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Due to producer Terry Melcher's initial lack of confidence in the Byrds' musicianship, McGuinn was the only Byrd to play on both "Mr. Tambourine Man" and its B-side, "I Knew I'd Want You."[59] Rather than using band members, Melcher hired the Wrecking Crew. Much of the track's arrangement and final mixdown was modeled after Brian Wilson's production work for the Beach Boys' "Don't Worry Baby"

From Wikipedia: As on their previous hit single, their new producer, Stuart Scharf, also employed session musicians to create the instrumental backing track while the group members provided lead and background vocals. This was the first hit they recorded in Los Angeles—all of their previous records were cut in New York with Jerry Ross producing. Session players on this recording included Max Bennett on bass; Larry Knechtel on piano; Mike Deasy on guitar; Hal Blaine on drums.

Producer Lee Hazlewood liked using The Wrecking Crew.

The song was produced by Bones Howe, who would later work on most of the hits for the 5th Dimension. Hal Blaine was used a lot by Bones and was used extensively on many 5th Dimension recordings.

From Wikipedia: Written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, first recorded in 1968 by the New York City-based trio the Will-O-Bees (Janet Blossom, Steven Porter, and Robert Merchanthouse), who regularly performed Mann/Weil compositions. After Cass Elliot had a hit in the summer of 1969 with Mann/Weil's "It's Getting Better", she recorded "Make Your Own Kind of Music" as the follow-up single, and her album Bubblegum, Lemonade, and... Something for Mama was re-released as "Make Your Own Kind Of Music/It's Getting Better," the title cut having been added to the original track listing. However, Elliot's "Make Your Own Kind of Music" single only reached No. 36.

From Wikipedia: Written by John Phillips. The song was produced and released in May 1967 by Phillips and Lou Adler, who used it to promote their Monterey International Pop Music Festival held in June of that year. John Phillips played guitar on the recording and session musician Gary L. Coleman played orchestra bells and chimes. The bass line of the song was supplied by session musician Joe Osborn. Hal Blaine played drums. The song became one of the best-selling singles of the 60s in the world.

From Wikipedia: According to song's composer P.F. Sloan, the network that licensed Danger Man, CBS, solicited publishers to contribute a 15-second piece of music for the opening of the U.S. show to replace the British theme, an instrumental titled "High Wire". Sloan wrote the guitar lick and the first few lines of the song, with Steve Barri contributing to the chorus. This fragment was recorded as a demo, submitted to CBS, and, to Sloan's surprise, picked as the theme, which led to Sloan and Barri writing a full-length version of the song. The original demo of the song used the "Danger Man" title, as shown by the surviving demo of the song, which Sloan sang. The show's title was changed, lyrics also changed. Ultimately, "High Wire" was also retained by CBS, as it played over the episode credits following the "Secret Agent" titles.

Bobby Darin goes folky on this '66 release. The album prior to this one featured show tunes.

Featuring the Wrecking Crew. Produced by Lee Hazelwood. The first of 5 "solo" LP's that Hal would release.

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From Wikipedia: In 1965, Pell went into the studio with members of The Wrecking Crew and recorded "No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's In)," a song based on music used in an Alka-Seltzer TV commercial.^[2]

When the single became a hit, Liberty Records needed the T-Bones to go on the road to promote it, but the original session musicians weren't willing to go. They were making a considerable amount of money doing sessions in Los Angeles. So Liberty created a different "public" T-Bones group to appear on record covers, TV, and in concert.

Today's P!TBBB (episode 554, March 21, 2019) features two solid hours of music with the late great Hal Blaine on drums. Hal died on March 11th at the age of 90. John Lennon's Rock 'N' Roll album was produced by Phil Spector, (until in ran off with the tapes). Hal played tandem drums (something he usually didn't like doing) along with Jim Keltner.