There's a great book out
called "Recording
The Beatles" that explains all of the techniques and
equipment used at Abbey Road. It is a fantastic piece of
research and documentation. Good job fellas!
The Geeks
Great Hero's :
Smokey Yunick
Carol Kaye
Check out her website- it's very good: Carol Kaye
An LA studio musician who played on so many great
records:
The Beach Boys: "Wouldn't It Be Nice," "Help Me
Rhonda," "Good Vibrations," "Caroline No," "Sloop John B,"
"Heroes and Villains," "California Girls," most of Pet
Sounds LP. Electric guitar on an earlier hit, "Surfin' USA."
Plus work for Joe Cocker ("Feelin' Alright") Barbra
Streisand ("The Way We Were"), the Marketts ("Batman
Theme"), Simon & Garfunkel ("Homeward Bound"), the
Righteous Brothers ("Soul & Inspiration"), Ike and Tina
Turner ("River Deep Mountain High"), Ray Charles ("America
The Beautiful" & "Don't Change On Me" & "I Don't
Need No Doctor" & "I Chose To Sing The Blues" &
"Understanding" & "Feel So Bad") Brenda Holloway ("You
Made Me So Very Happy"), Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass
("Whipped Cream"), Andy Williams ("Love Story"), Lou Rawls
(""Natural Man," "Unforgettable" and "Tobacco Road"), Glen
Campbell ("Wichita Lineman" and others), Motherlode ("When I
Die"), Frank and Nancy Sinatra ("Something Stupid"), Nancy
Sinatra ("These Boots Are Made For Walkin'," "Sugar Town")
plus the Monkees, Gary Lewis & the Playboys, the
Buckinghams, Paul Revere & the Raiders, Gary Usher, Gary
Puckett and Union Gap, Bill Cosby ("Hikky Burr" with him and
Quincy Jones, "Chump Change" with Quincy also). Did over
10,000 recording sessions in Los Angeles. Was first call on
elecric bass from 1964 through about 1974, but played
electric bass on all sessions from 1963 through last thing I
did, the theme for "Soap" TV series (1981). Guitar hits: "La
Bamba" Ritchie Valens, "Zippity Doo Dah" Bob B. Soxx &
Blue Jeans, "Unchained Melody" & "You've Lost That
Lovin' Feelin'" Righteous Bros., "The Beat Goes On" (he used
my bass line doubled with bassist Bob West) & "He's A
Rebel", "I Got You Babe" & "Baby Don't Go" & "All I
Really want To Do)" & "Bang Bang" Sonny & Cher
(& "Alfie" Cher), "Danke Shoen" Wayne Newton, "Mexican
Shuffle" Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, "Mothers Of
Invention & Freak Out LPs w/Frank Zappa.
TV Shows: "Mission Impossible", "M.A.S.H.", "Room 222",
Kojac, "Hawaii 5-O" (played bass on Ventures' thing of
this), "Ironside", "McCloud," "Addams Family," first Cosby
TV (Quincy Jones), "The Streets Of San Francisco," "Brady
Bunch," "Hogan's Heroes," "Alice," "Cannon," "Soap," "The
Paper Chase," "Mannix," "It Takes A Thief," "Wonder Woman,"
"Peyton Place," "The Love Boat," "Get Smart," "FBI," etc. A
few movies: "Airport," "The Thomas Crown Affair," "Walk,
Don't Run," "Sweet Charity," "The New Centurions," "The
Pawnbroker," "Slender Thread," "Plaza Suite," "Smokey and
the Bandit," "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner," "Beneath The
Planet of the Apes."
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