Carol just posted this in her own group on Facebook.
OK you asked for it! >>>>>>SOME BASS HITS: SOME BASS HITS/CREDITS -- Was a well-known guitar player in fine Jazz before I ever did Studio Work, which I never wanted to do, but it helped me raise my Family........Was a popularly-hired Studio Guitar Player 1957 on and I never played bass until someone didn't show up at Capitol Records, my 6th year 1963 of guitar studio work, I liked to invent and play on bass more than the guitar stuff - it was more fun, plus you only carry in only ONE instrument, not 3-4-5 different guitars, Dano, mandolin etc.Some Of My Bass Recording Hits (from Union contracts, my log) - played only with a hard pick on flatwound strings (99% Fender Precision) with a felt-mute:
Whipped Cream - Herb Alpert
Spanish Eyes - Al Martino
Good Vibrations, Help Me Ronda, Sloop John B, I Get Around, Wouldn't It Be Nice, California Girls, God Only Knows, Pet Sounds LP, Heroes & Villains, Caroline No, Surf's Up, Child Is The Father Of The Man, Do You Like Worms?, Smile LP, Cabinessence, Fire sessions, I Was Made To Love Her, The Little Girl I Once Knew etc. (not any at Brian's home mid 60s tho') - Beach Boys
In The Heat Of The Night, I Don't Need No Doctor, America The Beautiful, Eleanor Rigby, Feel So Bad, I Chose To Sing The Blues, Here We Go Again, Don't Change On Me, Understanding etc. - Ray Charles
Alfie, Bang Bang etc. - Cher
Little Green Apples, Hickory Hollar - O.C. Smith
Goin' Out Of My Head/Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You medley, Hurt So Bad, Shangrila, When I Fall In Love, More, Theme From Summer Place etc. - Lettermen
Something Stupid - Frank and Nancy Sinatra
Boots, Sugar Town, You Only Live Twice Theme etc. - Nancy Sinatra
Feelin' Alright - Joe Cocker
The Way We Were - Barbra Streisand
Tell You You Love Her, Our Town, The World We Knew (Dano w/fuzz overdub LA) etc. - Frank Sinatra
Hold Me Thrill Me etc. - Mel Carter
You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You, Temptation etc. - Dean Martin
Candy Man, Have a Little Talk, Mr. Bojangles, Legend In My Own Time, and I'm Not Anyone - Sammy Davis Jr.
Godfather Theme, Love Story, Can't Take My Eyes Off of You (all with John Guerin on drums, Andy's usual recorded drummer) etc. - Andy Williams
Romeo & Juliet Theme (A Time For Love), Willow Weep For Me, Godfather Theme, Doc Severinson LP, and others - Henry Mancini
Mercy Mercy Mercy etc. - Buckinghams (all but their very 1st hit)
Indian Reservation etc. - Paul Revere & The Raiders
Natural Man, Love Is A Hurtin' Thing, Unforgettable, Good Thing, etc. - Lou Rawls
I Was Made To Love Her (which Stevie publicly acknowledges) - Stevie Wonder
What'd I Say, A Little Less Conversation, Suspicious Minds - Elvis Presley (note: Suspicious Minds is claimed by 4 others = 2 who claim they cut it in LA and 2 who said they cut it in Tenn.) etc. an example of how badly the credits are kept for the Elvis recordings: >>>On one CD - they've got Bill Black doing a session on a song Elvis recorded about three years AFTER Bill had died!<<<<<<
Bless The Beasts & The Children - Perry Botkin
Little GTO, Go Little Honda etc. - Hondels
Shaft Theme - movie theme & single MGM and a few cues w/J.J.Johnson
(credited on sheet music)
You Gave Me A Mountain, To Each His Own etc. - Frankie Laine
Games People Play, Happy Together, I'm Comin' Home Baby etc. - Mel Torme
Wichita Lineman, Galveston, Last Time I Saw Her Face, etc. - Glen Campbell
Someday We'll Be Together Again, Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Diana Ross (w/Temps, cut 1968 RCA, Paul Humphrey on drums released 1970, you hear my improvising on this after my long music part fell down on the take, this was supposed to be the "last we cut of the Suprmes"...all the Supremes hit tracks were cut in LA by LA studio musicians - from engineer Armin Steiner in Mix Magazine: "The Supremes used to stay at my house in the early 1960s when out here to record").
