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Bill Pitman

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William Keith "Bill" Pitman (born February 12, 1920) is an American guitarist and session musician. [1]

137 relations: A Taste of Honey (song), A-side and B-side, Academy Awards, Adam-12, Al Hendrickson, All Media Network, Allan Reuss, AllMusic, American Federation of Musicians, Americans, Art Pepper, Baja Marimba Band, Banjo, Bass guitar, Be My Baby, Belleville, New Jersey, Blue Hawaii, Bobby Vee, Bonanza, Buddy Childers, Buddy DeFranco, Buddy Rich, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, California, California Institute of the Arts, Capitol Records, CBS Columbia Square, Charlie Christian, Charlie Parker, Columbia Records, Dave Grusin, Deep Purple (song), Dirty Dancing, Do You Know the Way to San Jose, Eddie Bert, Eddie Lang, Ernie Freeman, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, Fender Telecaster, Fender Twin, Frank Sinatra, Fretboard Journal, Gibson ES-330, Gibson ES-335, Gold Star Studios, Goldmine (magazine), Good Vibrations, Goodbye, Columbus (film), Goodfellas, ..., Great Depression, Guitar, Hal Blaine, Herb Alpert, Hey Little Cobra, Howard Roberts, Ironside (1967 TV series), Jack Nitzsche, Jam session, Jan and Dean, Jazz, Jerry Cole, John D'Angelico, Johnny Mandel, La Quinta, California, Larry Knechtel, Laurindo Almeida, Leon Russell, Let's Go (Pony), Los Angeles, Mandolin, Manhattan, Marty Paich, MASH (film), Mel Bay, Mel Tormé, Metre (music), Mr. Tambourine Man, NAMM Oral History Program, Nancy Sinatra, NBC, Neal Conan, Nino Tempo & April Stevens, NPR, Out of Limits, Paint Your Wagon (film), Peggy Lee, Pet Sounds, Phil Spector, Pop music, Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head, Red Callender, Rock and roll, Rockefeller Center, Roger McGuinn, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Rusty Draper, Session musician, Shelly Manne, Shorty Rogers, Sight-reading, Star Trek, Strangers in the Night, Surf City (song), Terry Melcher, The Beach Boys, The Byrds, The Deputy (TV series), The Everly Brothers, The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour, The Little Old Lady (from Pasadena), The Lonely Bull, The Lowest, The Mamas & the Papas, The Marketts, The Night Has a Thousand Eyes (song), The Omega Man, The Parallax View, The Rip Chords, The Roger Miller Show, The Ronettes, The Routers, The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour, The Wild Wild West, The Wrecking Crew (2008 film), The Wrecking Crew (music), These Boots Are Made for Walkin', Thomas Dunne Books, To Know Him Is to Love Him, Tommy Tedesco, Top 40, Torn Curtain, Twelve-string guitar, Vintage Guitar (magazine), Wall of Sound, World War II, 52nd Street (Manhattan). Expand index (87 more) »

A Taste of Honey (song)

"A Taste of Honey" is a pop standard written by Bobby Scott and Ric Marlow.

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A-side and B-side

The terms A-side and B-side refer to the two sides of 78, 45, and 33 1/3 rpm phonograph records, or cassettes, whether singles, extended plays (EPs), or long-playing (LP) records.

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.

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Adam-12

Adam-12 is a television police procedural drama that follows Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers Pete Malloy and Jim Reed as they ride the streets of Los Angeles in their patrol unit 1-Adam-12.

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Al Hendrickson

Alton Reynolds Hendrickson (May 10, 1920 – July 19, 2007) was an American jazz guitarist.

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All Media Network

All Media Network (formerly All Media Guide (AMG) and AllRovi) is an American company that owns and maintains AllMusic, AllMovie, AllGame (until its closure in 2014), SideReel and Celebified.

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Allan Reuss

Allan Reuss (June 15, 1915 – June 4, 1988) was an American jazz guitarist.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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American Federation of Musicians

The American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada (AFM/AFofM) is a 501(c)(5) labor union representing professional musicians in the United States and Canada.

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Americans

Americans are citizens of the United States of America.

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Art Pepper

Arthur Edward Pepper Jr. (September 1, 1925 – June 15, 1982) was an American alto saxophonist and very occasional tenor saxophonist and clarinetist.

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Baja Marimba Band

The Baja Marimba Band was a musical group led by marimba player Julius Wechter.

