2008 documentary on the studio musicians who created some of the best pop and rock music during the 60’s and 70’s. From the Wikipedia page,
Directed by Denny Tedesco, son of guitarist Tommy Tedesco… and left out of the story was an important historical fact: the bands, in some, but not all, cases, did not play the instruments heard on their records. Instead, the task of recording the perfect tempo, pitch, and timbre fell to a small group of accomplished session musicians.
The Wrecking Crew documents the work of studio players who recorded the tracks for such hits as “California Dreamin'”, “These Boots Are Made for Walkin'”, “Be My Baby”, “The Beat Goes On”, and “Good Vibrations”.
Can’t believe I never discovered this gem of a music documentary before 2023. Outstanding look at the geniuses of this group of musicians, many of whom never got any credit for playing on the records. Fascinating. 4 out of 5.
Carol Kaye on bass guitar.
The Wrecking Crew currently streams on Amazon Prime and Hulu.
Apple TV+ series about the effect of music from the year 1971. Interesting premise for a docuseries. I decided to dive right into the women’s and LGBTQ episode. Seriously they could have and should have made an episode just for feminism. That said, they didn’t even talk about the 
I so wanted to love the new documentary, Loving Highsmith on the loves and life of author Patricia Highsmith. I’m also starting to hate giving bad reviews. But this film really missed the mark. Was there not enough content? There were way too many B-rolls of modern life which sort of connected to the story and then didn’t. Kept going back to a shot of a Texas rodeo with a calf being roped. I suppose it was meant to be a metaphor for Highsmith’s relationship with her mother? Or conversion therapy? It felt cheap. And she left Texas for New York City when she was only six years old, so the footage made no sense. There were some really wonderful one-liners, like Patricia going out to lesbian bars and having so many conquests. But the filmmakers let those fall with no follow through. The only shining star in this dud was fellow novelist, 
The third season of the docuseries, We’re Here premieres this month on HBO Max. The title refers to a chant my generation created in the 1990’s – “We’re Here, We’re Queer, Get Used to It.” You can catch the first two seasons now. The premise is familiar. Three drags queens enter a small town and transform lives with their wisdom and performance. From HBO,
Wonderful music documentary, The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart chronicling the career of the brothers Gibb, Barry, Maurice and Robin Gibb who together created The Bee Gees. Beginning in 1958 and continuing through the 1980’s, they sold over 120 million records worldwide, making them among the best-selling music artists of all time. The film documents their beginnings, the early hits, the struggles to stay together once fame hit, their pivot to disco with the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack album – the second-biggest-selling soundtrack of all time. From there they moved on to outside projects, break-ups, solo efforts, a comeback, their younger brother Andy’s death, and finally the death of two of the original band members brothers Maurice and Robin, leaving eldest brother Barry to tell the story in the film. The documentary reminded me how much I loved their music in all the different incarnations. 4 out of 5 for this lovely reminder of some of the best of 20th Century pop music.
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