If I Could Build My Whole World Around You, Ain't Nothin' But The real Thing - Marvin Gaye & Tami Terrell (Armin Steiner's studio, LA)
Don't Pull Your Love Out On Me Baby (recut from demo, is the hit you hear on radio) - Hamilton, Joe Franks & Reynolds (ABC Paramount)
It Must Be Him etc. - Vickie Carr
12th Of Never, Alone Again, Memories, etc. - Johnny Mathis
Takes a Lot Of Lovin' - Tony Perkins
Tiny Bubbles etc. - Don Ho
When I Die - Motherlode (cut in Toronto Canada 1969)
Batman Theme, others - Marketts
Come Back When You Grow Up & others, Bobby Vee
I'm A Believer, Last Train to Clarksville etc. (first 2 lps per contracts, some later - Monkees
Homeward Bound, I Am A Rock, Scarborough Fair - Simon & Garfunkle
Summer Breeze - Seals & Croft
Call Me etc. - Chris Montez (played guitar on his early hit of "Let's Dance")
Straight Life, Honey etc. - Bobby Goldsboro
River Deep, Mountain High - Tina Turner (Phil Spector production)
This Diamond Ring, Just My Style etc. - Gary Lewis & Playboys
Soul And Inspiration, Ebb Tide - Righteous Bros. (played guitar on their hit of You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin')
Elusive Butterfly - Bob Lind
Hikky Burr - Bill Cosby 70's TV Theme/w/Quincy Jones (also single)
Chump Change and others w/Quincy Jones
Red Roses For A Blue Lady etc. - Vic Dana
Up A Lazy River (rock part) etc. - Bobby Darin (Earl Palmer on drums)
It's A Small World, etc. - Mike Curb & Congregation (Disney "World" ride theme also)
Light My Fire - Doors (I vaguely remember this date on the contract, is in the Doors book, mentioning the "female studio bassist" - 3-4 studio bassists recorded the Doors stuff, Larry Knechtel, Jerry Scheff etc.)
American Patrol - Duayne Eddy
In Crowd, Going To The GoGo etc. - Dobie Gray
Bonnie Jean - Ed Ames (guitar on his earlier hits - Sunrise Sunset, etc.)
Love Child, Baby Love, Stop In The Name Of Love, Back In My Arms Again, I'm Gonna Make You Love Me, You Can't Hurry Love, My World Is Empty Without You, Reflections, Love Is Here And Now You're Gone (2-basses, James Bond on the upright, I'm on elec. bass on "And Now You're Gone" fast triplets), You're All I Need To Get By etc. - Supremes
GIT On Broadway TV Show - Diana Ross/Temptations cut 1969 NBC, Al Lapin contractor, documented on video by trumpeter Ollie Mitchell, most of the Supremes tracks were recorded in LA.
Come Together - Count Basie
I Can't Help Myself, Bernadette, I'll Be There etc. - 4 Tops
Note: you can easily hear the LA-recorded Motown sounds in 4-Tops and Supremes recordings
Expecting To Fly etc. - Buffalo Springfield
Peace Of Mind, Out Of This World - Nancy Wilson (Shelly Manne drums)
Willow Weep For Me - Chad & Jeremy
This Is My Song, I Know a Place, a few more - Pet Clarke
Joe Williams Live LP - Fantasy Records
Big Man LP - Cannonball Adderly
Takes A Lot Of Lovin' - Tony Perkins
Northern Windows LP (now known as Northern Windows Plus) - Hampton Hawes Trio
Get Ready, I Second That Emotion - Temptations
My Guy - Mary Wells
Doo Ron Ron, And Then He Kissed Me - Crystals
Count Me In - Bobby Vee
Routers - Roll Over Beethoven
Yellow Balloon - Gary Zekeley
Midnite Confessions - Grass Roots
John The Baptist - Al Kooper
Yellow Days, A Time For Love - Tony Bennett
Never My Love - The Association
Baby The Rain Must Fall - Glen Yarborough
Home Of The Brave, Queen of The Road etc. - Jody Miller
David Axelrod LPs - Song of Innocence, Songs of Experience, some Prunes stuff and something "Oath" etc.
