The Wrecking Crew

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Arts Documentary hosted by Denny Tedesco, published by Magnolia Pictures in 2014 - English narration

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Prolific session musicians the Wrecking Crew, who provided backup instrumentals for numerous popular bands in the 1960s, are profiled by filmmaker Denny Tedesco, whose father, Tommy, was a member of the band, in this absorbing documentary. The Wrecking Crew was a group of studio musicians in Los Angeles in the 1960s who played on hits for the Beach Boys, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Sinatra, Sonny and Cher, Jan & Dean, The Monkees, Gary Lewis and the Playboys, Mamas and Papas, Tijuana Brass, Ricky Nelson, Johnny Rivers and were Phil Spector's Wall of Sound. You know the Wrecking Crew, even if you don't think you do. The loosely affiliated assembly of musicians, which included the session drummer extraordinaire Hal Blaine (who coined the name), the bassist and guitarist Carol Kaye (one of the few female session players of her era), the guitarist Tommy Tedesco, and dozens of other musicians (at various times, Earl Palmer, Barney Kessel, Plas Johnson, Al Casey, Glen Campbell, James Burton, Leon Russell, Larry Knechtel, and Jack Nitzsche), dominated American popular music in the nineteen-sixties, first as the group of choice for Phil Spector and his Wall of Sound, and then as the physical embodiment of the lavish sonic dreams of Brian Wilson. Rarely credited on record, the Wrecking Crew nevertheless played for, with, and in the service of nearly every prominent American pop performer of the decade, to the point that it's probably easier to make a list of the acts it didn't support. If you've heard the Crystals ("He's a Rebel"), Jan and Dean ("Surf City"), Paul Revere and the Raiders ("Kicks"), Simon and Garfunkel ("Bridge Over Troubled Water"), the Association ("Windy"), the Mamas and the Papas ("California Dreamin' "), Frank Sinatra ("Strangers in the Night"), the Monkees ("Last Train to Clarksville"), Herb Alpert ("A Taste of Honey"), Nancy Sinatra ("These Boots Are Made For Walkin' "), or Sonny and Cher ("Bang Bang")—not to mention the "Batman" theme, the "Mission: Impossible" theme, the "Hawaii Five-O" theme, or the "Born Free" theme—then you've heard the Wrecking Crew. When producers called musicians, these were the musicians who got called first. They were also involved in groups that could be called like Milli Vanillis of the day. A producer would get the guys in and lay down some instrumental tracks. If it became a hit, they would record an album and put a group together to go on the road. This happened many times with groups like the Marketts, Routers, and T-Bones. The next day they would do the same thing and call it another name. Same musicians, but different group name. The record industry was primarily in New York, London and Detroit in the late '50s and early '60s. Then there was a surge towards the mid-60s that pushed the recording to the West Coast. So these musicians were recording around the clock for a good 8 years. The heyday for this group was in 1967 when the charts turned to the West. The amount of work that they were involved in was tremendous. These dedicated musicians brought the flair and musicianship that made the American "West Coast Sound" a dominant cultural force around the world. A Film by Denny Tedesco

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Video Codec: x264 CABAC Main@L3.1
Video Bitrate: 2 498 Kbps
Video Resolution: 1280x720
Video Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Frames Per Second: 25.000 fps
Audio Codec: AAC (LC)
Audio Bitrate: 128 kb/s VBR 48000 Hz
Audio Streams: 2
Audio Languages: english
RunTime Per Part: 1 h 37 min
Number Of Parts: 1
Part Size: 1.79 GB
Source: WEB-DL
Capper: DocFreak08