DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

The Wrecking Crew! / Magnolia Pictures, Lunchbox Entertainment ; directed by Denny Tedesco ; producers, Suzie Greene Tedesco [and six others].

Los Angeles, CA : Magnolia Home Entertainment, [2015]

2 videodiscs (approximately 102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

NTSC

video file DVD video region 1

Profiles the group of Los Angeles studio musicians known as the Wrecking Crew--featuring Tommy Tedesco, guitar, Hal Blaine, Earl Palmer, drums, Carol Kaye, Joe Osborne, bass--who played on many rock and pop hits during the sixties. Gifted, versatile, and possessing the knack for turning a simple tune into something memorable, the Wrecking Crew were the players who turned the Wall of Sound in Phil Spector's head into a reality, and helped Brian Wilson create the musical vision that would redefine California pop. The Wrecking Crew also backed up everyone from Sonny and Cher, the Mamas and the Papas and the Monkees to Herb Alpert, Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra, but while they became legends in the music business, they were all but unknown to the millions of people who made their records some of the biggest hits of the day. Filmmaker Denny Tedesco--whose father Tommy was a member of the Wrecking Crew and perhaps the most recorded guitarist in history--brings the free-wheeling story of the most famous musicians you've never heard of to the screen. Bonus disc includes interviews with guitarists, various performing artists, drummers/percussionists, producers/arrangers, engineers, bassists, pianists, and saxophonists associated with the Wrecking Crew.

Rating: PG.

Wrecking Crew (Musical group)

Rock musicians -- United States -- Biography.

Rock music -- California -- Los Angeles -- 1961-1970 -- History and criticism.

Sound recording industry -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century.

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Feature films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Biographical films.

Tedesco, Denny, 1961- film director.

Tedesco, Suzie Greene, film producer.

Kaye, Carol, on-screen particiant.

Johnson, Plas, on-screen participant.

Tedesco, Tommy, on-screen participant.

Blaine, Hal, on-screen participant.

Lunch Box Entertainment, production company.

Magnolia Home Entertainment (Firm), film distributor.

Originally produced in 2008.

Special features: Deleted scenes; song credits; dedications; trailer.

Editor, Claire Scanlon ; director of photography, Rodney Taylor, Trish Govoni.

Invterviews with: Carol Kaye, Plas Johnson, Tommy Tedesco, Hal Baline, Brian Wilson, Glen Campbell, Dick Clark, Cher, Herb Alpert, Nance Sinatra, Micky Dolenz, Carol Kaye, Jimmy Webb, Bones How, Al Casey, Earl Palmer, Larry Levine.

Narrator: Denny Tedesco.

DVD; NTSC, region 1; widescreen 1.78:1; Dolby Digital 5.1.

In English, with optional English SDH, Spanish, and French subtitles.

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