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Denny Tedesco - Director And Producer Of "The Wrecking Crew", Award Winning Documentary Film, And "Immediate Family"
Episode 163
Denny Tedesco is the Director of “The Wrecking Crew”, an award winning documentary film about the group of studio musicians based on the West Coast who played on hundreds of hit records in the ‘60s and ‘70s for The Beach Boys, The Mamas And The Papas and so many more. He is also the director of another documentary called “Immediate Family”, about the studio musicians who formed the backing band for so many of the great ‘70s singer-songwriters like James Taylor, Carole King, Jackson Browne and others.
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Denny and I discuss the following:
- ‘60s music by The Wrecking Crew as the soundtrack to our lives
- Tommy Tedesco - guitarist with The Wrecking Crew
- Roundtable discussion
- Liner notes and lack of credits
- “Pet Sounds” - Beach Boys
- The Association
- Lou Adler - Mamas and Papas
- Multiple sessions per day
- 3 hours per session
- Playing live in the studio
- All “Michael Jordans”
- Social interactions among the musicians
- How they got the name
- Making the Wrecking Crew film
- Father had terminal diagnosis
- Roundtable discussion
- Broadway Danny Rose and Diner as inspiration
- Visiting his father in the studio
- Started the process in 1996
- 1998: Got Dick Clark, Cher, Nancy Sinatra
- 2006: most expensive home movie ever
- Financed on his credit cards
- Producing TimeLife infomercials to make a living
- 2008: festivals. 12 audience awards. Great reviews. But in debt
- Started selling song dedications from the movie
- Clown school dedication
- 2015: Picked up by Magnolia
- Went on NetFlix
- Influence of Wrecking Crew film on other documentaries
- Immediate Family film
- Features 3 of the 4 guys originally in The Section
- Worked with all the singer-songwriters in the 1970s
- Brought in investors
- All the stars participated in the film
- 3 festival
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