This jazz and studio guitar great played on hundreds of recordings — including Phil Spector's "River Deep-Mountain High" and "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'," Julie London's "Cry Me A River," and many of the Coasters' hits — and was known for beig one of the weirdest dudes in the business.
Where else but in L.A. could a major metropolitan newspaper be successfully run for decades by the town drunk?
(d) February 27th, 2006