HISTORY JUNE 2012 Kent Hartman “You are in for a big surprise!” —Dusty Street The Inside StoryWrecking of Rock and Roll’s Best-Kept Crew Secret
Part Hit Men and part Laurel Canyon, this hidden history of rock and roll chronicles the uncredited studio musi- cians who provided the soundtrack for a generation dur- ing the 1960s and 1970s. If you were a fan of popular music in the 1960s and early ’70s, you were a fan of the Wrecking Crew—whether you knew it or not. On hit record after hit record by everyone from the Byrds, the Beach Boys, and the Monkees to the Grass Roots, the 5th Dimension, Sonny & Cher, and Simon & Garfunkel, this collection of West Coast studio musicians from diverse backgrounds established themselves as the driving sound of pop music—sometimes over the objection of actual band members forced to make way for Wrecking Crew members. Industry insider Kent Hartman tells the dramatic, definitive story of the musicians who forged a reputation throughout the business as the secret weapons behind the top recording stars. Mining invaluable interviews, the author follows the Read by Dan John Miller careers of such session masters as drummer Hal Blaine Category: History/Music and keyboardist Larry Knechtel, as well as trailblazing Running Time: 10 hrs 30 min - Unabridged bassist Carol Kaye. Listeners will discover the Wrecking Hardcover: 02/14/2012 (35,000 Thomas Dunne Books) Territory: US and Canada Crew members who would forge careers in their own right, On Sale Date: 06/18/2012 including Glen Campbell and Leon Russell, and learn of Trade 9781452608068 9 Audio CDs $39.99 the relationship between the Crew and such legends as Phil Library 9781452638065 9 Audio CDs $83.99 Spector and Jimmy Webb. Hartman also takes us inside the MP3 9781452658063 1 MP3-CD $29.99 studio for the legendary sessions that gave us Pet Sounds, Bridge Over Troubled Water, and the rock classic “Layla,” Kent Hartman is both an author and which Wrecking Crew drummer Jim Gordon cowrote a longtime music business insider and with Eric Clapton for Derek and the Dominos. And the entrepreneur. His clients over the years author recounts priceless scenes such as Mike Nesmith of have included Elvis Presley Enterprises, the Monkees facing off with studio head Don Kirshner, America, Lyle Lovett, Hall & Oates, Grass Roots lead guitarist (and future star of The Office) Kenny Loggins, Counting Crows, Creed Bratton getting fired from the group, and Michel Garbage, and many others. During the mid-2000s he Rubini unseating Frank Sinatra’s pianist for the session in also co-owned Mark Lindsay’s Rock & Roll Café with Mark Lindsay, the former lead singer of Paul Revere & which the iconic singer improvised the hit-making ending the Raiders. to “Strangers in the Night.” Actor and musician Dan John Miller is an award- MARKETING winning audiobook narrator, having garnered multiple • Movie option purchased Audie Award nominations, been twice-named a Best Voice by AudioFile magazine, and received several • Author appearances on radio and television AudioFile Golden Earphones Awards and a Listen-Up • Author tour and events Award from Publishers Weekly. • Web site: www.wreckingcrewbook.com
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