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Session musician

Index Session musician

Session musicians, studio musicians, or backing musicians are musicians hired to perform in recording sessions or live performances. [1]

104 relations: Accordion, Acoustic guitar, Action News, Advertising, Al Ham, American Sound Studio, Anita Kerr, Backing track, Bandleader, Barry Beckett, Bass guitar, Bob Moore, Booker T. & the M.G.'s, Boots Randolph, Brass instrument, Buddy Harman, Capital Cities/ABC Inc., Carole King, Charles Fox (composer), Charlie McCoy, Chet Atkins, Coca-Cola, Compass Point All Stars, Craig Doerge, Danny Kortchmar, David Crosby, David Hood, Detroit, Double bass, Drum kit, Eddie Floyd, Elvis Presley, Floyd Cramer, Grady Martin, Green Onions, Guitar, Hank Garland, Hargus "Pig" Robbins, Harold Bradley, Hee Haw, Hitsville U.S.A., I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony), Isaac Hayes, Jackie Wilson, Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Jimmy Johnson (musician), Kris Kristofferson, Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles, Leland Sklar, ..., Los Angeles, Mandolin, Memphis, Tennessee, MFSB, Million Dollar Band (country music group), Motown, Move Closer to Your World, Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, Muscle Shoals, Alabama, Music industry, Musical ensemble, Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum, Nashville sound, Nashville, Tennessee, New York City, Offstage musicians and singers in popular music, Otis Redding, Pete Drake, Philadelphia, Piano, Record label, Recording studio, Roger Hawkins (drummer), Russ Kunkel, Salsoul Orchestra, Sam & Dave, Sigma Sound Studios, Solo (music), Soul music, Soul Train, Stax Records, Steve Cropper, String instrument, Studio recording, Talent agent, The Andantes, The Funk Brothers, The Hillside Singers, The Jordanaires, The Memphis Horns, The Nashville A-Team, The New Seekers, The Ron Hicklin Singers, The Section (band), The Staple Singers, The Wrecking Crew (music), The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best-Kept Secret, Theatre, Tommy Jackson (musician), Troubadour (West Hollywood, California), TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia), Warren Zevon, Woodwind instrument, (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher. Expand index (54 more) »

Accordion

Accordions (from 19th-century German Akkordeon, from Akkord—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type, colloquially referred to as a squeezebox.

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Acoustic guitar

An acoustic guitar is a guitar that produces sound acoustically by transmitting the vibration of the strings to the air—as opposed to relying on electronic amplification (see electric guitar).

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Action News

Action News is a local television newscast format originating in the United States.

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Advertising

Advertising is an audio or visual form of marketing communication that employs an openly sponsored, non-personal message to promote or sell a product, service or idea.

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Al Ham

Albert W. Ham (1925–2001) was an American composer and jingle writer.

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American Sound Studio

American Sound Studio was a recording studio located at 827 Thomas Street in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Anita Kerr

Anita Jean Grilli (born October 13, 1927), known professionally as Anita Kerr, is an American singer, arranger, composer, conductor, pianist, and music producer.

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Backing track

A backing track is an audio recording on audiotape, CD or a digital recording medium or a MIDI recording of synthesized instruments, sometimes of purely rhythmic accompaniment, often of a rhythm section or other accompaniment parts that live musicians play along with or sing along to.

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Bandleader

A bandleader is the leader of a music group such as a rock or pop group or jazz quartet.

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Barry Beckett

Barry Edward Beckett (February 4, 1943 – June 10, 2009) was a keyboardist, session musician, record producer, and studio founder.

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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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Bob Moore

Bob Loyce Moore (born November 30, 1932) is an American session musician, orchestra leader, and bassist who was a member of the Nashville A-Team during the 1950s and 1960s.

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Booker T. & the M.G.'s

Booker T. & the M.G.'s is an instrumental R&B/funk band that was influential in shaping the sound of Southern soul and Memphis soul.

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Boots Randolph

Homer Louis "Boots" Randolph III (June 3, 1927 – July 3, 2007) was an American musician best known for his 1963 saxophone hit "Yakety Sax" (which became Benny Hill's signature tune).

