In the studio, there are session musicians and then there’s the Wrecking Crew, a collective of session musicians who backed hundreds of chart-topping hits throughout the 1960s and ’70s.

The documentary The Wrecking Crew (out on Blu-ray and DVD Tuesday) chronicles the history of an iconic group of Los Angeles men and women who played with some of the greatest musicians in pop and ...

In Motown, there was the Funk Brothers. And in Los Angeles, it was The Wrecking Crew. The Southern California session players were big in the ’60s and ’70s and performed on hundreds of Top 40 ...

Bill Pitman, a guitarist and bassist in the legendary Wrecking Crew of Los Angeles session musicians, has died at the age of 102. The New York Times confirmed Pitman died Thursday at his home in ...