Having played on literally thousands of studio sessions before her disenchantment with the scene led to a “selective retirement” from recording in 1970, hardly an hour of airtime passes without hearing Carol Kaye's low-register contributions to the golden age of pop. Her credits are enough to humble even the greatest names in music.
That's her on the Beach Boys legendary Pet Sounds album, on records by Ray Charles, Glen Campbell, Sonny & Cher, the themes from Mission: Impossible and M*A*S*H, scores for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Thomas Crown Affair – and those aren't even a fraction of her sprawling discography.
