
United States,
2008
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95 min.
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Dir. Danny Tedesco
This sweet, workmanlike music documentary is built around one unimpeachably amazing fact: In the 1960s and ’70s, a freakishly high percentage of the “pop hits of the day!” were performed by one band, an informal mishmash of musicians known collectively as the Wrecking Crew. They were the Monkees, the Association, Herb Alpert’s Tijuana Brass Band, the creators of Phil Spector’s Wall of Sound, and the Beach Boys on “Good Vibrations.” Along with a tour of the band’s astonishing catalog, the film presents largely humdrum interview footage with celebrities and surviving members. (Director Denny Tedesco and drummer/subject Hal Blaine scheduled to attend.)