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Music: The 5th Dimension, The Association, The Beach Boys, The Byrds, Glen Campbell, Captain and Tennille, The Carpenters, Cher, The Chipmunks, Nat King Cole, Sam Cooke, The Crystals, Bobby Day, The Defenders, Shelley Fabares, Richard Harris, Jan and Dean, Gary Lewis and the Playboys, Barry McGuire, The Mamas and The Papas, Henry Mancini, The Marketts, Dean Martin, Scott McKenzie, The Monkees, Chris Montez, Ricky Nelson, Wayne Newton, Jack Nitzsche, Harry Nilsson, The Partridge Family, Elvis Presley, Paul Revere and The Raiders, The Righteous Brothers, The Rip Chords, Johnny Rivers, Tommy Roe, The Ronettes, The Routers, The Sandpipers, Lalo Schifrin, Simon and Garfunkel, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Sinatra, Sonny and Cher, T-Bones, Nino Tempo and April Stevens, Deep Purple, Herb Alpert and The Tijuana Brass, Ike and Tina Turner, Ritchie Valens, Bobby Vee, The Ventures, Mason Williams, Roger Williams.

The Wrecking Crew were a group of Studio Musicians in Los Angeles in the 60s who played on hits for The Beach Boys, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Sonny and Cher, Jan & Dean, The Monkees, Gary Lewis and the Playboys, Mamas and The Papas, Herb Alpert and The Tijuana Brass, Ricky Nelson, Johnny Rivers, Phil Spector's Wall of Sound and many more. The amount of work that they were involved in was tremendous. They were also involved in groups that I like to call, The Milli Vanilli's of the day. A producer would get the guys in and lay down some instrumental tracks. If it became a hit, they would record an album and put a group together to go on the road. This happened many times with groups like The Marketts, Routers, and T-Bones. The next day they would do the same thing and call it another name. Same musicians, but different group Name. At the time the record industry was primarily in New York, London and Detroit in the late 50's and early 60s. Then there was a surge towards the mid-60s that pushed the recording to the west Coast. So these musicians were recording around the clock for a good 8 years. It's hey day for this group was in 1967 when the charts turned to the west.