Don Randi Quest album
Reelin' With The Feelin' - Chas. Kynard organ funk-jazz
"Big Man" Broadway lp - Cannonball Adderly/Joe Williams
You Made Me So Very Happy - Brenda Holloway
Sixteen Tons (60s recut, you hear now on the radio) and others
- Tenn. Ernie Ford
Cascades (John Gummoe) Rhythm of The Rain
The Zodiac - Cosmic Sounds
Do You Love Me - Frank Wilson Motown Soul hit of '65 in the UK, as spoken about by Frank Wilson on a recent UK broadcast.
This Motown hit in the UK orig. record was auctioned off at $41,700, DO YOU LOVE ME - Frank Wilson, who on a recent broadcast said it was "Carol Kaye" on bass on this one - he also spoke about their Motown-Hollywood office established 1963 - article in Billboard about this).
Recent ones: Matthew Sweet - In Reverse, Frank Black - Fast Man Raiderman, Frummenn - Jakob Magnusson & Stuomenn
And many other hit recordings with: Cher, April & Nino, Spiral
Staircase, Beach Boys, Lou Rawls, Association, Del Shannon, Bobby Vee, Gary Puckett & Union Gap, Monkees, First Edition, We 3, Dino-Desi-Billy, Dick & Dee Dee, Soulstrings, Hollywood Strings, PF Sloan, Van Dyke Parkes, Brenda Holloway, Paris Sisters, Judd & Lisa, Blossoms, New Seekers, Wayne Newton, Vic Dana, Timi Yuro, Deep 6, Harper's Bazaar, Gary Usher, Liverpool 5, Animals, Invinceables, Buckinghams, Young Americans, John Davidson, Mel Taylor, Quincy Jones, Rod McDuen, Harry Nilsson, Grass Roots, T-Bones, Marketts, Bobby Paris, Doodletown Pipers, John Gary, Vogues, Hedge & Donna, Bobby Sherman, Isley Bros.,
Frankie Avalon, Gogos, Clydie King, Bobby Rydell, Peter & Gordon, Cass Elliot, Goodtime Singers, Billy Storm, Kenny Rogers, Bruce & Terry, Bobby Sheen, Barbara Mclain, Terry Melchior, Ripchords, Hollyridge Strings, Young Folk, Jericho Brown, Kim Weston, Al Kooper, Phil Spector's Prod's (a few on bass, mostly guitar on his dates), Trombones Unlimited, Osmond Bros. (all their early 70s hits), Michelle Lee, Monk Higgins,
Robert Goulet, Judy Carne, Hugo Montenegro, Dody Stevens, Darlene Love, Jody Daniels, Lola Falana, Ralke Strings, Gilbert Becaud, 4 Preps, Living Strings, Jean King, Fred Astaire, Eddie Beal, Ray Anthony, Little Joe, Georgia Carr, Buckshots, Billy Mize, 4 Freshmen, Dorsey Burnett, Ray Conniff, Nelson Riddle, Ian Whitcomb, Billy Strange, Oopie McCurn, Winona Carr, Back Porch Majority, Ernie Andrews, Little Richard, Tony Martin, Billy May, Odetta, King Family, Stan Freberg, Johnny Rivers, Tom & John Bahler, Jimmie Griffin, Annette Funicello, Gloria Lynne,
Wilder Bros., John Cole, Willie John, Irma Thomas, Donna Loren, Randy Sparks, Tutti's Tombones, Beau Brummels, Jerry Vale, Claudine Longet, Sue Raney, Ella Fitzgerald, Bing Crosby, Vic Damone, Billy Eckstein, Buffalo Springfield, Eartha Kitt, Cascades, Ann-Margaret, Doris Day, Patti Page, Bill Medley,
