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  1. The Wrecking Crew was a loose collective of American session musicians based in Los Angeles whose services were employed for a great number of studio recordings in the 1960s and 1970s, including hundreds of top 40 hits. The musicians were not publicly recognized at the time, but were viewed with reverence by industry insiders.

  2. The Wrecking Crew is a 1968 American spy comedy film directed by Phil Karlson and starring Dean Martin as Matt Helm, along with Elke Sommer, Sharon Tate, Nancy Kwan, Nigel Green, and Tina Louise. It is the fourth and final film in the Matt Helm series, and is loosely based on the 1960 novel of the same name by Donald Hamilton .

  3. The Wrecking Crew: Directed by Phil Karlson. With Dean Martin, Elke Sommer, Sharon Tate, Nancy Kwan. Gold bullion worth USD 1 billion has been stolen from a hijacked train in Denmark. The main suspect is Count Massimo Contini.

  4. Music lovers will be astonished at the influence The Wrecking Crew wielded over rock and pop music in the 1960s and early 1970s. These unsung instrumentalists were the de-facto backing band...

  5. Mar 24, 2024 · The Wrecking Crew were a group of all-purpose, highly revered studio musicians who appeared on thousands of popular records – including massive hits such as “Mr. Tambourine Man”...

  6. A selection of tracks featuring the legendary session players known as The Wrecking Crew

  7. What is The Wrecking Crew? The Wrecking Crew was a group of studio musicians in Los Angeles in the 1960s who played on hits for the Beach Boys, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Sinatra, Sonny and Cher, Jan & Dean, The Monkees, Gary Lewis and the Playboys, Mamas and Papas, Tijuana Brass, Ricky Nelson, Johnny Rivers and were Phil Spector's Wall of Sound.

  8. Jan 13, 2015 · Behind their success was a group of studio musicians called The Wrecking Crew. What the Funk Brothers did for Motown…. The Wrecking Crew did, only bigger, for the West Coast Sound. Six...

  9. In Theaters At Home TV Shows. The son of guitarist Tommy Tedesco pays tribute to his late father and a core group of studio musicians who played on some of the biggest hits of the 1960s and '70s ...

    • Documentary, Music
  10. Mar 19, 2015 · A movie review of “The Wrecking Crew”: The story of the legendary studio musicians behind many of the hits of the 1960s through the early 1970s has taken decades to...