On My Radio Show Carol Kaye July 31st!

Carol Kaye, is an American musician, is the most prolific and widely heard bass guitarists in history, playing on an estimated 10,000 recording sessions in a 55-year career for albums, film, and TV. She taught guitar since the age of 14. Her first passion was jazz, but she made a career out of inventing lines for rock n' roll, making songs pop and creating hits. She says the execs didn't realize the session musicians were some of the best jazz guitarists in the world. She's been really inspired by Sambas and Latin music, and added those elements to a lot of records.

Her and the other session players revamped and recreated poorly imagined songs in rock's early history. She played on Beebop, Motown, Soul, Funk, and rock albums, with folks like Tina Turner, Supremes, Sonny and Cher, Ray Charles, Mel Torme, Herb Alpert, Beach Boys, Monkees, Paul Revere & Raiders, Hondels, Righteous Bros., Marketts, Sam Cooke, Ronettes, Bobby Vee, Nancy Sinatra, Mel Carter, Vickie Carr, Johnny Mathis, Leslie Gore, Dobie Gray, O.C. Smith, Chris Montez, Gary Usher, Dick Dale, Deep 6, T-Bones, Grass Roots, Ripchords, Tiny Tim Stevie Wonder, Gary Zekeley, Mel Carter, Harper's Bazaar, Hedge & Donna, Sun Rays, Gary Pickett/Union Gap, Spiral Staircase, Gary Lewis & Playboys, PF Proby, Little Richard, 4 Tops, Electric Prunes, Jan & Dean, Ike & Tina, Ventures, Zappa, Animals, Ray Charles, Kim Fowley, Parris Sisters, Santo & Johnny, New Seekers, Association, April & Nino, Beau Brummels, Paul Anka, Timi Yuro, a whole host of singers and surf and soul groups, and Joe Cocker among others. Her abridged list of credits is twenty two pages long. Carol played guitar in jazz clubs with many such biggies as Jack Sheldon, Teddy Edwards, Billy Higgins, Jimmy Smith Trio, and then later with Page Cavenaugh, Bobby Bryant, and Oliver Nelson. She played in Teddy Edwards' jazz combo with Billy Higgins and Curtis Counce in late 1957 at the Beverly Caverns club.