The Wrecking Crew
 

This is my "must-see" movie of the year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvXvTySfWMU

I have always been in awe of these guys, at least since I first found out how many well-know performers didn't record their own music. Of course that's not always true. Though many played their own stuff and played it well, it was usually faster for a trained session player to learn the parts and record them.

The woman who has the bit on 'The beat goes on' at 1:35 is Carol Kaye. Though most people have never heard of her she is credited with more than 10,000 (yes, ten thousand) recording sessions, including a multitude of famous hits.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Kaye

Though Kaye and some others have insisted that the group never had an official name and never called themselves 'The Wrecking Crew', that name has become associated with them and now probably always will be.

Anyway, I'll be in the theater opening day. :D

Not the only one Steve. The Swampers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNGtfpim0OM
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OH YEAH!!! :rock:

This year is starting off right! :D

They make two on my list for this year.

I've seen the Muscle Shoals film; well worth the effort to find and view... :up:

The use of studio musicians is a throwback to the heyday of the old, pre-Beatles/Dylan/Stones era when the record companies controlled almost every aspect of a recording artist's career. You would get signed to a label, then an A&R (Artist & Repertoire) man would find a song for you to sing, usually from a library of songs from the label's publishing arm. An arranger would do the charts for the session and a producer would assemble the studio musicians, backup singers, engineers, and anyone else need to do the recording sessions. Until the era of the Beatles/Dylan/Stones, the only artist who really had much say over their career was Buddy Holly, but his run was unfortunately very short...


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