Danny Brown
Danny Brown is a Texan musician who composed, performed and produced music for stock companies, including stock music that was used in Club Penguin.
Music Career[edit]
Danny Brown worked on salary at a studio while recording music for music libraries. He did radio and TV spots, managed equipment across six studios and two dub rooms, and did production music on his downtime. He joined a group of about four writers, including Milo Deering, and wrote production music cuts for several production music libraries, from 1992 to 2000, writing a number of possibly over 1000 music. He produced and mixed a lot of music for Hollywood Edge, a lot of which ended up in Club Penguin. However, once they quit selling the libraries, the publishing right returned to the composers and to the people who booked them originally. One of the selling points of their music was that everything was made with real instruments, and the music was recorded being played in front of microphones, although some music was edited digitally. When producing music for companies, Danny would often make songs in 4 lengths: 15, 30, 60 and 90 seconds, as well as an underscore take (no lead melody), and sometimes an alternate mix, which usually had drums and other parts pulled out. He recorded the tracks to an old version of Pro Tools, and the instruments for the music were individually recorded.
Reaction to Club Penguin[edit]
He first learned that his music was on Club Penguin through his daughter, who showed it to him when she was around the age of 8. He later would discover the high uploads of the song on YouTube, when he first interacted with the community, commenting about the legal status of his music, as well as to chat about its story[1]. Brown has commented he finds interesting how people (Club Penguin fans) are this interested in the music that was only side money for him and his coworkers.
Trivia[edit]
- He still has the same guitar used on Maximum Wave.
- He tapes from the stock music he produced, but he has no DAT machine to play them.
- He has known Ron Jones (composer for many stock songs from The Hollywood Edge Library) since junior high school, when they played together in band.
- He has commented his dislike on recording Christmas music, since the music was always recorded in summer, was done every year on a batch of many songs, and overused the song "Jingle Bells".