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Banjo

The banjo is a four-, five- or six-stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity as a resonator, called the head.

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Bass guitar

The bass guitar (also known as electric bass, or bass) is a stringed instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

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Be My Baby

"Be My Baby" is a song written by Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich, and Phil Spector.

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Belleville, New Jersey

Belleville (French: "Belle ville" meaning "Beautiful city / town") is a township in Essex County, New Jersey, United States.

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Blue Hawaii

Blue Hawaii is a 1961 American musical romantic comedy film set in the state of Hawaii and starring Elvis Presley.

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Bobby Vee

Robert Thomas Velline (April 30, 1943 – October 24, 2016), known professionally as Bobby Vee, was an American singer, songwriter and musician who was a teen idol in the early 1960s and also appeared in films.

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Bonanza

Bonanza is an NBC television western series that ran from 1959 to 1973.

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Buddy Childers

Marion "Buddy" Childers (February 12, 1926 – May 24, 2007) was an American jazz trumpeter, composer and ensemble leader.

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Buddy DeFranco

Boniface Ferdinand Leonard "Buddy" DeFranco (February 17, 1923 – December 24, 2014) was an Italian American jazz clarinet player.

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Buddy Rich

Bernard "Buddy" Rich (September 30, 1917 – April 2, 1987) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader.

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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a 1969 American Western film directed by George Roy Hill and written by William Goldman (who won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film).

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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California Institute of the Arts

The California Institute of the Arts, known by its nickname CalArts, is a private university located in Valencia, California.

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Capitol Records

Capitol Records, Inc. is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group through its Capitol Music Group imprint.

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CBS Columbia Square

CBS Columbia Square, located at 6121 Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, was the home of CBS's Los Angeles radio and television operations from 1938 until 2007.

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Charlie Christian

Charles Henry Christian (July 29, 1916 – March 2, 1942) was an American swing and jazz guitarist.

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Charlie Parker

Charles Parker Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955), also known as Yardbird and Bird, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.

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Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.

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Dave Grusin

Robert David Grusin (born June 26, 1934) is an American composer, arranger, producer, and pianist.

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Deep Purple (song)

"Deep Purple" was the biggest hit written by pianist Peter DeRose, who broadcast, 1923 to 1939, with May Singhi as "The Sweethearts of the Air" on the NBC radio network.

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Dirty Dancing

Dirty Dancing is a 1987 American romantic drama dance film written by Eleanor Bergstein, directed by Emile Ardolino and starring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey in the lead roles, and featuring Cynthia Rhodes and Jerry Orbach.

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Do You Know the Way to San Jose

"Do You Know the Way to San Jose" is a 1968 popular song written and composed for singer Dionne Warwick by Burt Bacharach.

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Eddie Bert

Edward Joseph Bertolatus (May 16, 1922 – September 27, 2012), better known as Eddie Bert, was an American jazz trombonist.

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Eddie Lang

Eddie Lang (October 25, 1902 – March 26, 1933) is known as the father of jazz guitar.

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Ernie Freeman

Ernest Aaron "Ernie" Freeman (August 16, 1922 – May 16, 1981) was an American pianist, organist, bandleader, and arranger.

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Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Fast Times at Ridgemont High is a 1982 American coming-of-age comedy film directed by Amy Heckerling and written by Cameron Crowe, adapted from his 1981 book of the same name.

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Fender Musical Instruments Corporation

Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (FMIC), commonly referred to simply as Fender, is an American manufacturer of stringed instruments and amplifiers.

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Fender Telecaster

The Fender Telecaster, colloquially known as the Tele, is the world's first commercially successfulLes Paul had built a prototype solid body electric guitar known as "The Log" in the 1940s, but could not market his invention.

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Fender Twin

The Fender Twin is a guitar amplifier made by Fender Musical Instruments Corporation.

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Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer, actor, and producer who was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century.

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Fretboard Journal

The Fretboard Journal is a keepsake magazine for guitar, mandolin, and stringed instrument players.

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Gibson ES-330

The Gibson ES-330 is a thinline hollow-body electric guitar model produced by the Gibson Guitar Corporation.

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Gibson ES-335

The Gibson ES-335 is the world's first commercial thinline archtop semi-acoustic electric guitar (also known as "semi-hollowbody" or "thinline").

