzo, whom Higgenson had met in 2002. The song received two Grammy nominations, and Every Second Counts was certified gold, in early 2006, the band teamed up with Motion City Soundtrack for a winter/spring tour. In 2008, the released the album Big Bad World. The album had two hit singles,1,2,3,4 and Natural Disaster, both were on the American Top 40 at numbers 1 and 2 for three consecutive weeks. By late 2008, the band had joined the Rock Band Live tour with Panic. at the Disco, Dashboard Confessional, later that year, the band played at the Give It a Name festival in the UK. In 2007, the performed the single Our Time Now on an episode of the Nickelodeon television series. Our Time Now was also the song of the ABC Family dramedy series
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Big Bad World
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Big Bad World is the fifth studio album by American rock band Plain White Ts. It was released on September 23,2008 by Hollywood Records, the creation of this album was a follow up album to Every Second Counts in hopes of breaking free from being the Hey There Delilah Band. To promote the album, the Plain White Ts launched a few webisodes, the majority of the album was written while on the road, in planes, in hotels, and on buses. The producer of album, Johnny K and mixer Andy Wallace approached the recordings as if it were an old recording. Typically, a studio would layer the guitars, by recording everyone separately. Instead, Tom Higgenson revealed his ultimate goal, that he would rather the band back onto the beetles to bring that back- the real songs. Both producers decided to let the ambiance of the room fill out the rather than layer the performances. To produce this kind of sound, the album was recorded in one room with the P. A, monitors, monitor wedges, and no headphones. They even decided to use live recordings, rather than fiddling with the artificial sounds of an electric set. The clothing store Aéropostale started selling the album and this was also done with the latest Fall Out Boy album to increase awareness of the Aero brand. The free download is no longer due to it being limited until midnight of the album release. The single Natural Disaster is featured as downloadable content for the Rock Band series, absolutePunk later lampooned the record by claiming that album had sold 10 million copies, as their April Fools Day joke of 2009. However, the album gained a positive reception from critics
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Hollywood Records
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Hollywood Records, Inc. is an American record label of the Disney Music Group. The label focuses in pop, rock, alternative, hip hop, the label also releases Marvel Studioss soundtrack and compilation albums in conjunction with Marvel Music. At the time, the company was limited to the release of soundtracks from Touchstone, lawyer Peter Paterno was the first president of the label, until his resignation in 1993 because of the divisions lackluster sales. In 1997, Disney acquired Mammoth Records, in order to get a record label that could succeed. However, the acquisition of Mammoth was a failure and the label was closed and integrated to Hollywood in 2003. In 1998, the decided to form Buena Vista Music Group, integrating the operations of Walt Disney Records along with Hollywood, Lyric Street, Mammoth. Bob Cavallo, former manager of Earth, Wind & Fire and Prince was appointed as chairman of the group and this movement looked to organize the music operations of the company under a more integrated direction. The launch of Duffs career represents a new model for the record, utilising the synergies around the company, including important outlets like Disney Channel, Radio Disney. Duffs albums released under Hollywood proved to be successful including 2004s Hilary Duff. Their musical careers proved that the label had become a success, the label also continued to release soundtracks from films and TV shows, mainly those derived from Marvel Studios productions. In 2010, Hollywood absorbed the operations of country music label Lyric Street Records. In 2011, Queen left EMI for Universal-owned Island Records, with Hollywood continuing to remain the groups North American music distributor. In January 2012, after 14 years of a successful tenure, Bob Cavallo retired as chairman of the Group, since 2013, Hollywood Records also uses the brand name DMG Nashville to specialize in country music. The genre label was founded to provide music licensing for Bigger Picture Music Group, after Bigger Pictures closure in 2014, DMG Nashville released its first studio album, Lucy Hales Road Between. Hollywood Basic was Hollywood’s short-lived hip-hop subsidiary, run by Dave Funkenklein and it also released Shadows Legitimate Mix on the B-side of a single by the group Zimbabwe Legit in 1992. Although the BASIC Beats Sampler confirmed its release date for April 1992, other notable releases came from Organized Konfusion, its challenging second album, Stress, The Extinction Agenda, was widely acclaimed. The label was home of Charizma and Peanut Butter Wolf, although, following the shooting death of Charizma in 1993. This would later inspire Peanut Butter Wolf to found Stones Throw Records in order to make this music available, acts on Hollywood BASICs roster included Charizma and Peanut Butter Wolf, Lifers Group, Organized Konfusion, Raw Fusion, Hi-C, and Zimbabwe Legit
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Record producer
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A record producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performers music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album. A producer has many roles during the recording process, the roles of a producer vary. The producer may perform these roles himself, or help select the engineer, the producer may also pay session musicians and engineers and ensure that the entire project is completed within the record companies budget. A record producer or music producer has a broad role in overseeing and managing the recording. Producers also often take on an entrepreneurial role, with responsibility for the budget, schedules, contracts. In the 2010s, the industry has two kinds of producers with different roles, executive producer and music producer. Executive producers oversee project finances while music producers oversee the process of recording songs or albums. In most cases the producer is also a competent arranger, composer. The producer will also liaise with the engineer who concentrates on the technical aspects of recording. Noted producer Phil Ek described his role as the person who creatively guides or directs the process of making a record, indeed, in Bollywood music, the designation actually is music director. The music producers job is to create, shape, and mold a piece of music, at the beginning of record industry, producer role was technically limited to record, in one shot, artists performing live. The role of producers changed progressively over the 1950s and 1960s due to technological developments, the development of multitrack recording caused a major change in the recording process. Before multitracking, all the elements of a song had to be performed simultaneously, all of these singers and musicians had to be assembled in a large studio and the performance had to be recorded. As well, for a song that used 20 instruments, it was no longer necessary to get all the players in the studio at the same time. Examples include the rock sound effects of the 1960s, e. g. playing back the sound of recorded instruments backwards or clanging the tape to produce unique sound effects. These new instruments were electric or electronic, and thus they used instrument amplifiers, new technologies like multitracking changed the goal of recording, A producer could blend together multiple takes and edit together different sections to create the desired sound. For example, in jazz fusion Bandleader-composer Miles Davis album Bitches Brew, producers like Phil Spector and George Martin were soon creating recordings that were, in practical terms, almost impossible to realise in live performance. Producers became creative figures in the studio, other examples of such engineers includes Joe Meek, Teo Macero, Brian Wilson, and Biddu
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Natural Disaster (Plain White T's song)
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Natural Disaster is the first single from the Plain White Ts fifth studio album Big Bad World. It was released to pop radio on August 8,2008 and peaked at #25 on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart, the music video for the song became available in August 2008 and was released in many music channels, such as MTV and VH1. It begins with the famous line Frankly, my dear, I dont give a damn as the camera pans the Plain White Ts, the video shows the band playing on a club and each member of the band is seduced by a beautiful model. One of the girls, who is seducing Tom Higgenson, is Tiffany Dupont, who was known for playing Frannie Morgan on ABC Family TV series Greek in seasons 1 &2, the song is available for download as a playable track in Rock Band and Rock Band 2
