‘The Wrecking Crew’ Returns to Nashville for Two Special Engagements

Film about legendary group of West Coast Studio Musicians, at hit at Nashville Film
Festival and Festivals Nationwide, returns to Music City -- with non-profit status -- for
Screenings at the Belcourt and NAMM.

NASHVILLE, Tennessee -- July 8, 2011 -- They were the studio musicians behind some of the
biggest hits in the 1960s and 70s. From “Be My Baby” to “California Girls;” “Strangers in the
Night” to “Mrs. Robinson;” “You’ve Lost that Lovin’ Feelin’” to “Up, Up and Away;” and from
“Viva Las Vegas” to “Mr. Tambourine Man,” the group dubbed The Wrecking Crew played on
them all. Six years in a row in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s, the Grammy for “Record of the
Year” went to Wrecking Crew member recordings.
But like the Funk Brothers at Motown, who finally got the credit they deserved with the film
“Standing in the Shadows of Motown,” the story of the Wrecking Crew and its influence on the
West Coast Sound and pop music has largely gone untold. Until now.
“The Wrecking Crew,” a documentary film produced and directed by Denny Tedesco, son of
legendary late Wrecking Crew guitarist Tommy Tedesco, was a sensation at the closing night
of the 2008 Nashville Film Festival and went on to win the hearts (and ears) of filmgoers at
every subsequent festival. It now returns to Nashville for two special engagements: Thursday,
July 21, 2011 at 7 p.m. at the Belcourt Theatre, and Saturday, July 23, 2011 at 1:30 p.m. at
the Nashville Convention Center as part of the NAMM show.

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