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Gold Star Studios

Gold Star Studios was a major independent recording studio located in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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Goldmine (magazine)

Goldmine, established in September 1974, by founder Brian Bukantis out of Fraser Michigan is an American magazine that focuses on the collectors' market for records, tapes, CDs, and music-related memorabilia.

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Good Vibrations

"Good Vibrations" is a song composed by Brian Wilson with words by Mike Love for the American rock band the Beach Boys, of which both were members.

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Goodbye, Columbus (film)

Goodbye, Columbus is a 1969 American romantic comedy-drama film starring Richard Benjamin and Ali MacGraw, directed by Larry Peerce and based on the novella of the same name by Philip Roth.

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Goodfellas

Goodfellas (stylized as GoodFellas) is a 1990 American crime film directed by Martin Scorsese.

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Great Depression

The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States.

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Guitar

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.

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Hal Blaine

Hal Blaine (born Harold Simon Belsky; February 5, 1929) is an American drummer and session musician.

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Herb Alpert

Herb Alpert (born March 31, 1935) is an American jazz musician most associated with the group variously known as Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass, or TJB.

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Hey Little Cobra

"Hey Little Cobra" is a song released in 1963 by The Rip Chords.

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Howard Roberts

Howard Roberts (October 2, 1929 – June 28, 1992) was an American jazz guitarist, educator, and session musician.

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Ironside (1967 TV series)

Ironside is an American television crime drama that aired on NBC over 8 seasons from 1967 to 1975.

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Jack Nitzsche

Bernard Alfred Nitzsche (22 April 1937 – 25 August 2000) known by pen name Jack Nitsche, was an American musician, arranger, songwriter, record producer and film score composer.

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Jam session

A jam session is a relatively informal musical event, process, or activity where musicians, typically instrumentalists, play improvised solos and vamp on tunes, songs and chord progressions.

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Jan and Dean

Jan and Dean were an American rock duo consisting of William Jan Berry (April 3, 1941 – March 26, 2004) and Dean Ormsby Torrence (born March 10, 1940).

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Jerry Cole

Jerry Cole (born Jerald Kolbrak; September 23, 1939 – May 28, 2008) was an American guitarist who recorded under his own name, under various budget album pseudonyms and as an uncredited session musician.

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John D'Angelico

John D’Angelico (1905–1964) was a luthier from New York City, noted for his handmade archtop guitars and mandolins.

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Johnny Mandel

John Alfred "Johnny" Mandel (born November 23, 1925) is a Grammy and Oscar-winning American composer and arranger of popular songs, film music and jazz.

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La Quinta, California

La Quinta is a resort city in Riverside County, California, United States, specifically in the Coachella Valley between Indian Wells and Indio.

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Larry Knechtel

Lawrence William "Larry" Knechtel (August 4, 1940 – August 20, 2009) was an American keyboard player and bassist, best known as a member of the Wrecking Crew, a collection of Los Angeles-based session musicians who worked with such renowned artists as Simon & Garfunkel, Duane Eddy, the Beach Boys, the Mamas & the Papas, the Monkees, the Partridge Family, the Doors, the Grass Roots, Jerry Garcia, and Elvis Presley, and as a member of the 1970s band Bread.

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Laurindo Almeida

Laurindo Almeida (September 2, 1917 – July 26, 1995) was a Brazilian virtuoso guitarist and composer who made many recordings of enduring impact in classical, jazz and Latin genres.

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Leon Russell

Leon Russell (born Claude Russell Bridges; April 2, 1942 – November 13, 2016) was an American musician and songwriter who was involved with numerous bestselling pop music records over the course of his 60-year career.

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Let's Go (Pony)

Let's Go (Pony) is a 1962 song by The Routers.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Mandolin

A mandolin (mandolino; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is usually plucked with a plectrum or "pick".

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Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, and its historical birthplace.

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Marty Paich

Martin Louis Paich (January 23, 1925 – August 12, 1995) was an American pianist, composer, arranger, record producer, music director, and conductor.

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MASH (film)

MASH (stylized as M*A*S*H on the poster art) is a 1970 American satirical black comedy war film directed by Robert Altman and written by Ring Lardner, Jr., based on Richard Hooker's novel MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors.

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Mel Bay

Mel Bay (February 25, 1913 – May 14, 1997) was a musician and publisher best known for his series of music education books.

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Mel Tormé

Melvin Howard Tormé (September 13, 1925 – June 5, 1999), nicknamed The Velvet Fog, was an American musician, best known as a singer of jazz standards.

