In the history of 20th-century music, there are a few significant backing bands that have performed in countless studio recordings, making them hits. In Alabama, there was a collection of musicians at ...

In the mid 20th Century, there was a crew of musicians who played on just about every top 40 hit, but they're names never appeared on the records... When I was a senior in high school my friend Andrew ...

Bill Pitman, a guitarist and bassist in the legendary Wrecking Crew of Los Angeles session musicians, has died at the age of 102. The New York Times confirmed Pitman died Thursday at his home in La ...

"The Wrecking Crew," Denny Tedesco's documentary on the studio musicians who performed on thousands of hit songs recorded in Los Angeles in the 1960s and '70s, opens in theaters and on VOD on March… ...

(Gibson) The collective of Los Angeles studio musicians dubbed "The Wrecking Crew" have earned tons of respect in the music community and yet most of the music-loving public has no idea who most of ...

If you were a fan of the Monkees, the Beach Boys or even the Byrds in the 1960s, a new book has a clue for you all: Your heroes were not necessarily playing the music on their own hit records. That's ...

The behind-the-scenes studio musicians who helped shape the sound of Motown finally got their due in the 2002 documentary “Standing in the Shadows of Motown.” Backup singers to the stars received ...

Filmmaker Denny Tedesco was initially worried about having too narrow a focus in his documentary The Wrecking Crew, a look at the extraordinary group of musicians who appeared on a host of immortal ...

Although he is not involved himself with anything currently going on, Tedesco nonetheless got name-checked in Kaye’s public complaint about her impending induction in October (which will go on with or ...

Many folks assume that yours truly knows everything about recorded music or more than anyone in Grand Junction. I can confidently say that neither of those assumptions is true. No one can possibly ...

On Wednesday The Wrecking Crew Movie Sidelined By Music Rights was a top story. Here is the recap: (Gibson) The collective of Los Angeles studio musicians dubbed "The Wrecking Crew" have earned tons ...