40 min

Episode 195 – The Wrecking Crew vs music history Rock N Roll Bedtime Stories

    • Musikhistoria

A listener letter sends the guys on the first of what could be many explorations into the backstories of some of the session musicians who made up the collective who would come to be known as “The Wrecking Crew.” Hear the story of the drummer who happened to be next door just in time to step into a powerful and historic musical moment.
 
 
SHOW NOTES:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Palmer
“I Hate My Generation” music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOsNsOhyG8I
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosimo_Matassa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aladdin_Records
Backbeat, the book: https://www.louisianamusicfactory.com/product/tony-scherman-backbeat-earl-palmers-story-book/
Modern Drummer feature: https://www.moderndrummer.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/md352cs.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelly_Manne
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/rock-hall-of-fame-drummer-earl-palmer-dead-at-84-254915/
https://www.adioslounge.com/sideman-spotlight-earl-palmer/
https://scottkfish.com/2016/01/23/earl-palmer-i-wasnt-quite-sure-what-i-wanted-to-do-with-my-life/
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-unlikely-story-of-a-change-is-gonna-come
https://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=100689&forumID=1&archive=0&pageID=1&r=954#bottom
https://www.nytimes.com/1958/06/13/archives/musicians-strike-spreads-on-coast-independents-hit-by-afm-film.html
Avelo’s “The Strike that Changed Disney Music”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBsGwNJ54-M
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Boudreaux
https://www.npr.org/2014/02/01/268995033/sam-cooke-and-the-song-that-almost-scared-him
https://blogs.loc.gov/now-see-hear/2021/02/on-the-recording-registry-a-change-is-gonna-come-1964/
https://pan-african-music.com/en/a-change-is-gonna-come-a-hymn-for-civil-rights/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFO_Records
https://www.facebook.com/WreckingCrewFilm/posts/on-this-date-june-3-1967-the-instrumental-tracks-for-never-my-love-by-the-associ/10157450423118023/

A listener letter sends the guys on the first of what could be many explorations into the backstories of some of the session musicians who made up the collective who would come to be known as “The Wrecking Crew.” Hear the story of the drummer who happened to be next door just in time to step into a powerful and historic musical moment.
 
 
SHOW NOTES:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Palmer
“I Hate My Generation” music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOsNsOhyG8I
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosimo_Matassa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aladdin_Records
Backbeat, the book: https://www.louisianamusicfactory.com/product/tony-scherman-backbeat-earl-palmers-story-book/
Modern Drummer feature: https://www.moderndrummer.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/md352cs.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelly_Manne
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/rock-hall-of-fame-drummer-earl-palmer-dead-at-84-254915/
https://www.adioslounge.com/sideman-spotlight-earl-palmer/
https://scottkfish.com/2016/01/23/earl-palmer-i-wasnt-quite-sure-what-i-wanted-to-do-with-my-life/
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-unlikely-story-of-a-change-is-gonna-come
https://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=100689&forumID=1&archive=0&pageID=1&r=954#bottom
https://www.nytimes.com/1958/06/13/archives/musicians-strike-spreads-on-coast-independents-hit-by-afm-film.html
Avelo’s “The Strike that Changed Disney Music”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBsGwNJ54-M
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Boudreaux
https://www.npr.org/2014/02/01/268995033/sam-cooke-and-the-song-that-almost-scared-him
https://blogs.loc.gov/now-see-hear/2021/02/on-the-recording-registry-a-change-is-gonna-come-1964/
https://pan-african-music.com/en/a-change-is-gonna-come-a-hymn-for-civil-rights/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFO_Records
https://www.facebook.com/WreckingCrewFilm/posts/on-this-date-june-3-1967-the-instrumental-tracks-for-never-my-love-by-the-associ/10157450423118023/

40 min