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Brass instrument

A brass instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by sympathetic vibration of air in a tubular resonator in sympathy with the vibration of the player's lips.

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Buddy Harman

Murrey Mizell "Buddy" Harman, Jr. (December 23, 1928 – August 21, 2008) was an American country music session musician.

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Capital Cities/ABC Inc.

Capital Cities/ABC Inc., founded as Capital Cities Communications, and sometimes referred to as CapCities, was an American media company.

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Carole King

Carole King (born Carol Joan Klein, February 9, 1942) is an American composer and singer-songwriter.

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Charles Fox (composer)

Charles Ira Fox (born October 30, 1940) is an American composer for film and television.

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Charlie McCoy

Charles Ray McCoy (born March 28, 1941 in Oak Hill, West Virginia) is a Grammy-winning American session musician noted mainly for his harmonica performance, but also for his skill on a wide variety of instruments.

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Chet Atkins

Chester Burton "Chet" Atkins (June 20, 1924 – June 30, 2001), known as "Mr.

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Coca-Cola

Coca-Cola, or Coke (also Pemberton's Cola at certain Georgian vendors), is a carbonated soft drink produced by The Coca-Cola Company.

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Compass Point All Stars

The Compass Point phenomenon was designed to be to reggae-based pop/rock music of the 1980s, what Nashville was to country music, or the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section was to soul and R&B in the 1960s: a recording facility animated by in-house sets of artists, musicians, producers and engineers, all dedicated to a specific and highly recognisable sound and style.

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Craig Doerge

Craig Doerge (born 1947 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American keyboard player, songwriter and session musician.

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Danny Kortchmar

Daniel Kortchmar (born April 6, 1946) is an American guitarist, session musician, producer and songwriter.

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David Crosby

David Van Cortlandt Crosby (born August 14, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.

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David Hood

David Hood (born September 21, 1943) is a bassist from Muscle Shoals, Alabama.

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Detroit

Detroit is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan, the largest city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of Wayne County.

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Double bass

The double bass, or simply the bass (and numerous other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra.

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Drum kit

A drum kit — also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums — is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments, typically cymbals, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player, with drumsticks held in both hands, and the feet operating pedals that control the hi-hat cymbal and the beater for the bass drum.

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Eddie Floyd

Edward Lee "Eddie" Floyd (born June 25, 1937) is an American soul-R&B singer and songwriter, best known for his work on the Stax record label in the 1960s and 1970s including the number 1 R&B hit song "Knock on Wood".

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Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was an American singer and actor.

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Floyd Cramer

Floyd Cramer (October 27, 1933 – December 31, 1997) was an American Hall of Fame pianist who was one of the architects of the Nashville sound.

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Grady Martin

Thomas Grady Martin (January 17, 1929 – December 3, 2001) was an American session guitarist in country music and rockabilly.

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Green Onions

"Green Onions" is an instrumental composition recorded in 1962 by Booker T. & the M.G.'s.

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Guitar

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

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Hank Garland

Walter Louis "Hank" Garland (11 November 1930 – 27 December 2004) was a studio musician who performed with Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Patsy Cline, Moon Mullican, Brenda Lee, Roy Orbison, and Patti Page.

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Hargus "Pig" Robbins

Hargus Melvin "Pig" Robbins (born January 18, 1938, in Spring City, Tennessee) is an American session keyboard, and piano player.

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Harold Bradley

Harold Bradley (born January 2, 1926), also known as Harold Ray Bradley, is an American country and pop guitarist and entrepreneur.

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Hee Haw

Hee Haw was an American television variety show featuring country music and humor with the fictional rural "Kornfield Kounty" as a backdrop.

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Hitsville U.S.A.

"Hitsville U.S.A." is the nickname given to Motown's first headquarters.

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I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony)

"I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony)" is a pop song that originated as the jingle "Buy the World a Coke" in the groundbreaking 1971 "Hilltop" television commercial for Coca-Cola.

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Isaac Hayes

Isaac Lee Hayes Jr. (August 20, 1942 – August 10, 2008) was an American singer-songwriter, actor, voice actor and producer.

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Jackie Wilson

Jack Leroy "Jackie" Wilson Jr. (June 9, 1934 – January 21, 1984) was an American soul singer and performer.

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Jackson Browne

Clyde Jackson Browne (born October 9, 1948) is an American singer-songwriter and musician who has sold over 18 million albums in the United States.

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James Taylor

James Vernon Taylor (born March 12, 1948) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.

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Jimmy Johnson (musician)

Jimmy Johnson (born February 4, 1943, Sheffield, Alabama) is a member of the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section who was attached to FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, for a period in the 1960s.

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Kris Kristofferson

Kristoffer Kristofferson (born June 22, 1936) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and actor.

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Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles

Laurel Canyon is a mountainous neighborhood/canyon located in the Hollywood Hills region of the Santa Monica Mountains, in the Hollywood Hills West district of Los Angeles, California.

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Leland Sklar

Leland Bruce Sklar (born May 28, 1947) is an American musician.

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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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Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis is a city located along the Mississippi River in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee.

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MFSB

MFSB, officially standing for "Mother Father Sister Brother", was a pool of more than thirty studio musicians based at Philadelphia’s famed Sigma Sound Studios.

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Million Dollar Band (country music group)

The Million Dollar Band was an all-star group of session musicians that often performed on the Hee Haw television variety show from August 1980 through November 1988.

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Motown

Motown is an American record company.

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Move Closer to Your World

Move Closer to Your World (MCTYW) is a television news music package composed in 1972 by jingle writer Al Ham under his Mayoham Music label.

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Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section

The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, also known as the Swampers, is a group of American studio musicians playing soul, R&B, rock and roll and country, based in the city of Muscle Shoals, Alabama.

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Muscle Shoals, Alabama

Muscle Shoals is the largest city in Colbert County, Alabama, United States.

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Music industry

The music industry consists of the companies and individuals that earn money by creating new songs and pieces and selling live concerts and shows, audio and video recordings, compositions and sheet music, and the organizations and associations that aid and represent music creators.

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Musical ensemble

A musical ensemble, also known as a music group or musical group, is a group of people who perform instrumental or vocal music, with the ensemble typically known by a distinct name.

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Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum

The Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum (MHOF) honors all musicians regardless of genre or instrument.

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Nashville sound

The Nashville sound originated during the mid 1950s as a subgenre of American country music, replacing the chart dominance of the rough honky tonk music which was most popular in the 1940s and 1950s with "smooth strings and choruses", "sophisticated background vocals" and "smooth tempos".

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Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the seat of Davidson County.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Offstage musicians and singers in popular music

Offstage musicians and singers are performers who play instruments and/or sing backstage, out of sight of the audience, during a live popular music concert at which the main band is visible playing and singing onstage.

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Otis Redding

Otis Ray Redding Jr. (September 9, 1941 – December 10, 1967) was an American singer, songwriter, record producer, arranger, and talent scout.

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Pete Drake

Roddis Franklin "Pete" Drake (October 8, 1932 – July 29, 1988) was a Nashville-based American record producer and pedal steel guitar player.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863.

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Piano

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700 (the exact year is uncertain), in which the strings are struck by hammers.

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Record label

A record label, or record company, is a brand or trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos.

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Recording studio

A recording studio is a specialized facility for sound recording, mixing, and audio production of instrumental or vocal musical performances, spoken words, and other sounds.

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Roger Hawkins (drummer)

Roger Hawkins (born October 16, 1945) is an American drummer best known for playing as part of the studio backing band known as the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section (Also known as the Swampers) of Alabama.

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Russ Kunkel

Russell Kunkel (born September 27, 1948) is an American drummer and producer who has worked as a session musician with many well-known artists, including Linda Ronstadt, James Taylor, Dan Fogelberg, Stephen Stills, Harry Chapin, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Stevie Nicks, Carole King, Jackson Browne, Joe Walsh, Neil Diamond, Glenn Frey, and Carly Simon.

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Salsoul Orchestra

The Salsoul Orchestra was the backing band of session musicians for many acts on New York City label, Salsoul Records and, under its own name, recorded several hit singles and albums between 1975 and 1982.

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Sam & Dave

Sam & Dave were an American soul and R&B duo who performed together from 1961 until 1981.

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Sigma Sound Studios

Sigma Sound Studios was a recording studio in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Solo (music)

In music, a solo (from the solo, meaning alone) is a piece or a section of a piece played or sung featuring a single performer, who may be performing completely alone or supported by an accompanying instrument such as a piano or organ, a continuo group (in Baroque music), or the rest of a choir, orchestra, band, or other ensemble.

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Soul music

Soul music (often referred to simply as soul) is a popular music genre that originated in the African American community in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Soul Train

Soul Train is an American music-dance television program which aired in syndication from October 2, 1971 to March 27, 2006.

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Stax Records

Stax Records is an American record label, originally based in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Steve Cropper

Steven Lee Cropper (born October 21, 1941) is an American guitarist, songwriter and record producer.

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String instrument

String instruments, stringed instruments, or chordophones are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when the performer plays or sounds the strings in some manner.

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Studio recording

The term studio recording means any recording made in a studio, as opposed to a live recording, which is usually made in a concert venue or a theatre, with an audience attending the performance.

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Talent agent

A talent agent, or booking agent, is a person who finds jobs for actors, authors, film directors, musicians, models, professional athletes, writers, screenwriters, broadcast journalists, and other professionals in various entertainment or broadcast businesses.

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The Andantes

The Andantes were an American female session group for the Motown record label during the 1960s.

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The Funk Brothers

The Funk Brothers were a group of Detroit-based session musicians who performed the backing to most Motown recordings from 1959 until the company moved to Los Angeles in 1972.

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The Hillside Singers

The Hillside Singers were an American folk group.

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The Jordanaires

The Jordanaires were an American vocal quartet that formed as a gospel group in 1948.

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The Memphis Horns

The Memphis Horns were an American horn section made famous by their many appearances on Stax Records.

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The Nashville A-Team

The Nashville A-Team was a nickname given to a group of session musicians in Nashville, Tennessee, who earned wide acclaim in the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s.

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The New Seekers

The New Seekers are a British-based pop group, formed in 1969 by Keith Potger after the break-up of his group, the Seekers.

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The Ron Hicklin Singers

The Ron Hicklin Singers were a group of Los Angeles studio singers contracted and organized by Ron Hicklin.

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The Section (band)

The Section were a US instrumental rock band formed in the early 1970s by musicians Danny Kortchmar, Craig Doerge, Leland Sklar, and Russ Kunkel.

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The Staple Singers

The Staple Singers were an American gospel, soul and R&B singing group.

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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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The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best-Kept Secret

The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best Kept-Secret is a 2012 book by Kent Hartman about the Wrecking Crew, one of the most successful groups of studio musicians in music history, who played anonymously on many popular recordings in Los Angeles in the 1960s.

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Theatre

Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers, typically actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage.

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Tommy Jackson (musician)

Thomas Lee "Tommy" Jackson, Jr. (March 31, 1926 – December 9, 1979) was an American fiddle player, regarded as "one of the finest commercial fiddle players of all time".

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Troubadour (West Hollywood, California)

The Troubadour is a nightclub located in West Hollywood, California, United States, at 9081 Santa Monica Boulevard just east of Doheny Drive and the border of Beverly Hills.

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TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia)

"TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia)" is a 1974 hit recording by MFSB (Mother, Father, Sister, Brother) featuring vocals by The Three Degrees.

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Warren Zevon

Warren William Zevon (January 24, 1947 – September 7, 2003) was an American rock singer-songwriter and musician.

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Woodwind instrument

Woodwind instruments are a family of musical instruments within the more general category of wind instruments.

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(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher

"(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher" is an R&B song written by Gary Jackson, Carl Smith, R. Miner, and Raynard Miner, and produced by Carl Davis.

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References

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

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