The Wrecking Crew (39 page)

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Authors: Kent Hartman

ARTICLES: Cogan, “Bill Putnam,”
Mix
, 2003. Sutheim, “An Afternoon With: Bill Putnam,”
Journal of the Audio Engineering Society,
1989. Hevesi, “Gene Chenault, Who Changed Rock Radio, Dies at 90,”
New York Times,
2010. “Programming: The Executioner,”
Time,
August 23, 1968. “What Goes On!: Smells like Teen Spirit,”
Mojo,
2002.

WEB SITES:
www.barrymcguire.com
;
www.uaudio.com/about/our-story
;
www.emmytvlegends.org/blog/?p=1273
.

OTHER: “California Dreamin'” AFM session date contract (November 4, 1965).
T.A.M.I Show
DVD.

10. Strangers in the Night

AUTHOR INTERVIEWS with Herb Alpert (1/8/10), Hal Blaine (10/25/08), Chuck Berghofer (12/2/05), Jimmy Bowen (12/13/05), Glen Campbell (12/9/05; 3/12/10), and Michel Rubini (3/4/10).

BOOKS: Bowen and Jerome,
Rough Mix;
Bronson,
The Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits;
Campbell with Carter,
Rhinestone Cowboy;
Granata,
Sessions with Sinatra: Frank Sinatra and the Art of Recording;
Kaplan,
Frank: The Voice;
Tosches,
Dino: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams;
Whitburn,
Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Sixties;
Whitburn,
The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits
.

ARTICLE: “Recordings: Hitting Big with Hummables,”
Time,
1969.

WEB SITE:
www.grammy.com
.

OTHER: “A Taste of Honey” AFM session date contract (March 10, 1965). “Strangers in the Night” AFM session date contract (April 11, 1966).

11. Good Vibrations

AUTHOR INTERVIEWS with Hal Blaine (11/21/05; 9/28/07), Glen Campbell (12/9/05; 3/12/10), Frank Capp (12/7/09), Kane Cole (8/27/09), Al DeLory (1/7/07), Carol Kaye (11/16/05), Larry Knechtel (7/13/97; 11/17/02), David Leaf (10/26/09), Mike Melvoin (7/23/09), Bill Pitman (2/22/09), Guy Pohlman (1/18/11), Don Randi (10/13/07), Emil Richards (8/7/09), Lyle Ritz (11/23/05), Billy Strange (11/21/05), and Dean Torrence (2/18/10).

BOOKS: Benarde,
Stars of David: Rock 'n' Roll's Jewish Stories;
Blaine with Mr. Bonzai,
Hal Blaine and the Wrecking Crew: The Story of the World's Most Recorded Musician;
Brooks and Marsh,
The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable Shows: 1946–Present;
Crosby and Gottlieb,
Long Time Gone, the Autobiography of David Crosby;
Emerick and Massey,
Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles;
Gaines,
Heroes & Villains: The True Story of the Beach Boys;
Lewisohn,
The Beatles Recording Sessions: The Official Abbey Road Studio Session Notes 1962–1970;
Miles,
Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now;
Passmore,
Dead Man's Curve and Back: The Jan & Dean Story;
Whitburn,
Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Sixties;
Whitburn,
Billboard's Top Pop Albums 1955–2001;
Wilson with Gold,
Wouldn't It Be Nice: My Own Story
.

ARTICLES: Crisafulli, “Endless Strummers: The Studio Heavyweights Behind the Beach Boys Sound,”
Guitar Player,
1993. Fricke, “Leon Russell: The Master of Space and Time Returns,”
Rolling Stone,
2010. Rasmussen, “Closing of Club Ignited the ‘Sunset Strip Riots,'”
Los Angeles Times,
2007. “Troubled Beach Boys Genius Finds Renewed Joy,”
CNN.com
, 2008.

WEB SITES:
www.billystrangemusic.com
;
www.radiocityhollywood.com/?p=18
;
www.norimuster.com/history/capitoldaysintro.html
;
www.lib.umich.edu/node/11736
.

OTHER: Audio outtakes (mp3), “Help Me, Rhonda” session, Western Recorders, January 8, 1965. “God Only Knows” AFM session date contract (March 10, 1966). “Good Vibrations” AFM session date contracts (1966: February 17, April 9, May 4, May 25, May 27, and June 16). Interviews from the CD box set
The Pet Sounds Sessions,
by the Beach Boys (Capitol Records, 1997). “Sloop John B” AFM session date contract (July 12, 1965). “These Boots Are Made for Walkin'” AFM session date contract (November 19, 1965).

12. Let's Live for Today

AUTHOR INTERVIEWS with Steve Barri (11/13/09), Creed Bratton (1/24/10), Micky Dolenz (6/30/09), Bones Howe (7/28/10), Carol Kaye (11/16/05), Don Peake (11/21/09), Mike Post (1/7/10), Michel Rubini (3/4/10), and P. F. Sloan (10/28/09).

