hey everybody how you doin it's Bruce here with traveling with Bruce welcome
to my daily my fifth daily number five November the 28th 2017 it's a Tuesday
and today finding out on Twitter that what's trending today the Grammys the
Grammy nominations have been made and oh the Twitterverse is all excited about
all the nominees but I thought I'd talk to you today about the Grammys you don't
know because I'm gonna suggest and I'm going to surmise that most of you are
under 40 out there most of you that are watching me although a number of you are
older I even had fans that are eight years old
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straight the Grammys today it's all about the Grammys well I want to talk to
you about the Grammys from a few years ago most of you all know this story so
that's what I'm Italian in 1964 The Beatles hit the stage on the Ed Sullivan
Theater on The Ed Sullivan Show it became known across the United States
big time they were already massively popular in England in the United Kingdom
and they were quite popular in Europe now they'd already had a number-one
record if not more than one number one record in Britain already nothing in the
United States but when they came to Ed Sullivan they had a number one single
already on the charts and within I think a week of being in the u.s. or two they
had the 1964 five records in the top five at the same time on the top-100
countdown over the history of the Beatles as a as a group as far as
America is concerned miss Abbey from about say I'm looking at some notes here
so forgive me from about January 64 until May 1970 the Beatles had a total
of 45 songs that were top 40 hits 45 31 of those became top-ten hits 30 1 out of
45 became top tens and out of the 31 that became top tens 20 became No
one songs 20 in 1964 the year that they broke into the big time in the United
States they had 19 songs in the top 40 on the charts in 1964 and they had five
number-one hits five number ones in 1964 over the lifetime of the Beatles from
again from 65 to or 64 to 70 the Grammys awarded the Beatles five Grammys that's
it five Grammys to the greatest band of all time number one selling artists
influenced everybody left right and center made hundreds of stars from just
being the Beatles I mean Billy Joel Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers you name you
name cos ilion's of groups out there individual artists who became artists
because of the Beatles and the Grammys soft fit in the in the six years that
they dominated music they were given five Grammys my respect for the Grammys
not so much I've never forgotten just an old guy I don't forget that sort of
stuff and they don't forgive him for it today they might well be hip and cool
and with it and on the scene and everything else they're run by totally
different people of course they're run by the generation that runs music today
but back in the 60s there was such a bias against pop stars all kinds of
genres unless you were a Hollywood producer producing for Broadway
you know orchestra music the Grammys have a chance and yet you know those in
the music business always viewed the Grammys as the gold standard of awards
hmm one other thing about the Grammys you ever heard of a group called the
wrecking crew most of you haven't heard about the group called the Wrecking Crew
but let me tell you a secret this group they won seven grannies in a
row for record of the year he have never heard of him
record of the year seven years in a row the Wrecking Crew who are the Wrecking
Crew a bunch of studio musicians in Los Angeles that were working with people
like Phil Spector working with the the the people like the Beach Boys the
Monkees David Cassidy artists of any renown were connected to the Wrecking
Crew the Wrecking Crew were responsible for recording the music in studio for
Herb Alpert at least at least six albums the Beach Boys the crystals Jan and Dean
the Ronettes Dean Martin everybody loves somebody his number one hit was recorded
by the musicians the Wrecking Crew because it was a throw-in song a last
minute to fill out an album that he was doing they didn't know what to they
needed one more song and they had this everybody loves somebody thing lying
around and Martin wasn't sure his producer said well let's just give it a
try let's get these guys in here the Wrecking Crew guys we can whip this off
in an hour they did number one hit for Dean Martin is one of his most famous
songs the Righteous Brothers you lost that loving feeling the most played song
on the history of radio you lost that love and feeling by the Righteous
Brothers the wrecking crew were the musicians for that song that's the
Wrecking Crew one of the members was Glen Campbell
another one was Leon Russell he just passed away this past year Carol Kaye
Tommy tadesco Hal Blaine to name a few other people most of which you don't
know you don't know these people are a couple more artists Johnny rivers the
Byrds Gary Lewis and the playboys the Mamas and the Papas here to them
unbelievable Barry McGuire Sonny and Cher
and Sonny and Cher and shares a solo artist as well by the way who else I
can't Turner Simon and Garfunkel Frank Sinatra
and Nancy Sinatra both used the wrecking crew Frank Sinatra used them for
strangers in the ninth number-one hit Nancy Sinatra used them for these boots
are made for walkin number one hit the Association the fifth dimension Frank
and Nancy Sinatra something stupid number one hip Gary Puckett and the
Union Gap Paul Revere and the Raiders I much I once met Paul Revere that's a
story for another day the grass roots Glen Campbell of course
he went from the session musician with the wrecking crew to become a solo
artist in his own right he had his own television show he was surrounded by
unbelievable musicians when he played live but when it was time for Glen
Campbell to make an album what did he do back to Los Angeles to the studio grab
the kids from the Wrecking Crew and make an album in like a couple of days with
the wrecking crew and then back on the road with his musicians playing all the
songs they just recorded with the wrecking crew he had to teach his
musicians how to play how the record how the Wrecking Crew played it for him
that's how good these guys work unbelievable
anyone else here Tommy row the carpenters Neil Diamond mark Lindsay the
Partridge Family shared on our own as I said the
grassroots risks reading this list off unbelievable Johnny rivers if I've
already made to the few I apologize captain and Tennille so this is just a
smattering of some of the artists that these guys played for and they knocked
off number one hits like you wouldn't believe it was the 60s of the 70s you
knew who the Wrecking Crew was but the Grammys weren't going to tell you that I
don't know if the Grammys have ever honored the Wrecking Crew I don't know
if they've ever ever honored them you know what I don't care the grannies to
me just don't have legitimacy and in a serious way for me they blew it back in
the 60s when they ignored the the musicians that were making music and
frankly the musicians that carried the music industry and made it possible for
our other entities to survive were groups like the Beatles and The Rolling
Stones and others they had the milk multi-million selling albums and it was
their dollars that kept the music business rolling right along and it
allowed the Grammys to keep ignoring them and just kind of shut them away
over to the side it's not serious music we're not gonna pay attention to it
oh how things changed over time but man it was frustrating as a kid as a
teenager in the 60s to go through that to be just snubbed by the establishment
of the Grammys of history that's pretty bad anyway that's another story another
day anyway that's my story for today it's my fifth daily a little bit of
music history for us some of it frustrating some of it satisfying I hope
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