Dee Irvin, Johnny Otis, Coasters, Elmer Bernstein, Stevie Wonder, Bobby Adano, Honey Bees, Bonnie Guitar, Don Crawford, Stu Phillips, Joey Paige, Johnny Guitar Watson, Sims Twins, Baker Knight, Tyrone & Jerome, Fran Jeffies, Noel Harris, Meredith McCrea, Joey Paige, Barry Young, Piccolo Pupa, Jackie & Gayle, Johnny Ray, Liza Minelli, Peter & Gordon, Billy Preston, Joannie Sommers, Curtis Mayfield, Dean Martin, Eddie Arnold, Roger Miller, Dusty Springfield, Roger Williams, Shirley Bassey, Adam West, Neil Diamond, Kingston Trio, Lorne Greene, Kay Starr,
Alan Copeland, Margaret Whiting, Jo Stafford, Richard Roundtree, Gene McDaniels, Don Ellis, Eddy Fisher, David Rose, Willie Bobo, George Burns, Electric Prunes, Bettye Swan, Robie Porter, Elvis Presley, Kelly Gordon, Bob Crosby, Paul Anka, Laurindo Almeida, Gogi Grant, Jerry Butler, Hollies, Mahalia Jackson (last album),
Reader's Digest, Charlie Wright's 110th St. Band, Mills Bros, Bud Shank, Gabor Szabor, Sally Fields, Pet Clarke, Barbara NcNair, Duayne Eddy, Rudy Vallee, Brook Benton, Lee Burnett, Dick Smothers, Johnny Burnette, Nellie Lutcher, Bobby Sands, Kip Tyler, Kim Fowley, Wynonna Carr, Toni Harper, Guy Mitchell, Mondernaires, Soupy Sales, Louie Jordan, Ray Anthony, Jan & Dean, Damita Jo, Bishops, Chuck & Joe, Ray Conniff, Tommy Oliver, Sandy Nelson, Keely Smith, 5th Dimension, Peter-Paul-Mary, Marty Robbins, Peggy Lee, Johnny Ray, Margaret Whiting,
Tommy Leonetti, Berl Davis, Patti Duke, Freddie Cannon, Fred Smith, Frankie Ortega, Johnny Magnus, Al Martino, Mike Lloyd productions (all 60s), Don Costa, J.J. Johnson, Dee Irwin, Johnny Manne Singers, Irma Thomas, Billy Daniels, Lalo Schifrin, Tony Bruno, Arthur Prysock, Jimmie Rodgers, John Klemmer, Santo & Johnny, Jerry Vail, Ferrante & Teicher, Eddie Hodges, Hub Cap & The Wheels, Honey Bees, Rosie Grier, Dymiktri Tiomkin, Fess Parker, Les Poupees De Paris, Don Robertson, Keith Allison, Bonnie & The Treasures, Percy Faith, Jimmie Lewis, Frankie Randall, Joe Reisman, Michel LeGrand, Tiny Tim, Andy Russell,
Group Therapy, Morgana King, Kitty Lester, Marvelettes, Miracles, all H. B Barnum 60s productions, Deanna Martin, Esquival, Marketts, Bobby Sands, Hollywood Strings, Rouvan, Jody Miller, Leslie Gore, George Chikaris, Trombones Unlimited, Pat Boone, Janis Ian, Johnny Otis, Vera Kilpatrick, Young Folk, Bobby Sands, Dynatones, Troy Donahue, Barry Young, Marty Robbins, Peter Ford, Dean Holly, Bonnie Guitar, Blood Bros., John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Bishops, Ken Clarke, C. C. Jones,
Carroll Connors, The Girlfriends, Vince Edwards, Hollyridge Singers, Vickie Carr, Tigers, Jewel Akens, Lorne Greene, Tom Vaughn, Tigers, Little Joe, Gary Bowman, Dallas Smith, Billy Mize, Buckshots, Georgia Carr, Hanna-Barbera Prod's, Pete King, Eddie Hodges, Dynatones, Barbara McNair, Vince Edwards, Troy Donahue, Sun Rays, Peter Ford, Jack Nitzchie prod's, Barry Young, Platters, Eddie Beal, Cookie Jackson, Mae West, Tammy Grimes, Joanie Camp, Bobby Sherman, Shacklefords, Barry Young, Gene Daniels, Gene Ammons, Della Reese, Stan Kenton, Don Ellis, Howard Roberts, Joe Pass, Jimmy Smith, Tom Scott, Tom Vaughn, Charles Kynard, Cannonball Adderly, and many more.....
