![]() Keyboardist Don Randi said, “We were all starving. Tambourine Man, so in came the chart-busting Wrecking Crew.ĭespite being jazz trained, The Wrecking Crew were more than happy to make the transition to rock n’ roll. ![]() Just a few famous tunes that involved The Wrecking Crew include: Nancy Sinatra’s These Boots Are Made For Walking, 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, or Sonny and Cher Bang Bang – not to mention the Batman theme, the Mission: Impossible theme, the Hawaii Five-O theme.Ĭolumbia Records executives deemed that the Byrds band members David Crosby, Chris Hillman, Gene Clark and Mike Clarke were not polished enough to play on their #1 debut single Mr. They were Herb Alpert’s Tijuana Brass, Phil Spector’s ‘Wall of Sound’, as well as The Monkees and The Partridge Family. ![]() They were involved with countless acts, from Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra to Elvis Presley and The Ronettes. Thoroughly trained in either jazz or classical all players were exceptional at sight reading. The Wrecking Crew were ‘the band’ of the 1960s.
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