Carol Kaye The most prolific bassist you've never heard of
Carol Kaye. Cutting her teeth in Fifties jazz clubs and breaking out as a studio guitarist for hitmakers like Sam Cooke, Kaye went on to become the most recorded bassist of all time — with more than 10,000 tracks under her belt. From the sunny swing of the Beach Boys' 1965 track "Help Me, Rhonda" to Richie Valens' now-classic 1958.
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Carol Kaye. Think "Extensive". Willie G. Moseley. 0. Studio work, ca. 1971. Contrary to what some aspiring bass players might think, the world's most recorded electric bassist isn't some modern-day L.A. dude purveying "NAMM chops" (to quote John Pattitucci) aplenty with the thumb and fingers of both hands flying all over his instrument.
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March 24, 2023 By Tim Dillinger Photo: GAB Archive/Redferns When guitarist/bassist Carol Kaye took her first gig as a session player in 1957 for a Sam Cooke session, she simply saw herself as a.
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News Carol Kaye on her 10 greatest recordings: "It wasn't like we were making doughnuts. We were making records, and a lot of them were hits" By Joe Bosso last updated 25 July 2023 Classic interview: the most recorded bassist in history on here personal highlights (Image credit: GAB Archive / Getty)
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Love Child, Baby Love, Stop In The Name Of Love, Back In My Arms Again, You Can't Hurry Love, My World Is Empty Without You, Reflections, Love Is Here And Now You're Gone, You're All I Need To Get By etc. - Supremes. GIT On Broadway TV Show - Diana Ross/Temptations cut 1969 NBC, Al Lapin contractor.
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Brian Wilson: "Carol, you're the greatest d--- bass player in the world". Merv Griffin: "I love Carol Kaye, she's the best." Lou Rawls: "Carol played great on all my hits (60's) and she was cool." Howard Roberts: "Carol, you're the greatest." Jazz singer Joe Williams: "Carol Kaye, as black as she wants to be."
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This is a partial list of albums and songs that bassist Carol Kaye played on. Summertime - Sam Cooke (1957) Donna - Ritchie Valens (1958) [4] La Bamba - Ritchie Valens (1958) [5] Almost In Your Arms - Sam Cooke (1958) [6] Pink Shoe Laces - Dodie Stevens (1959) Smooth Operator - Sarah Vaughan (1959) Hully Gully - The Olympics (1959)
Carol Kaye playing bass with the Wrecking Crew 1960s r/OldSchoolCool
Carol Kaye is a pioneering bassist and guitarist who started in the West Coast jazz clubs Kaye is a pioneer in creating bass style and is recognized and endorsed as a lead in bass teaching for decades. She's still teaching on Skype as well as writing, producing, and publishing educational bass and guitars books and courses.
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The Wrecking Crew (2008) - Meet Carol Kaye, Legendary BassistCarol Kaye (nee Smith, born March 24, 1935) is an American musician, who is one of the most prol.
Pioneering Bassist and Guitarist Carol Kaye Surveys Her Career in Music
Spotlight On: Legendary Bassist Carol Kaye Published February 09, 2016 by Alison Richter Interviews Carol Kaye (1970). Photo by: Michael Ochs Archives Getty Images. Carol Kaye's discography reads like the Encyclopedia Britannica of the music industry, with entries covering every genre and style. Her studio career began on a Sam Cooke session.
Pioneering Bassist and Guitarist Carol Kaye Surveys Her Career in Music
Carol Kaye, born March 24, 1939, is one of the world's most notable bass guitar session musicians in pop and rock and roll music. According to the PremierGuitar, she has played bass on over 10,000.
Pioneering Bassist and Guitarist Carol Kaye Surveys Her Career in Music
Carol Kaye (née Smith; [1] born March 24, 1935) [2] is an American musician. She is one of the most prolific recorded bass guitarists in rock and pop music, playing on an estimated 10,000 recordings in a career spanning over 65 years. [3]
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Some viewers might have assumed that Carol Kaye, the legendary studio bassist who was part of the so-called Wrecking Crew in the 1960s, would be flattered by having a character loosely.
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published 23 April 2020 How the history of popular music changed in 1963 when A-list studio guitarist Carol Kaye was asked to fill in on bass (Image credit: GAB Archive/Redferns via Getty Images) It is nearly impossible to select a recording from the 1950s into the 1970s that doesn't feature Carol Kaye.
Session Musician Carol Kaye (Bassist on Good Vibrations, The Mission
In 2021, Carol was voted the 15th greatest bass player of all time in a MusicRadar poll and she remains a prolific force, running a production company, writing her memoirs and mobilising thousands of musicians via her bass tutorial books and Skype lessons. But it's the tunes that will be her lasting legacy. "You know how it is," she mused recently.
Carol Kaye. She played bass on many records we all know though most
An expert on '50s and '60s popular music, Professor Wright dug deep into primary sources to try to resolve claims made by the noted session bassist Carol Kaye, now 86, that some of her hit basslines had been wrongly attributed to the late James Jamerson.