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2009 List of Foreign Royalties paid by the Album names - this is a relatively new thing reported from Japan and The Netherlands, and represents probably less than 1% of the albums of ours out there in those countries, but at least it's a start:
Spotlight On Bobby Darin - Bobby Darin
16 Most Requested Songs - Robert Goulet
Greatest Hits Vols. 1 and 2 - Billy Joel
The Very Best of Frank Sinatra
Made In USA Beach Boys
Pet Sounds "
Super Best "
Good Vibrations "
Endless Summer "
The Ultimate Collection - Billy Joel
Collections - Frank Sinatra
My Way, the Best of Frank Sinatra
New York New York - Frank Sinatra
Simply The Best - Tina Turner
20 of The Best - Shirley Bassey
California Feelin' - The Best of The Beach Boys
The Very Best of Cher
Sounds of Summer: Very Best - Beach Boys
Greatest Hits 1962-1965 - Beach Boys
Sugartown - Nancy Sinatra
How Does That Grab You, Darlin - Nancy Sinatra
Something Stupid - Nancy Sinatra
and of course many double entries, what that represents I don't know.
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Ditial Royalties (a few dollars) paid on:
Holy Are You - Elec. Prunes used on The Captain
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AFM & SAG-AFTRA royalties on:
Shirley Bassey: 20 of the Best album
Beach Boys: Calif. Feeling (Best of BBs), Endless Summer, Golden Hits, Good Vibrations, Greatest Hits 1962-1965, Made In USA, Pet Sounds, Sounds of Summer Very Best, Summer Days (and Summer Nights), Wouldn't It Be Nice albums. God Only Knows, Good Vibrations, Wouldn't It Be Nice, Sloop John B.
BJ Thomas Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head
Byrds: Greatest Hits, Greatest Hits - 18 Classics
Cale, J..: Anyway The Wind Blows: The Anthology
Charles, Ray: Genius And Soul -n 50th Anniversary
Carter, Mel Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me
Darin, Bobby: As Log As I'm Singing, The Bobby Darin Collection
Cocker, Joe Feelin' Alright
Grass Roots Midnight Confessions
Gore, Lesley: Golden Hits
Joel, Billy: Cold Spring Harbor, The Ultimate Collection
Lewis, Gary and the Playboys This Diamond Ring
O'Jays, The: Lipstick Traces (On a Cigarette) album
Presley, Elvis: Change of Habit
Righteous Brothers: Anthology '62-74, Best Collection, Unchained Melody, Unchained Melodies, Unchained Melody (Very Best Of), You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling
Schrifrin, Lalo Danube Incide
Sinatra, Frank: Classic Sinatra, Collection, Complete Capitol Singles Collection, Complete Reprise Studio Recordings, Supernow;
How Insensitive, Drinking Again, The World We Knew (Over and Over)
Sinatra, Frank & Nancy: Something Stupid
Sonny & Cher: Beat Goes On
Soundtrack: Ghost
Thomas, B.J.: Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head
Turner, Tina: All the Best, Simply The Best
Valens, Ritchie La Bamba, Donna, Come On Let's Go
Whispers: 30th Anniversary Anthology
White, Barry: All Time Greatest Hits
Wilson, Nancy: Ballads, Blues & Big Bands
All UNION, Local 47 Hollywood which was the capital of Recording in those busy late 50s-60s, early 70s years. All of us Studio Musicians, known as that since 1930s, in Union known as that most were from big-bands experiences and/or Jazz group experiences for many years before doing Studio Work, strings from Philharmonic 350-400 of us got our own Work Calls which Union protected, made sure for our Pensions, great pay, and some Royalties also...Local 47 in those Times had 18,000+ Top Experienced Professional Members:
