Wrecking Crew. I couldn’t remember the name, I was typing and searching for a couple of videos I wanted when you posted. They were the premier studio crew of that time, along with the group at the studio in Macon Georgia, who did the music for everybody you can think of. Their was a documentary about that a while back, the Macon bunch ended up with Duanne Allman joining them, and did backing tracks for Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Percy Sledge and basically everybody else you can think of. Bob Seger recorded there, the Eagles, even groups from England wanted that studio. There was a long list pf artists who all recorded albums in that studio, it had some sort of “mojo” everybody loved, plus the greatest rhythm section outside the Wrecking Crew.
For those who like both, how about Glenn Campbell and Roy Clark both playing the same guitar?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkOZ1nxENNk
As an entrepreneur, my business interfaces with the music industry. I partnered with a critically acclaimed mastering engineer on a few jazz albums he remastered and subsequently became friends.
My friend was a part of a weekly breakfast with Hal Blaine and other music “behind the scenes” personalities.
Funny story he told me about Ray Charles and the events that led to the agreement to remaster some of his albums.
When the price was agreed to, my mastering friend and record label president went to Ray’s house, they had a check that was also encoded in braille. When they handed the check to Ray, he “read” the check to confirm...then with a big smile on his face said, “Boys, we got a deal!”.
Later, my friend spent many days at Ray’s house to arrange and categorize all the tapes and find & use the real studio master tape for the remastering - not a 2nd or 3rd generation copy so prevalent at that time.