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A handful of players ran Los Angeles pop
The Wrecking Crew played on records across rock, pop and film Producers hired them for speed and reliability, sometimes replacing a band's own members. Their parts are on many records now considered classics. The arrangement was common before bands insisted on playing their own sessions. It sits in Mondo's music collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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