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Metre (music)

In music, metre (Am. meter) refers to the regularly recurring patterns and accents such as bars and beats.

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Mr. Tambourine Man

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NAMM Oral History Program

The NAMM Oral History Program was created and is funded by NAMM, the International Association of Music Products.

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Nancy Sinatra

Nancy Sandra Sinatra (born June 8, 1940) is an American singer and actress.

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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Neal Conan

Neal Conan (born November 1949) is an American radio journalist, producer, editor, and correspondent.

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Nino Tempo & April Stevens

Nino Tempo & April Stevens (Antonino and Carol Vincinette LoTempio) are a brother and sister singing act from Niagara Falls, New York.

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NPR

National Public Radio (usually shortened to NPR, stylized as npr) is an American privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization based in Washington, D.C. It serves as a national syndicator to a network of over 1,000 public radio stations in the United States.

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Out of Limits

"Out of Limits" is a 1963 surf rock instrumental piece written by Michael Z. Gordon and performed by The Marketts.

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Paint Your Wagon (film)

Paint Your Wagon is a 1969 Western musical film starring Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, and Jean Seberg.

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Peggy Lee

Norma Deloris Egstrom (May 26, 1920 – January 21, 2002) known professionally as Peggy Lee, was an American jazz and popular music singer, songwriter, composer, and actress, in a career spanning six decades.

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Pet Sounds

Pet Sounds is the eleventh studio album by American rock band the Beach Boys, released on May 16, 1966.

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Phil Spector

Phillip Harvey Spector (born Harvey Phillip Spector, December 26, 1939) is an American record producer, musician, and songwriter who developed the Wall of Sound, a music production formula he described as a "Wagnerian" approach to rock and roll.

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Pop music

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1950s.

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Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head

"Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" is a song written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach for the 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

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Red Callender

George Sylvester "Red" Callender (March 6, 1916 – March 8, 1992) was an American string bass and tuba player.

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Rock and roll

Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll or rock 'n' roll) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950sJim Dawson and Steve Propes, What Was the First Rock'n'Roll Record (1992),.

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Rockefeller Center

Rockefeller Center is a large complex consisting of 19 commercial buildings covering between 48th and 51st Streets, facing Fifth Avenue, in New York City.

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Roger McGuinn

James Roger McGuinn (born James Joseph McGuinn III; July 13, 1942), known professionally as Roger McGuinn and previously as Jim McGuinn, is an American musician.

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Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (often simply referred to as Laugh-In) is an American sketch comedy television program that ran for 140 episodes from January 22, 1968, to March 12, 1973, on the NBC television network.

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Rusty Draper

Farrell Haliday "Rusty" Draper (January 25, 1923 – March 28, 2003) was an American country and pop singer who achieved his greatest success in the 1950s.

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Session musician

Session musicians, studio musicians, or backing musicians are musicians hired to perform in recording sessions or live performances.

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Shelly Manne

Sheldon "Shelly" Manne (June 11, 1920 – September 26, 1984), was an American jazz drummer.

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Shorty Rogers

Milton "Shorty" Rogers (April 14, 1924 – November 7, 1994) was one of the principal creators of West Coast jazz.

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Sight-reading

Sight-reading, also called a prima vista (Italian meaning "at first sight"), is the reading and performing of a piece of music or song in music notation that the performer has not seen before.

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Star Trek

Star Trek is an American media franchise based on the science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry.

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Strangers in the Night

"Strangers in the Night" is a song credited to Bert Kaempfert with English lyrics by Charles Singleton and Eddie Snyder.

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Surf City (song)

"Surf City" is a song written by Brian Wilson and Jan Berry about a fictitious surf spot where there are "two girls for every boy." It was first recorded and made popular by the American duo Jan and Dean in 1963, and their single became the first surf song to become a national number-one hit.

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Terry Melcher

Terrence Paul Melcher (born Terrence Paul Jorden, February 8, 1942 – November 19, 2004) was an American musician and record producer who was instrumental in shaping the 1960s California Sound and folk rock movements, particularly during the nascent counterculture era.

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The Beach Boys

The Beach Boys are an American rock band formed in Hawthorne, California, in 1961.

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The Byrds

The Byrds were an American rock band, formed in Los Angeles, California in 1964.

