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Audie Award Winner, History, 2013 If you were a lover of popular music in the 1960s and early on '70s, you were a lover of the Wrecking Team - whether you recognized it or not. On reach record after reach record, by everyone from the Byrds, the Beach Young boys, and the Monkees to the Grass Origins, the 5th Dimension, Sonny & Cher, and Simon & Garfunkel, this collection of West Coastline studio musicians from diverse backgrounds established themselves as the driving a vehicle audio of pop music - sometimes in the objection of real band members pressured to make way for Wrecking Crew customers. Industry insider Kent Hartman tells the remarkable, definitive account of the musicians who forged a reputation throughout the business as the trick weapons behind the very best recording actors. Mining important interviews, the writer follows the careers of such treatment experts as drummer Hal Blaine and keyboardist Larry Knechtel, as well as trailblazing bassist Carol Kaye, who went on to play in a large number of recording consultations. Listeners will quickly realize the Wrecking Team members who forge careers in their own right, including Glen Campbell and Leon Russell, and learn of the relationship between your Team and such legends as Phil Spector and Jimmy Webb. Hartman also calls for us inside the studio for the famous sessions that offered us Family pet Tones, Bridge Over Troubled Normal water, and the rock and roll basic "Layla", which Wrecking Team drummer Jim Gordon cowrote with Eric Clapton for Derek and the Dominos. And the writer recounts priceless moments, such as Mike Nesmith of the Monkees facing off with studio mind Don Kirshner, Grass Roots lead guitarist (and future star of The Office) Creed Bratton getting fired from the group, and Michel Rubini unseating Frank Sinatra's pianist for the treatment in which the iconic vocalist improvised the hit-making ending to "Strangers in the Night". The Wrecking Team tells the collective, behind-the-scenes experiences of the performers who dominated Top-40 radio during the most exciting amount of time in American popular culture.
