R.i.p. Bill Pittman

[pucho812]

Bill Pittman, session guitarist out here in Hollywood has passed at a ripe age of 102. You may know him from the documentary “the wrecking crew”

 

[fallout]

102 isn't a bad run.. RIP!

 

[groselicain]

Not to make light, but I misread the thread title to say "Bill Putnam" and thought someone had really lost track of time.

 

[pucho812]

“Pitman’s guitar playing was ubiquitous, if largely anonymous, for decades beginning in the 1950s. Just a sampling of the songs he played on: The Beach Boys’ “Good Vibrations,” Frank Sinatra’s “Strangers in the Night,” Barbra Streisand’s “The Way We Were,” The Ronettes’ “Be My Baby” and The Monkees’ “Papa Gene’s Blues.” He played the ukulele on the B.J. Thomas hit “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head” from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the loping bass line for the memorable theme of late-1960s TV Western The Wild Wild West and even composed music for early episodes of Star Trek.”

 

[ruffrecords]

A long life, well lived. RIP

Ian