Carol Kaye Bass Catch

Carol Kaye (born March 24, 1935) is an American musician, best known as one of the most prolific and widely heard bass guitarists in history, playing on an estimated 10,000 recording sessions in a 55 year career.[1]

As a session musician, Kaye was the bassist on many Phil Spector and Brian Wilson productions in the 1960s and 1970s. She played guitar on Ritchie Valens' "La Bamba" and is credited with the bass tracks on several Simon & Garfunkel hits and many film scores by Quincy Jones and Lalo Schifrin. Among her most often cited work Kaye anchored the Beach Boys' album Pet Sounds.

Throughout the 1960s, she played bass on a significant percentage of records appearing on the Billboard Hot 100, although she was almost wholly unknown to the general public at the time. Kaye played bass on many of the Beach Boys hit recordings, including "Good Vibrations", "Help Me, Rhonda", "Sloop John B", and "California Girls". She worked on Brian Wilson's ill-fated but legendary Smile project (and was present at the "Fire" session in late November 1966 when Wilson reportedly asked the studio musicians to wear toy fire hats). Kaye's work also appears extensively on well-known television and film soundtracks from the 1960s and early 1970s.

She worked under most of the leading producers and musical directors in Los Angeles during that era, including Brian Wilson, Michel Legrand, Phil Spector, Elmer Bernstein, Lalo Schifrin, David Rose, Dave Grusin, Ernie Freeman, Hugo Montenegro, Leonard Rosenman, John Williams, Alfred Newman, David Axelrod and Lionel Newman. Kaye played the bass tracks on several of the Monkees hits, did soundtrack work (including sound effects on bass guitar) for a young Steven Spielberg and tracks for Quincy Jones whose 2001 autobiography Q noted, "... women like... Fender bass player Carol Kaye... could do anything and leave men in the dust."[3]

Kaye performed on several American television themes including the Quinn Martin produced Cannon, The Streets of San Francisco, Mission: Impossible, M*A*S*H, Kojak, Get Smart, Hogan's Heroes, The Love Boat, McCloud, Mannix, It Takes a Thief, Peyton Place and the Cosby Show. She is credited with performing on the soundtracks of Hawaii Five-O, The Addams Family and The Brady Bunch along with Ironside, Room 222, Bonanza, Wonder Woman, Alias Smith & Jones, Run for Your Life and Barnaby Jones.[4]

Beginning in 1969, she wrote How To Play The Electric Bass, the first of many bass tutoring books and DVD courses. She gave lessons to thousands of students, including John Clayton, Mike Porcaro, Alf Clausen, David Hughes, Tony Sales, Karl E. H. Seigfried, Roy Vogt and David Hungate. Kaye retired from studio work during the 1970s because of arthritis. She later became active again as a session musician, live jazz performer and teacher of both bass and guitar, giving seminars and interviews.

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[coolsweetgroovy]

Thanks I love Carol Kaye it's about time she gets inducted into the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame

[ZINCOVIX8754]

kaye a genius....great upload

[MarianaIranzi]

groovy yeah!



[slatan420]

SHE HAS THE SAME BIRTHDAY AS MY BRO!

lol

[portwoodjeff]

bootsy who?



[66modee]

Thank you Carol Kaye for making me the bassist I am today..you are the best..Melody Funk

[mosquito1958]

Quality at its best !!;)

[elvispreseli]

Amazing! I never knew about Carol Kaye until today when I heard this track played on a 7 inch single. She's been the bassline to my life""

[stefanobass75]

what a sound! great



[Khultan]

@wannawatchu66 The thing is is that although I tremendously am an avid listener of what I now call 'the unknown rockers of rock'n'roll' the reason being I was born at the close of the 60s and grew up in the 70s in San Francisco but no radio station would air past stuff only now through information sites such as Youtube is the motherload of information enlightening me. : ( I wish I knew all this shit in my teen years, I would've had a REASON to pick up a guitar and be proactive on music.