I'm reading "The Wrecking Crew" this week, so post your favorite "Crew" recordings!

[Mark Wein]

I thought I was pretty well educated about this stuff but its really amazing how this got started and what an uncredited but great creative force those guys (and girl) were to 60's popular music.

I'm just going back and listening to music as it gets mentioned in the book. I'm on this right now:



and this

 

[Mark Wein]

a bit about the crew:

 

[Lerxst]

My wife is possibly going to be meeting Glen Campbell this evening.

 

[Mark Wein]

srsly? thats killer. I was just reading about him earlier and his health...

 

[mongooz]

yep......wrecking crew plus da funk bruthas = a good part of the best music of the 60's and early 70's

 

[Mark Wein]

 

[Lerxst]

That's exactly why...it's Day on the Hill & the advocacy forum for the Alzheimer's Association & he is participating. She got to chat with David Hyde Pierce last night. Glen has been pretty active in raising awareness and speaking out on behalf of the association.

 

[Mark Wein]

That's exactly why...it's Day on the Hill & the advocacy forum for the Alzheimer's Association & he is participating. She got to chat with David Hyde Pierce last night. Glen has been pretty active in raising awareness and speaking out on behalf of the association.

What I was reading was saying that he actually can still play pretty well but he's deteriorating in other ways :(

 

[reverend1]

Have you seen the movie?

 

[rsadasiv]

 

[rsadasiv]

See also

The Funk Brothers
Booker T and the M.G.'s
Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section
MFSB
The J.B.'s
Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra
The Memphis Boys

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wrecking_Crew_(music)

 

[Mark Wein]

Glorious.

 

[Mark Wein]

 

[Mark Wein]

 

[Mark Wein]

This was one from earlier in the book. Lots of the songs they mention are ones Ive "heard" but never "listened to".

 

[Mark Wein]

 

[BoomBoomBigelow]

From a Chicago perspective, two names are pivotal, as session musicians/producers, and their associated cohorts, at the very birth of rock and roll, as well as R&B/Soul:

Willie Dixon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Dixon

and Curtis Mayfield

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Mayfield

 

[Tralfaz]

 

[mattburnside]

This is simply one of the best songs and performances of all time. It's amazing that Jimmy Webb wrote both this and "MacArthur Park," and I fucking can't stand the latter.

 

[BoomBoomBigelow]

Uh oh: