Joe Osborn
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Joseph Osborn was an American bass guitar player known for his work as a session musician in Los Angeles with the Wrecking Crew and in Nashville with the A-Team of studio musicians from the 1960s thro
Osborn in 2012
Osborn in 2012.
The Wrecking Crew (music)
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The Wrecking Crew was a loose collective of American session musicians based in Los Angeles who played on many studio recordings in the 1960s and 1970s, including hundreds of top 40 hits, but rarely c
Joe Osborn
…Joseph Osborn (August 28, 1937 – December 14, 2018) was an American bass guitar player known for his work as a session musician in Los Angeles with the Wrecking Crew and in Nashville with the A-Team of studio musicians from the 1960s through the 1980s, playing on thousands of recordings (and hundreds of hit records…
Members of the Wrecking Crew employed for a session at Gold Star Studios in the 1960s Seated left to right: Don Randi, Al De Lory, Carol Kaye, Bill Pitman, Tommy Tedesco, Irving Rubins, Roy Caton, Jay Migliori, Hal Blaine, Steve Douglas, and Ray Pohlman
Hal Blaine, probably in 1995. He was one of the "first call" drummers in Los Angeles during the 1960s and early 1970s and is usually credited with popularizing the name "Wrecking Crew".
Guitarist Barney Kessel was an early member of the Wrecking Crew