A buy named Tommy Tedesco played the guitar in the MASH theme song. He was a member of the “Wrecking Crew”, a group of LA based musicians who played on virtually EVERYTHING in the 1960s into the 1970s. From the Righteous Bros to Sonny & Cher to the Beach Boys to the Grassroots to many others to TV/radio commercials, they played on them all.
As for the TV show, it was good for the first five years or so until it became too preachy and you got St. Hawkeye and B.J. the Good.
The song lyrics surprised me and sad. Just curious, is the book any good?
Same here. The episodes I prefer are in the first few seasons, with Wayne Rogers, Larry Linville and McLean Stevenson.
My biggest problem with M*A*S*H as I got older was that it was very elitist. I know the military enforces a sharp line between officers and enlisted that the show doesn’t even uphold so well, but the enlisted in the show were depicted as somehow less than human. Radar needed actual god-like powers to be appreciated; it’s easy to overlook but he doesn’t have everything the commanding officer needs simply be anticipating his needs well, but is actually a fairly powerful psychic. He’s called “Radar” because he knows when casualties are coming in by helicopter before anyone else, and not because of sharp hearing.
Always loved the music to the theme song. The ending sort of doesn’t fit as it wraps up a moving song in a weird upbeat ending that sounds like it could have been taken from any tv sitcom theme song from the 70s.
I think Glen Campbell was part of The Weecking Crew.