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The Deputy (TV series)

The Deputy is an American western series that aired on NBC from 1959 to 1961 The series stars Henry Fonda as Chief Marshal Simon Fry of the Arizona Territory and Allen Case as Deputy Clay McCord, a storekeeper who tried to avoid using a gun.

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The Everly Brothers

The Everly Brothers were an American country-influenced rock and roll duo, known for steel-string acoustic guitar playing and close harmony singing.

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The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour

The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour is an American network television music and comedy variety show hosted by singer Glen Campbell from January 1969 through June 1972 on CBS.

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The Little Old Lady (from Pasadena)

"The Little Old Lady (from Pasadena)" is a song written by Don Altfeld, Jan Berry and Roger Christian, and recorded by 1960s American pop singers, Jan and Dean.

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The Lonely Bull

"The Lonely Bull (El Toro Solitario)" is a song by Sol Lake recorded by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass among others.

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The Lowest

The Lowest is an album by bassist and tubist Red Callender, recorded for the MetroJazz label in 1958.

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The Mamas & the Papas

The Mamas & the Papas were a Canadian-American folk rock vocal group who recorded and performed from 1965 to 1968.

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The Marketts

The Marketts were an American instrumental pop group, formed in January 1961 in Hollywood, California, by Michael Z. Gordon.

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The Night Has a Thousand Eyes (song)

"The Night Has a Thousand Eyes" is a song written by Benjamin Weisman, Dorothy Wayne, and Marilyn Garrett.

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The Omega Man

The Omega Man (stylized as The Ωmega Man) is a 1971 American science-fiction film directed by Boris Sagal and starring Charlton Heston as a survivor of a global pandemic.

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The Parallax View

The Parallax View is a 1974 American political thriller film directed and produced by Alan J. Pakula, and starring Warren Beatty, Hume Cronyn, William Daniels and Paula Prentiss.

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The Rip Chords

The Rip Chords were an early-1960s American vocal group, originally known as the Opposites, composed of Phil Stewart and Ernie Bringas.

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The Roger Miller Show

The Roger Miller Show is an American music variety television show hosted by Roger Miller.

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The Ronettes

The Ronettes were an American girl group from New York City.

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The Routers

The Routers were an American instrumental group in the early 1960s.

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The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour

The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour is an American variety show starring American pop-singer Cher and her husband Sonny Bono.

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The Wild Wild West

The Wild Wild West is an American Science Fiction/Spy/Western television series that ran on the CBS television network for four seasons (104 episodes) from September 17, 1965, to April 4, 1969.

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The Wrecking Crew (2008 film)

The Wrecking Crew is a 2008 American documentary film directed by Denny Tedesco.

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The Wrecking Crew (music)

The Wrecking Crew was a loose collective of session musicians based in Los Angeles whose services were employed for thousands of studio recordings in the 1960s and early 1970s, including several hundred Top 40 hits.

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These Boots Are Made for Walkin'

"These Boots Are Made for Walkin' is a hit song written by Lee Hazlewood and recorded by Nancy Sinatra.

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Thomas Dunne Books

Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press, a division of Macmillan Publishers, publishes popular trade fiction and nonfiction.

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To Know Him Is to Love Him

"To Know Him Is to Love Him" is a song written by Phil Spector, inspired by words on his father's tombstone, "To Know Him Was To Love Him." It was first recorded by the only vocal group of which he was a member,.

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Tommy Tedesco

Thomas J. Tedesco (July 3, 1930 – November 10, 1997) was an American guitarist and studio musician in Hollywood.

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Top 40

In the music industry, the top 40 is the current, 40 most-popular songs in a particular genre.

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Torn Curtain

Torn Curtain is a 1966 American political thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Paul Newman and Julie Andrews.

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Twelve-string guitar

The 12-string guitar is a steel-string guitar with 12 strings in six courses, which produces a richer, more ringing tone than a standard six-string guitar.

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Vintage Guitar (magazine)

Vintage Guitar magazine is a consumer publication that focuses on vintage and classic fretted instruments, amplifiers, effects, and related gear, as well as notable players from all genres and eras.

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Wall of Sound

The Wall of Sound (also called the Spector Sound) is a music production formula developed by American record producer Phil Spector at Gold Star Studios in the 1960s, with assistance from engineer Larry Levine and the session musician conglomerate later known as "the Wrecking Crew".

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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52nd Street (Manhattan)

52nd Street is a long one-way street traveling west to east across Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Pitman

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