BOOKS: Bono,
And the Beat Goes On
; Bronson,
Hey, Hey, We're the Monkees
; Dolenz and Bego
, I'm a Believer: My Life of Monkees, Music, and Madness;
Friedan,
The Feminine Mystique;
Graham and Greenfield,
Bill Graham Presents: My Life Inside Rock and Out;
Massingill,
Total Control: The Monkees Michael Nesmith Story;
Sandoval,
The Monkees: The Day-by-Day Story of the 60s TV Pop Sensation;
Whitburn,
Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Sixties;
Whitburn,
Billboard's Top Pop Albums 1955–2001
.

ARTICLES: Fox, “Betty Friedan, Who Ignited Cause in ‘Feminine Mystique,' Dies at 85,”
New York Times,
2006. Segal, “Return of the Hit Man,”
Washington Post,
2004. Sisario, “Don Kirshner, Shaper of Hit Records, Dies at 76,”
New York Times,
2011.

OTHER: “Midnight Confessions” AFM session date contract (May 14, 1968). “The Beat Goes On” AFM session date contract (December 13, 1966).

13. Up, Up and Away

AUTHOR INTERVIEWS with Hal Blaine (11/21/05; 9/28/07; 10/25/08), Glen Campbell (12/9/05; 3/12/10), Al DeLory (1/7/07), Bones Howe (11/2/05; 6/24/09; 1/26/10; 7/28/10), Larry Knechtel (11/17/02), Chuck Rainey (2/23/06), Johnny Rivers (12/13/05), Armin Steiner (7/7/09), and Jimmy Webb (7/27/09).

BOOKS: Blaine with Mr. Bonzai,
Hal Blaine and the Wrecking Crew: The Story of the World's Most Recorded Musician;
Bowman,
Soulsville, U.S.A.: The Story of Stax Records;
Brokaw,
Boom!: Voices of the Sixties: Personal Reflections on the ‘60s and Today;
Bronson,
The Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits;
Campbell with Carter,
Rhinestone Cowboy;
Kranow,
Vietnam: A History;
McCoo with Davis and Yorkey,
Up, Up and Away;
Katz,
The Film Encyclopedia;
Posner,
Motown: Music, Money, Sex, and Power;
Webb,
Tunesmith: Inside the Art of Songwriting;
Whitburn,
Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Sixties;
Whitburn,
Billboard's Top Pop Albums 1955-2001;
Whitburn,
The Billboard Book of Top Country Hits
.

ARTICLES: Johnson, “Grammy Awards Bestowed,”
Los Angeles Times,
1968. Reitman and Landsberg, “Watts Riots, 40 Years Later,”
LATimes.com
, 2005. Piorkowski, “Jimmy Webb Talks About His Acclaimed Songs and Troubled Life,”
Euclid Sun Journal,
2009. Sisario, “Pierre Cossette, Who Brought Grammys to TV, Dies at 85,”
Los Angeles Times,
2009. Weiner, “This Is Where I Came In: The Song Cycles of Jimmy Webb,”
Stylus,
2005.

WEB SITES:
www.grammy.com
;
www.laconservancy.org/centuryplaza/century_moments.php4
;
www.examiner.com/movie-in-baltimore/biggest-box-office-bombs-6-cleopatra-1963
;
www.nashvillesound.net/current/ateam.htm
;
www.wattstax.com/backstory/staxhistory.html
;
www.india-server.com/awards/features/grammy-awards-1968-218.html
.

OTHER: “Up, Up and Away” AFM session date contract (February 22, 1967).

14. Classical Gas

AUTHOR INTERVIEWS with Gary Coleman (12/16/09; 1/17/10), Larry Knechtel (1/17/02), Mike Post (1/7/10; 1/26/10), Tommy Smothers (10/21/06), and Mason Williams (8/17/09).

BOOKS: Bianculli,
Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour;
Brooks and Marsh,
The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable Shows: 1946–Present
; Feldman,
The Billboard Book of No. 2 Singles;
Sandoval,
The Monkees: The Day-by-Day Story of the 60s TV Pop Sensation;
Whitburn,
Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Sixties
.

ARTICLE: Taubman, “Hair and the 20's: Pert Musical on Lafayette Street Recalls Another Era's Off-Broadway Revues,”
New York Times,
1967.

WEB SITE:
www.july4th.org
;
www.grammy.com
.

OTHER: “Classical Gas” AFM session date contract (November 14, 1967).

15. Wichita Lineman

AUTHOR INTERVIEWS with Kerry Chater (12/31/09), Glen Campbell (12/9/05; 3/12/10), Al DeLory (1/7/07), Jerry Fuller (7/24/09), Carol Kaye (11/16/05), Gary Puckett (11/23/09), and Jimmy Webb (7/27/09).

BOOKS: Campbell with Carter,
Rhinestone Cowboy;
Webb,
Tunesmith: Inside the Art of Songwriting;
Whitburn,
Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Sixties;
Whitburn,
Billboard's Top Pop Albums 1955–2001;
Whitburn,
The Billboard Book of Top Country Hits
.

