Documentaries

THE WRECKING CREW

Denny Tedesco
USA 2008
98 min
V'09

The greatest group of pop musicians you have never heard of, The Wrecking Crew was a loose coterie of approximately twenty Los Angeles session musicians responsible for some of the most sublime music to come from the West Coast in the late '50s and throughout the '60s. Nominally led by guitar virtuoso Tommy Tedesco - it's his son Denny who has directed this crucial corrective to received pop music history - the Crew were young, talented and willing to try anything for the many music producers who avidly sought their skills and creative imaginations. And what creative imaginations! The sounds and iconic riffs they came up with are jaw-dropping in both scope and the way in which they have become embedded in the collective unconscious of pop music fans. The bass riff on Nancy Sinatra's \"These Boots Are Made for Walking\"? The Wrecking Crew. Phil Spector's vaunted \"Wall of sound\"? The Crew. Frank Sinatra's lushly arranged backing music? Played by the Crew.
Toiling in obscurity the Crew was rarely credited for the contributions they made to so many classics; various bands were embarrassed to admit they weren't the musicians on their own records! Denny Tedesco's hugely entertaining film should finally, ahem, set the record straight. (Vancouver International Film Festival)

Credits
  • Hal Blaine
  • Carole Kaye
  • Tommy Tedesco
  • Glen Campbell
  • Earl Palmer (The Wrecking Crew)
  • Denny Tedesco
  • Claire Scanlon
  • Rodney Taylor
  • Trish Govoni
  • Brian Bidder
  • Claire Scanlon
  • Frank Sinatra
  • The Beach Boys
  • The Ronettes
  • Wayne Newton
  • The Monkees
  • The Routers
  • Herb Albert's Tijuana Brass
  • Chris Montez
  • The Chipmunks
  • The Crystals
  • Sonny and Cher
  • Tommy Roe
Lunch Box Entertianment

Denny Tedesco 22640 Califa Street Woodland Hills, CA 91367, USA T +818 448 4436 dennyted@mac.com

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