In 2001 " American Pie " was voted No. 5 in a poll of the 365 Songs of the Century compiled by the Recording Industry Association of America and the National Endowment for the Arts.

The Recording Artists ' Coalition ( RAC ) is an American music industry organization that represents recording artists, and attempts to defend their rights and interests.

* Recording Artist Franny Boye recorded a cover of the song, and preformed it on Dick Clark's American Bandstand in 1960.

Carr's " The Dark End of the Street " ( written by Chips Moman and Dan Penn ) was recorded in 1967 at two other Memphis studios, Royal Recording and American Sound Studios.

1978 was also the year that Maurice and EWF's managers Cavallo and Ruffalo worked out a deal for the launch of a new record label called The American Recording Company ( ARC ), to be distributed through CBS, and the creation of a recording studio, George Massenburg / ARC, also called " The Complex ", in West Los Angeles.

Brown's fourth and final album was titled Snap and was recorded at Pumpkin Recording Studios in Oak Lawn Illinois, owned by Gary Loizzo, who was a former member of The American Breed and sang their hit " Bend Me Shape Me " in 1968.

The American recording industry honoured her with Grammy Awards for " Best Rock & Roll Recording of 1964 " for " Downtown " and for " Best Contemporary ( R & R ) Vocal Performance of 1965-Female " for " I Know a Place ".

Popular American Recording Pioneers: 1895-1925.

The first medium for 4-channel sound was the quadraphonic reel-to-reel tape, standard in European electronic-music studios by 1953 and introduced to the American market by the Vanguard Recording Society in June 1969.

In February 1979 Maurice White of the R & B group Earth, Wind and Fire re-launched the American Recording Company ( ARC ), a Columbia Records distributed label whose artist roster included Deniece Williams and the Emotions.

** Andrew Lloyd Webber ( producer and composer ), Tim Rice ( producer and lyricist ) & the original cast with Patti Lupone & Mandy Patinkin for Evita-Premier American Recording

Black & White Record Co. ( aka Black & White Recording Company ) was an American record company and label active in recording blues and jazz artists from 1943 to 1949.

* The Elephant 6 Recording Company, a collective of independent American musicians

In 1999, recording artists formed the Recording Artists ' Coalition to repeal supposedly " technical revisions " to American copyright statutes which would have classified all " sound recordings " as " works for hire ", effectively assigning artists ' copyrights to record labels.

Maverick Recording Company is an American record label owned and operated by Warner Music Group, and distributed through Warner Bros. Records.

American Record Corporation ( ARC ), also referred to as American Record Company, American Recording Corporation, or ( erroneously ) as ARC Records, was a United States based record company.

From 2001 to 2011, the American Grammy Awards presented an annual award for Best Native American Music Album, and the Canadian Juno Awards present an annual award for Aboriginal Recording of the Year.

In 2011, the category Best Native American Music Album was eliminated along with thirty others due to a major overhaul by the Recording Academy.

* Great American Gingerbread-Filthy Bonnet Recording Co., 2011

** Steven Lance Ledbetter & Art Rosenbaum ( compilation producers ), Michael Graves ( mastering engineer ) for Art Of Field Recording Volume I: Fifty Years Of Traditional American Music Documented By Art Rosenbaum

* Recording, Inflections I, by Robert Hall Lewis ( for solo contrabass ), on New Music for Virtuoso / 2, New World Records, Recorded Anthology of American Music, Inc., NW 254 Stereo, recorded December 4, 1977, released November 1978.

* Kafi Benz ( b. 1941 ), American entrepreneur who is a preservationist, writer, and artist ; studio director for sculptor Jim Gary ; and the founder of Friends of Seagate Inc. and Kafi Benz Productions

Although its Academy Award was presented to Taiwan, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was in fact an international co-production between companies in four regions: the Chinese company China Film Co-Production Corporation ; the American companies Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia, Sony Pictures Classics and Good Machine ; the Hong Kong company EDKO Film ; and the Taiwanese Zoom Hunt International Productions Company, Ltd ; as well as the unspecified United China Vision, and Asia Union Film & Entertainment Ltd., created solely for this film.

* 1948 – Joe Roth, American director and producer, co-founded Morgan Creek Productions

* 1967 – Tim Schafer, American computer game designer, founded Double Fine Productions

* 1962 – Scott " La Rock " Sterling, American musician ( Boogie Down Productions ) ( d. 1987 )

Max Headroom is a British-produced American satirical science fiction television series by Chrysalis Visual Programming and Lakeside Productions for Lorimar-Telepictures that aired in the United States on ABC from March 1987 to May 1988.

* 1921 – Milton Subotsky, American screenwriter and producer, co-founded Amicus Productions ( d. 1991 )

A year before, Turner's companies purchased Hanna-Barbera Productions ( whose longtime parent, Taft / Great American Broadcasting, had been headquartered in Turner's original hometown of Cincinnati ), adding additional content.

In 1991, Turner Broadcasting System bought animation studio Hanna-Barbera Productions, and much of the back catalog of both Hanna-Barbera and Ruby-Spears Productions from Great American Broadcasting, and three years later, Turner bought New Line Cinema and Castle Rock Entertainment.

Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman.

* New Line Productions, an American film studio most often referred to as New Line Cinema, or simply New Line

Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends is an American animated television series produced by Marvel Productions starring established Marvel Comics characters Spider-Man and Iceman and an original character, Firestar.

It is produced by Prairie Home Productions and distributed by American Public Media, and is most often heard on public radio stations in the United States.

* Full Moon Productions, an American record label

Fantasia is a 1940 American animated film produced by Walt Disney and released by Walt Disney Productions.

Sweet Smell of Success is a 1957 American film noir made by Hill-Hecht-Lancaster Productions and released by United Artists.

The Three Caballeros is a 1944 American animated feature film, produced by Walt Disney Productions.

Disney made this film primarily to persuade and encourage American industry and various corporations to opt in and help Walt Disney Productions in the creation and running of EPCOT.

United Productions of America, better known as UPA, was an American animation studio of the 1940s through present day, beginning with industrial films and World War II training films.

In the American version of the series ( released in syndication through Erika Productions in 1967 ), Bokko's name was changed to Bonnie.

Walter Lantz Productions was an American animation studio.

The Real McCoys is an American situation comedy co-produced by Danny Thomas ' " Marterto Productions ", in association with Walter Brennan and Irving Pincus's " Westgate " company.

Sunrise at Campobello is a 1960 American biographical film made by Dore Schary Productions and Warner Bros., and based on the long-running Broadway play with the same name.