ARTICLES: Black, “The Greatest Songs Ever! Wichita Lineman,”
Blender,
2001 (online edition). Hunter, “Arkansas to Hollywood to Phoenix,”
The Beat,
2005.

OTHER: “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” AFM session date contract (August 17, 1967). “Wichita Lineman” AFM session date contract (May 27, 1968). “Woman, Woman” AFM session date contract (August 16, 1967).

16. MacArthur Park

AUTHOR INTERVIEWS with Hal Blaine (10/25/08; 2/21/09), Ted Bluechel, Jr. (12/30/09), Bones Howe (11/2/05; 6/24/09; 1/26/10; 7/28/10), Terry Kirkman (12/17/09), Larry Knechtel (11/17/02), Ron Jacobs (1/9/10), and Jimmy Webb (7/27/09).

BOOKS: Blaine with Mr. Bonzai,
Hal Blaine and the Wrecking Crew: The Story of the World's Most Recorded Musician;
Feldman,
The Billboard Book of No. 2 Singles;
Fong-Torres,
The Hits Just Keep On Coming: The History of Top 40 Radio;
Webb,
Tunesmith: Inside the Art of Songwriting;
Whitburn,
Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Sixties;
Whitburn,
Billboard's Top Pop Albums 1955–2001
.

ARTICLES: Amendola, “Hal Blaine,”
Modern Drummer,
2006 (online edition). Boucher, “‘MacArthur Park' Jimmy Webb,”
Los Angeles Times,
2007. Piorkowski, “Jimmy Webb Talks About His Acclaimed Songs and Troubled Life,”
Euclid Sun Journal,
2009. Wapshott, “That Soggy Cake and Other Stories: Jimmy Webb Looks Back on ‘MacArthur Park', and the Songs He Wrote for Barbra Streisand and Himself,”
The Independent,
1994. Weiner, “This Is Where I Came In: The Song Cycles of Jimmy Webb,”
Stylus,
2005.

WEB SITE:
www.grammy.com
.

OTHER: “MacArthur Park” AFM session date contract (December 21, 1968).

17. Bridge Over Troubled Water

AUTHOR INTERVIEWS with Hal Blaine (11/21/05; 2/21/09), Glen Campbell (12/9/05; 3/25/10), Fred Carter, Jr. (2/25/10), Gary Coleman (12/6/10; 1/17/10), Roy Halee (8/10/09), Bones Howe (1/26/10), Carol Kaye (11/16/05), Larry Knechtel (11/17/02), Joe Osborn (12/6/05), and Michelle Phillips (11/20/09).

BOOKS: Blaine with Mr. Bonzai,
Hal Blaine and the Wrecking Crew: The Story of the World's Most Recorded Musician;
Bronson,
The Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits;
Brooks and Marsh,
The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable Shows: 1946–Present;
Campbell with Carter,
Rhinestone Cowboy;
Humphries,
Paul Simon: Still Crazy After All These Years;
Katz,
The Film Encyclopedia;
Luftig,
The Paul Simon Companion: Four Decades of Commentary;
Morella and Barey,
Simon and Garfunkel: Old Friends;
Whitburn,
Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Sixties;
Whitburn,
Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Seventies;
Whitburn,
Billboard's Top Pop Albums 1955–2001
.

ARTICLES: Evans, “The Making of ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water,'”
Goldmine,
2010. Hunter, “Arkansas to Hollywood to Phoenix,”
The Beat
, 2005. Kienzle, “Hired Gun,”
Fretboard Journal,
2008. Manno, “Joe Osborn: A Few Hundred Hits,”
Vintage Guitar,
2006. Schneider, “Nashville Guitar Legend Fred Carter Jr. Dies at 76,”
Exclaim!
2010.

WEB SITE:
www.grammy.com
.

OTHER: “Bridge Over Troubled Water” AFM session date contracts (August 1, 1969, August 6, 1969, August 7, 1969, August 13, 1969, August 14, 1969, and August 21, 1969). “Mrs. Robinson” AFM session date contracts (February 1, 1968, and February 2, 1968).

18. (They Long to Be) Close to You

AUTHOR INTERVIEWS with Herb Alpert (1/8/10), Tom Bahler (10/02/09), Hal Blaine (10/25/08), Gary Coleman (12/6/10; 1/17/10), Snuff Garrett (8/3/09), Roy Halee (8/10/09), Joe Osborn (12/6/05), Michel Rubini (3/4/10), Louie Shelton (7/5/09), and Linda Wolf (12/17/09).

BOOKS: Bronson,
The Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits;
Clapton,
Clapton: The Autobiography;
Coleman,
The Carpenters: The Untold Story;
Dumas,
The Three Musketeers;
Evslin,
Heroes, Gods and Monsters of the Greek Myths;
Schmidt,
Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter;
Whitburn,
Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Seventies;
Whitburn,
Billboard's Top Pop Albums 1955–2001
.

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